WXL93: NOAA Weather Radio, Worcester
WXL93 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Worcester, with the transmitter at Paxton, Massachusetts, at 500 W. The National Weather Service office in Boston/Norton, MA programs it. It covers 11 counties in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXL93 (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
- WXL93
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 500 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Worcester
- Transmitter site
- Paxton
- State
- Massachusetts
- NWS office
- Boston/Norton, MA
- Location
- 42.3039, -71.8975
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tolland | Connecticut | 009013 | Northeast |
| Windham | Connecticut | 009015 | Northern 1/2 |
| Franklin | Massachusetts | 025011 | Central/E |
| Hampden | Massachusetts | 025013 | E |
| Hampshire | Massachusetts | 025015 | Central/E |
| Middlesex | Massachusetts | 025017 | Central/W |
| Norfolk | Massachusetts | 025021 | W |
| Worcester | Massachusetts | 025027 | Whole county |
| Cheshire | New Hampshire | 033005 | S |
| Hillsborough | New Hampshire | 033011 | S |
| Providence | Rhode Island | 044007 | 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 28, 2026 at 5:51 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.