KWO39: NOAA Weather Radio, Chicago
KWO39 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Chicago, with the transmitter at Wood Dale, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Chicago, IL programs it. It covers 5 counties in Illinois and Indiana.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KWO39 (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
- KWO39
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 300 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Chicago
- Transmitter site
- Wood Dale
- State
- Illinois
- NWS office
- Chicago, IL
- Location
- 41.8789, -87.6361
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.
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.