Weather radio in Virginia

KJY86: NOAA Weather Radio, South Boston

162.525 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

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
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.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
CaswellNorth Carolina037033Whole county
GranvilleNorth Carolina037077North&central
PersonNorth Carolina037145Whole county
CampbellVirginia051031E and central
CharlotteVirginia051037Whole county
City of DanvilleVirginia051590Whole county
HalifaxVirginia051083Whole county
LunenburgVirginia051111Whole county
MecklenburgVirginia051117West &central
PittsylvaniaVirginia051143E & 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.