WXK71: NOAA Weather Radio, Macon
WXK71 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Macon, with the transmitter at GA Forrestry Comm., Georgia, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, GA programs it. It covers 10 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXK71 (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
- WXK71
- Frequency
- 162.475 MHz (WX3)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Macon
- Transmitter site
- GA Forrestry Comm.
- State
- Georgia
- NWS office
- Peachtree City, GA
- Location
- 32.8053, -83.5389
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bibb | Georgia | 013021 | Whole county |
| Bleckley | Georgia | 013023 | Whole county |
| Crawford | Georgia | 013079 | Whole county |
| Houston | Georgia | 013153 | Whole county |
| Jones | Georgia | 013169 | Whole county |
| Macon | Georgia | 013193 | Whole county |
| Monroe | Georgia | 013207 | Whole county |
| Peach | Georgia | 013225 | Whole county |
| Twiggs | Georgia | 013289 | Whole county |
| Wilkinson | Georgia | 013319 | 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 27, 2026 at 6:43 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.