WWG81: NOAA Weather Radio, Phelps
WWG81 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Phelps, with the transmitter at Dicks Knob, Kentucky, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY programs it. It covers 2 counties in Kentucky and West Virginia.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WWG81 (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
- WWG81
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz (WX6)
- Power
- 300 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Phelps
- Transmitter site
- Dicks Knob
- State
- Kentucky
- NWS office
- Jackson, KY
- Location
- 37.5010, -82.2275
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.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pike | Kentucky | 021195 | Whole county |
| Mingo | West Virginia | 054059 | Whole 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 9:20 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.