Weather radio in Ohio

KJY68: NOAA Weather Radio, Chillicothe

162.500 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KJY68 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.500 MHz (WX6 on most receivers) from Chillicothe, with the transmitter at Ross County, Ohio, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Wilmington, OH programs it. It covers 8 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KJY68 (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
KJY68
Frequency
162.500 MHz (WX6)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Chillicothe
Transmitter site
Ross County
State
Ohio
NWS office
Wilmington, OH
Location
39.3294, -82.8022

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
FairfieldOhio039045SW
FayetteOhio039047East and central
HockingOhio039073Whole county
JacksonOhio039079Whole county
PickawayOhio039129Whole county
PikeOhio039131Whole county
RossOhio039141Whole county
VintonOhio039163Whole 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 3:37 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.