WNG730: NOAA Weather Radio, Ottumwa
WNG730 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Ottumwa, with the transmitter at Wapello County, Iowa, at 302 W. The National Weather Service office in Des Moines, IA programs it. It covers 5 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WNG730 (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
- WNG730
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz (WX6)
- Power
- 302 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Ottumwa
- Transmitter site
- Wapello County
- State
- Iowa
- NWS office
- Des Moines, IA
- Location
- 41.0241, -92.4823
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.
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 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.