KIG74: NOAA Weather Radio, Sault Ste Marie
KIG74 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Sault Ste Marie, with the transmitter at Dafter, Michigan, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Gaylord, MI programs it. It covers 2 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KIG74 (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
- KIG74
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Sault Ste Marie
- Transmitter site
- Dafter
- State
- Michigan
- NWS office
- Gaylord, MI
- Location
- 46.3770, -84.4251
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.
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.