Weather radio in Iowa

WXN83: NOAA Weather Radio, Burlington

162.525 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WXN83 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.525 MHz (WX7 on most receivers) from Burlington, Iowa, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Quad Cities, IA programs it. It covers 8 counties in Iowa and Illinois.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXN83 (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
WXN83
Frequency
162.525 MHz (WX7)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Burlington
State
Iowa
NWS office
Quad Cities, IA
Location
40.8339, -91.2128

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
Des MoinesIowa019057Whole county
HenryIowa019087East
LeeIowa019111Whole county
LouisaIowa019115NE
HancockIllinois017067N
HendersonIllinois017071Whole county
MercerIllinois017131SW
WarrenIllinois017187W

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 5:09 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.