KEC49: NOAA Weather Radio, Monterey
KEC49 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Monterey, with the transmitter at Mt. Umunhum, California, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in San Francisco, CA programs it. It covers 9 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KEC49 (the largest dot) and the transmitters within 100 miles, colored by their status now.
- On the air
- Degraded
- Off the air
The transmitter
- Call sign
- KEC49
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 300 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Monterey
- Transmitter site
- Mt. Umunhum
- State
- California
- NWS office
- San Francisco, CA
- Location
- 37.1550, -121.8983
Counties covered
Program a SAME receiver with the code of your county. Coverage is NWS’s note of the part of a county the signal reaches.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alameda | California | 006001 | Whole county |
| Contra Costa | California | 006013 | Valleys |
| Monterey | California | 006053 | Whole county |
| Napa | California | 006055 | South |
| San Benito | California | 006069 | North |
| San Francisco | California | 006075 | Whole county |
| San Mateo | California | 006081 | Whole county |
| Santa Clara | California | 006085 | Whole county |
| Santa Cruz | California | 006087 | Whole county |
Nearby transmitters
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Sources
Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read September 26, 2026 at 11:46 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.