Weather radio in Kansas

WXN81: NOAA Weather Radio, Ulysses

162.450 MHz · 1,000 W · Off the air

WXN81 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.450 MHz (WX5 on most receivers) from Ulysses, Kansas, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Dodge City, KS programs it. It covers 9 counties. NWS lists it as off the air now.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXN81 (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
WXN81
Frequency
162.450 MHz (WX5)
Power
1,000 W
Status
Off the air
Station
Ulysses
State
Kansas
NWS office
Dodge City, KS
Location
37.5051, -101.4703

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
FinneyKansas020055Whole county
GrantKansas020067Whole county
HamiltonKansas020075Whole county
HaskellKansas020081Whole county
KearnyKansas020093Whole county
MortonKansas020129Whole county
SewardKansas020175Whole county
StantonKansas020187Whole county
StevensKansas020189Whole 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 30, 2026 at 5:35 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.