WXK97: NOAA Weather Radio, Sudlersville
WXK97 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Sudlersville, Maryland, at 1,100 W. The National Weather Service office in Philadelphia/Mt Holly, NJ programs it. It covers 17 counties in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXK97 (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
- WXK97
- Frequency
- 162.500 MHz (WX6)
- Power
- 1,100 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Sudlersville
- State
- Maryland
- NWS office
- Philadelphia/Mt Holly, NJ
- Location
- 39.1754, -75.9183
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent | Delaware | 010001 | Whole county |
| New Castle | Delaware | 010003 | South |
| Sussex | Delaware | 010005 | Northwest |
| Anne Arundel | Maryland | 024003 | Whole county |
| Baltimore | Maryland | 024005 | Whole county |
| Caroline | Maryland | 024011 | Whole county |
| Cecil | Maryland | 024015 | Whole county |
| City of Baltimore | Maryland | 024510 | Whole county |
| Dorchester | Maryland | 024019 | Whole county |
| Harford | Maryland | 024025 | Whole county |
| Howard | Maryland | 024027 | Whole county |
| Kent | Maryland | 024029 | Whole county |
| Queen Annes | Maryland | 024035 | Whole county |
| Talbot | Maryland | 024041 | Whole county |
| Cumberland | New Jersey | 034011 | Whole county |
| Salem | New Jersey | 034033 | Whole county |
| Chester | Pennsylvania | 042029 | 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 October 4, 2026 at 6:18 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.