Weather radio in California

WWG21: NOAA Weather Radio, Santa Ana

162.450 MHz · 100 W · On the air

WWG21 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Santa Ana, with the transmitter at Beeks Place, California, at 100 W. The National Weather Service office in San Diego, CA programs it. It covers 3 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WWG21 (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
WWG21
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
100 W
Status
On the air
Station
Santa Ana
Transmitter site
Beeks Place
NWS office
San Diego, CA
Location
33.8176, -117.6359

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.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
OrangeCalifornia006059Whole county
RiversideCalifornia006065Far W
San BernardinoCalifornia006071SW

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 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.