KJY86: NOAA Weather Radio, South Boston
KJY86 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.525 MHz (WX7 on most receivers) from South Boston, Virginia, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, VA programs it. It covers 10 counties in North Carolina and Virginia.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KJY86 (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
- KJY86
- Frequency
- 162.525 MHz (WX7)
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- South Boston
- State
- Virginia
- NWS office
- Blacksburg, VA
- Location
- 36.7331, -78.9339
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.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caswell | North Carolina | 037033 | Whole county |
| Granville | North Carolina | 037077 | North¢ral |
| Person | North Carolina | 037145 | Whole county |
| Campbell | Virginia | 051031 | E and central |
| Charlotte | Virginia | 051037 | Whole county |
| City of Danville | Virginia | 051590 | Whole county |
| Halifax | Virginia | 051083 | Whole county |
| Lunenburg | Virginia | 051111 | Whole county |
| Mecklenburg | Virginia | 051117 | West ¢ral |
| Pittsylvania | Virginia | 051143 | E & central |
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 29, 2026 at 8:11 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.