KPS511: NOAA Weather Radio, Great Bend
KPS511 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Great Bend, Kansas, at 1,060 W. The National Weather Service office in Wichita, KS programs it. It covers 7 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KPS511 (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
- KPS511
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz (WX6)
- Power
- 1,060 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Great Bend
- State
- Kansas
- NWS office
- Wichita, KS
- Location
- 38.4479, -98.7692
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 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.