KEC83: NOAA Weather Radio, Baltimore
KEC83 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Baltimore, with the transmitter at Pikesville, Maryland, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Baltimore/Washington, VA programs it. It covers 16 counties in District of Columbia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KEC83 (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
- KEC83
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Baltimore
- Transmitter site
- Pikesville
- State
- Maryland
- NWS office
- Baltimore/Washington, VA
- Location
- 39.3863, -76.7308
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 011001 | Whole county |
| Anne Arundel | Maryland | 024003 | Whole county |
| Baltimore | Maryland | 024005 | Whole county |
| Calvert | Maryland | 024009 | Whole county |
| Carroll | Maryland | 024013 | Whole county |
| City of Baltimore | Maryland | 024510 | Whole county |
| Frederick | Maryland | 024021 | E |
| Harford | Maryland | 024025 | Whole county |
| Howard | Maryland | 024027 | Whole county |
| Kent | Maryland | 024029 | Whole county |
| Montgomery | Maryland | 024031 | Whole county |
| Prince Georges | Maryland | 024033 | Whole county |
| Queen Annes | Maryland | 024035 | Whole county |
| Talbot | Maryland | 024041 | Whole county |
| Adams | Pennsylvania | 042001 | Whole county |
| York | Pennsylvania | 042133 | 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 29, 2026 at 8:11 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.