KEC77: NOAA Weather Radio, Saint Joseph
KEC77 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Saint Joseph, with the transmitter at Wathena, Kansas, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Kansas City, MO programs it. It covers 8 counties in Kansas and Missouri.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KEC77 (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
- KEC77
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Saint Joseph
- Transmitter site
- Wathena
- State
- Kansas
- NWS office
- Kansas City, MO
- Location
- 39.7096, -95.0425
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 26, 2026 at 11:46 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.