WXJ42: NOAA Weather Radio, Meriden
WXJ42 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Meriden, with the transmitter at West Peak, Connecticut, at 500 W. The National Weather Service office in New York, NY programs it. It covers 10 counties in Connecticut and New York.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXJ42 (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
- WXJ42
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 500 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Meriden
- Transmitter site
- West Peak
- State
- Connecticut
- NWS office
- New York, NY
- Location
- 41.5631, -72.8450
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield | Connecticut | 009001 | Except SW |
| Hartford | Connecticut | 009003 | Central/s |
| Litchfield | Connecticut | 009005 | Whole county |
| Middlesex | Connecticut | 009007 | Whole county |
| New Haven | Connecticut | 009009 | Whole county |
| New London | Connecticut | 009011 | West |
| Tolland | Connecticut | 009013 | Southwest |
| Windham | Connecticut | 009015 | Whole county |
| Nassau | New York | 036059 | N |
| Suffolk | New York | 036103 | NW |
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 2, 2026 at 1:38 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.