KEC78: NOAA Weather Radio, Salt Lake City
KEC78 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Salt Lake City, with the transmitter at Bacchus, Utah, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Salt Lake City, UT programs it. It covers 5 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KEC78 (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
- KEC78
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 300 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Salt Lake City
- Transmitter site
- Bacchus
- State
- Utah
- NWS office
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Location
- 40.6272, -112.0572
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 3:12 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.