KXI79: NOAA Weather Radio, Hillsboro
KXI79 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.425 MHz (WX4 on most receivers) from Hillsboro, with the transmitter at Coffeen-Hillsboro, Illinois, at 312 W. The National Weather Service office in St. Louis, MO programs it. It covers 4 counties. NWS lists it as off the air now.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KXI79 (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
- KXI79
- Frequency
- 162.425 MHz (WX4)
- Power
- 312 W
- Status
- Off the air
- Station
- Hillsboro
- Transmitter site
- Coffeen-Hillsboro
- State
- Illinois
- NWS office
- St. Louis, MO
- Location
- 39.1706, -89.5121
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.