WWH35: NOAA Weather Radio for Cooperstown, New York

WWH35 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Cooperstown (transmitter at Cornish Hill Rd.), broadcasting on 162.450 MHz at 100 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Binghamton 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.

Callsign	WWH35
Frequency	162.450 MHz
Transmitter	Cooperstown (transmitter at Cornish Hill Rd.), New York
Power	100 watts
Forecast office	NWS Binghamton
Status	Normal (NWS data, July 2026)

Marine radios often label 162.450 MHz as WX5, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.

Counties WWH35 covers

County	State	SAME code	Note
Chenango	New York	036017
Delaware	New York	036025
Herkimer	New York	036043	S
Madison	New York	036053
Montgomery	New York	036057
Oneida	New York	036065	S
Otsego	New York	036077
Schoharie	New York	036095

A county marked with a note (for example partial coverage) is served for that portion only. 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 WWH35

Any receiver that tunes 162.450 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 York transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in New York. 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.