Weather radio in Illinois

WXL22: NOAA Weather Radio, Princeton

162.425 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WXL22 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.425 MHz (WX4 on most receivers) from Princeton, with the transmitter at Tiskilwa, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Quad Cities, IA programs it. It covers 8 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXL22 (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
WXL22
Frequency
162.425 MHz (WX4)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Princeton
Transmitter site
Tiskilwa
NWS office
Quad Cities, IA
Location
41.2856, -89.5989

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
BureauIllinois017011Whole county
HenryIllinois017073E
La SalleIllinois017099W
LeeIllinois017103S
MarshallIllinois017123Whole county
PutnamIllinois017155Whole county
StarkIllinois017175Whole county
WhitesideIllinois017195SE

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.