Weather radio in Massachusetts

KEC73: NOAA Weather Radio, Bourne/Hyannis

162.550 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KEC73 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Bourne/Hyannis, with the transmitter at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Boston/Norton, MA programs it. It covers 5 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KEC73 (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
KEC73
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Bourne/Hyannis
Transmitter site
Camp Edwards
NWS office
Boston/Norton, MA
Location
41.7077, -70.5644

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
BarnstableMassachusetts025001Whole county
BristolMassachusetts025005Central/S
DukesMassachusetts025007Whole county
NantucketMassachusetts025019Whole county
PlymouthMassachusetts025023Central/S

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 26, 2026 at 6:48 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.