Weather radio in Massachusetts

WXL93: NOAA Weather Radio, Worcester

162.550 MHz · 500 W · On the air

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
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.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
TollandConnecticut009013Northeast
WindhamConnecticut009015Northern 1/2
FranklinMassachusetts025011Central/E
HampdenMassachusetts025013E
HampshireMassachusetts025015Central/E
MiddlesexMassachusetts025017Central/W
NorfolkMassachusetts025021W
WorcesterMassachusetts025027Whole county
CheshireNew Hampshire033005S
HillsboroughNew Hampshire033011S
ProvidenceRhode Island044007Whole 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.