Weather radio in Hawaii

WZ2540: NOAA Weather Radio, North Kohala

162.500 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WZ2540 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from North Kohala, with the transmitter at Kamuela, Hawaii, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Honolulu, HI programs it. It covers 1 county.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WZ2540 (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
WZ2540
Frequency
162.500 MHz (WX6)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
North Kohala
Transmitter site
Kamuela
State
Hawaii
NWS office
Honolulu, HI
Location
20.1254, -155.7778

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
HawaiiHawaii015001Whole 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 October 5, 2026 at 2:29 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.