WXM65: NOAA Weather Radio for Baxley, Georgia

WXM65 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Baxley (transmitter at Plant Hatch), broadcasting on 162.525 MHz at 300 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Jacksonville office's broadcast and covers 4 counties, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.

Listed out of service in the NWS coverage data this page is built from (retrieved July 2026). If you cannot hear it, that is probably why - the finder lists the other transmitters covering each county below, and the NWS posts outage notices on its own site.

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

Counties WXM65 covers

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.

Hearing WXM65

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