Weather radio in Illinois

WXM90: NOAA Weather Radio, Jacksonville

162.525 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WXM90 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.525 MHz (WX7 on most receivers) from Jacksonville, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Lincoln, IL programs it. It covers 7 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXM90 (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
WXM90
Frequency
162.525 MHz (WX7)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Jacksonville
NWS office
Lincoln, IL
Location
39.6667, -90.3417

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
BrownIllinois017009Whole county
CalhounIllinois017013North half
CassIllinois017017Whole county
GreeneIllinois017061Whole county
MorganIllinois017137Whole county
PikeIllinois017149Whole county
ScottIllinois017171Whole 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.