KZZ41: NOAA Weather Radio for Mt. Washington, New Hampshire
KZZ41 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Mt. Washington (transmitter at North Conway), broadcasting on 162.500 MHz at 100 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Gray/Portland office's broadcast and covers 15 counties, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.
| Callsign | KZZ41 |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 162.500 MHz |
| Transmitter | Mt. Washington (transmitter at North Conway), New Hampshire |
| Power | 100 watts |
| Forecast office | NWS Gray/Portland |
| Status | Normal (NWS data, July 2026) |
Marine radios often label 162.500 MHz as WX6, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.
Counties KZZ41 covers
| County | State | SAME code |
|---|---|---|
| Cumberland | Maine | 023005 |
| Franklin | Maine | 023007 |
| Oxford | Maine | 023017 |
| Somerset | Maine | 023025 |
| York | Maine | 023031 |
| Belknap | New Hampshire | 033001 |
| Carroll | New Hampshire | 033003 |
| Coos | New Hampshire | 033007 |
| Grafton | New Hampshire | 033009 |
| Merrimack | New Hampshire | 033013 |
| Rockingham | New Hampshire | 033015 |
| Strafford | New Hampshire | 033017 |
| Caledonia | Vermont | 050005 |
| Essex | Vermont | 050009 |
| Orange | Vermont | 050017 |
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 KZZ41
Any receiver that tunes 162.500 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 New Hampshire transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in New Hampshire. Or look any county up with the finder.
Sources:
- “NWR County Coverage Listings”. weather.gov. Archived from the original on 2026-07-19. Retrieved 2026-07-16. Every figure on this page - frequency, transmitter site, power, operational status, and county SAME codes - is from this dataset. Transmitters move, change power, and go down for maintenance; verify locally before you rely on it.