Weather radio in Kentucky

WWG28: NOAA Weather Radio, Paintsville

162.525 MHz · 100 W · On the air

WWG28 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.525 MHz (WX7 on most receivers) from Paintsville, Kentucky, at 100 W. The National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY programs it. It covers 6 counties in Kentucky and West Virginia.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WWG28 (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
WWG28
Frequency
162.525 MHz (WX7)
Power
100 W
Status
On the air
Station
Paintsville
NWS office
Jackson, KY
Location
37.8446, -82.6680

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
FloydKentucky021071Whole county
JohnsonKentucky021115Whole county
MagoffinKentucky021153Whole county
MartinKentucky021159Whole county
PikeKentucky021195Whole county
WayneWest Virginia054099Whole 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 28, 2026 at 8:58 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.