Weather radio in Massachusetts

WXM68: NOAA Weather Radio, Leyden

162.425 MHz · 300 W · On the air

WXM68 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.425 MHz (WX4 on most receivers) from Leyden, Massachusetts, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Albany, NY programs it. It covers 6 counties in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXM68 (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
WXM68
Frequency
162.425 MHz (WX4)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Leyden
NWS office
Albany, NY
Location
42.6981, -72.6050

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
BerkshireMassachusetts025003Whole county
FranklinMassachusetts025011N
HampshireMassachusetts025015Whole county
CheshireNew Hampshire033005W
BenningtonVermont050003E
WindhamVermont050025Whole 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 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.