Weather radio in Illinois

WXJ75: NOAA Weather Radio, Springfield

162.400 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WXJ75 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Springfield, Illinois, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Lincoln, IL programs it. It covers 11 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXJ75 (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
WXJ75
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Springfield
NWS office
Lincoln, IL
Location
39.7833, -89.4461

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
CassIllinois017017Whole county
ChristianIllinois017021Whole county
De WittIllinois017039Whole county
LoganIllinois017107Whole county
MaconIllinois017115Whole county
MacoupinIllinois017117N 1/2
MasonIllinois017125Whole county
MenardIllinois017129Whole county
MontgomeryIllinois017135N 1/2
MorganIllinois017137Whole county
SangamonIllinois017167Whole 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.