KPS506: NOAA Weather Radio, Washington
KPS506 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Washington, with the transmitter at Wilkes County, Georgia, at 319 W. The National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, GA programs it. It covers 1 county.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KPS506 (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
- KPS506
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz (WX6)
- Power
- 319 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Washington
- Transmitter site
- Wilkes County
- State
- Georgia
- NWS office
- Peachtree City, GA
- Location
- 33.7216, -82.7223
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilkes | Georgia | 013317 | 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 6:48 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.