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WXK94: NOAA Weather Radio for Concordia, Kansas

WXK94 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Concordia, broadcasting on 162.550 MHz at 1000 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Topeka office's broadcast and covers 7 counties, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.

CallsignWXK94
Frequency162.550 MHz
TransmitterConcordia, Kansas
Power1000 watts
Forecast officeNWS Topeka
StatusNormal (NWS data, July 2026)

Marine radios often label 162.550 MHz as WX1, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.

Counties WXK94 covers

CountyStateSAME code
ClayKansas020027
CloudKansas020029
JewellKansas020089
MitchellKansas020123
OttawaKansas020143
RepublicKansas020157
WashingtonKansas020201

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

WXK94 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 WXK94 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 WXK94

Any receiver that tunes 162.550 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 Kansas transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in Kansas. Or look any county up with the finder.

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