KZZ79: NOAA Weather Radio, Spooner

162.475 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

KZZ79 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.475 MHz (WX3 on most receivers) from Spooner, with the transmitter at Lampson, Wisconsin, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Duluth, MN programs it. It covers 8 counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ79 (the largest dot) and the transmitters within 100 miles, colored by their status now.

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The transmitter

Call sign: KZZ79
Frequency: 162.475 MHz (WX3)
Power: 1,000 W
Status: On the air
Station: Spooner
Transmitter site: Lampson
State: Wisconsin
NWS office: Duluth, MN
Location: 45.9868, -91.7937

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
Pine	Minnesota	027115	Whole county
Barron	Wisconsin	055005	Whole county
Bayfield	Wisconsin	055007	Whole county
Burnett	Wisconsin	055013	Whole county
Douglas	Wisconsin	055031	Whole county
Polk	Wisconsin	055095	Whole county
Sawyer	Wisconsin	055113	Whole county
Washburn	Wisconsin	055129	Whole county

Nearby transmitters

Weather radio in Wisconsin Every transmitter The forecast here Alerts in force in Wisconsin

Sources

Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read September 28, 2026 at 8:10 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.