Weather radio in Illinois

WXJ71: NOAA Weather Radio, Peoria

162.475 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WXJ71 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Peoria, with the transmitter at East Peoria, Illinois, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Lincoln, IL programs it. It covers 9 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXJ71 (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
WXJ71
Frequency
162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Peoria
Transmitter site
East Peoria
NWS office
Lincoln, IL
Location
40.6289, -89.5700

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
FultonIllinois017057Whole county
KnoxIllinois017095Whole county
MarshallIllinois017123Whole county
MasonIllinois017125Whole county
McLeanIllinois017113Whole county
PeoriaIllinois017143Whole county
StarkIllinois017175Whole county
TazewellIllinois017179Whole county
WoodfordIllinois017203Whole 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 3:43 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.