KWN56: NOAA Weather Radio, Steamboat Springs
KWN56 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.525 MHz (WX7 on most receivers) from Steamboat Springs, with the transmitter at Walton Peak, Colorado, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Grand Junction, CO programs it. It covers 5 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KWN56 (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
- KWN56
- Frequency
- 162.525 MHz (WX7)
- Power
- 300 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Steamboat Springs
- Transmitter site
- Walton Peak
- State
- Colorado
- NWS office
- Grand Junction, CO
- Location
- 40.3544, -106.6989
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.
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 October 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.