Weather radio in Wisconsin

WXL64: NOAA Weather Radio, Dubuque

162.400 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WXL64 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Dubuque, with the transmitter at Jamestown, Wisconsin, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Quad Cities, IA programs it. It covers 9 counties in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXL64 (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
WXL64
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Dubuque
Transmitter site
Jamestown
NWS office
Quad Cities, IA
Location
42.5286, -90.6139

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
ClaytonIowa019043Whole county
DelawareIowa019055Whole county
DubuqueIowa019061Whole county
JacksonIowa019097Whole county
JonesIowa019105Whole county
CarrollIllinois017015W 1/2
Jo DaviessIllinois017085Whole county
GrantWisconsin055043Whole county
LafayetteWisconsin055065Whole 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 October 1, 2026 at 4:11 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.