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WWG73: NOAA Weather Radio for Seymour, Indiana

WWG73 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Seymour, broadcasting on 162.525 MHz at 1000 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Indianapolis office's broadcast and covers 8 counties, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.

CallsignWWG73
Frequency162.525 MHz
TransmitterSeymour, Indiana
Power1000 watts
Forecast officeNWS Indianapolis
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 WWG73 covers

CountyStateSAME code
BartholomewIndiana018005
DecaturIndiana018031
JacksonIndiana018071
JenningsIndiana018079
JohnsonIndiana018081
RipleyIndiana018137
ScottIndiana018143
ShelbyIndiana018145

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

WWG73 alerts are only useful inside a radio you can program the s codes 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 WWG73 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 WWG73

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

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