Weather radio in Illinois

KZZ55: NOAA Weather Radio, Dixon

162.525 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KZZ55 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.525 MHz (WX7 on most receivers) from Dixon, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Chicago, IL programs it. It covers 5 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ55 (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
KZZ55
Frequency
162.525 MHz (WX7)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Dixon
NWS office
Chicago, IL
Location
41.8978, -89.6056

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
BureauIllinois017011Whole county
CarrollIllinois017015Whole county
LeeIllinois017103Whole county
OgleIllinois017141Whole county
WhitesideIllinois017195Whole 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 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.