Weather radio in Illinois

WXJ76: NOAA Weather Radio, Champaign

162.550 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WXJ76 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Champaign, with the transmitter at Seymour, Illinois, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Lincoln, IL programs it. It covers 9 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXJ76 (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
WXJ76
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Champaign
Transmitter site
Seymour
NWS office
Lincoln, IL
Location
40.1058, -88.4497

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
ChampaignIllinois017019Whole county
ColesIllinois017029Whole county
De WittIllinois017039Whole county
DouglasIllinois017041Whole county
EdgarIllinois017045Whole county
FordIllinois017053Whole county
MoultrieIllinois017139Whole county
PiattIllinois017147Whole county
VermilionIllinois017183Whole 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.