KPS509: NOAA Weather Radio, Salmon
KPS509 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Salmon, with the transmitter at Mt Baldy, Idaho, at 100 W. The National Weather Service office in Missoula, MT programs it. It covers 1 county.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KPS509 (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
- KPS509
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz (WX6)
- Power
- 100 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Salmon
- Transmitter site
- Mt Baldy
- State
- Idaho
- NWS office
- Missoula, MT
- Location
- 45.1453, -114.0083
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lemhi | Idaho | 016059 | 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 28, 2026 at 1:53 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.