Weather radio in Illinois

KZZ66: NOAA Weather Radio, Galesburg

162.400 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KZZ66 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Galesburg, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Lincoln, IL programs it. It covers 4 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ66 (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
KZZ66
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Galesburg
NWS office
Lincoln, IL
Location
40.9881, -90.3178

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
HenryIllinois017073South half
KnoxIllinois017095Whole county
MercerIllinois017131East half
WarrenIllinois017187Whole 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.