Weather radio in Illinois

KXI41: NOAA Weather Radio, Crystal Lake

162.500 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KXI41 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Crystal Lake, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Chicago, IL programs it. It covers 7 counties in Illinois and Wisconsin.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KXI41 (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
KXI41
Frequency
162.500 MHz (WX6)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Crystal Lake
NWS office
Chicago, IL
Location
42.2594, -88.3625

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
BooneIllinois017007Whole county
CookIllinois017031Whole county
KaneIllinois017089Whole county
LakeIllinois017097Whole county
McHenryIllinois017111Whole county
KenoshaWisconsin055059Whole county
WalworthWisconsin055127Whole 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.