WXL37: NOAA Weather Radio for Highland, New York

WXL37 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Highland (transmitter at Illinois Mtn.), broadcasting on 162.475 MHz at 1000 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Albany 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	WXL37
Frequency	162.475 MHz
Transmitter	Highland (transmitter at Illinois Mtn.), New York
Power	1000 watts
Forecast office	NWS Albany
Status	Normal (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 WXL37 covers

County	State	SAME code	Note
Litchfield	Connecticut	009005	WEST
Columbia	New York	036021
Dutchess	New York	036027
Greene	New York	036039
Orange	New York	036071
Putnam	New York	036079
Sullivan	New York	036105
Ulster	New York	036111

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 WXL37

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 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.