WXJ73: NOAA Weather Radio, Quad Cities
WXJ73 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Quad Cities, with the transmitter at Rock Island, Illinois, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Quad Cities, IA programs it. It covers 9 counties in Iowa and Illinois.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXJ73 (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
- WXJ73
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Quad Cities
- Transmitter site
- Rock Island
- State
- Illinois
- NWS office
- Quad Cities, IA
- Location
- 41.5100, -90.5744
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.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar | Iowa | 019031 | Whole county |
| Clinton | Iowa | 019045 | Whole county |
| Louisa | Iowa | 019115 | Whole county |
| Muscatine | Iowa | 019139 | Whole county |
| Scott | Iowa | 019163 | Whole county |
| Henry | Illinois | 017073 | Whole county |
| Mercer | Illinois | 017131 | Whole county |
| Rock Island | Illinois | 017161 | Whole county |
| Whiteside | Illinois | 017195 | Whole 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 3:12 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.