WWF37: NOAA Weather Radio for Carlsbad, New Mexico
WWF37 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Carlsbad, broadcasting on 162.475 MHz at 100 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Midland/Odessa office's broadcast and covers 2 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.
| Callsign | WWF37 |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 162.475 MHz |
| Transmitter | Carlsbad, New Mexico |
| Power | 100 watts |
| Forecast office | NWS Midland/Odessa |
| Status | Out Of Service (NWS data, July 2026) |
Marine radios often label 162.475 MHz as WX3, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.
Counties WWF37 covers
| County | State | SAME code |
|---|---|---|
| Eddy | New Mexico | 035015 |
| Lea | New Mexico | 035025 |
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 WWF37
Any receiver that tunes 162.475 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 Mexico transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in New Mexico. 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.