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WNG643: NOAA Weather Radio for Marvell, Arkansas

WNG643 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Marvell (transmitter at Phillips County), broadcasting on 162.525 MHz at 1070 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Memphis office's broadcast and covers 1 county, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.

CallsignWNG643
Frequency162.525 MHz
TransmitterMarvell (transmitter at Phillips County), Arkansas
Power1070 watts
Forecast officeNWS Memphis
StatusNormal (NWS data, July 2026)

Marine radios often label 162.525 MHz as WX7, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.

Counties WNG643 covers

CountyStateSAME code
PhillipsArkansas005107

Program the six-digit code into your radio's SAME location list - the SAME code guide walks through it, and how alert radios work explains what the radio does with it.

A radio that will use this code

WNG643 alerts are only useful inside a radio you can program the code above into. Two that do it, for two different jobs.

At home, always on

Midland WR120B. Mains desk radio with battery backup. Program the SAME code from the table and it stays silent until your county specifically is warned, then wakes you.

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In the bag or the car

Midland ER310. Crank, solar and USB, with a flashlight. Receives WNG643 the same as anything else; it does not do SAME alerting. The one still working on day three of an outage.

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Hearing WNG643

Any receiver that tunes 162.525 MHz FM can listen: scanners, VHF ham radios, marine sets, or a software-defined receiver. What those do not do is wake you at 3 a.m. - for that you want a dedicated radio with SAME alerting, covered in the buyer's guide.

Every Arkansas transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in Arkansas. Or look any county up with the finder.

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