WXL38: NOAA Weather Radio for Binghamton, New York

WXL38 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Binghamton, broadcasting on 162.475 MHz at 1000 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	WXL38
Frequency	162.475 MHz
Transmitter	Binghamton, New York
Power	1000 watts
Forecast office	NWS Binghamton
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 WXL38 covers

County	State	SAME code	Note
Broome	New York	036007
Chenango	New York	036017	CENTRAL/S
Cortland	New York	036023	S 1/2
Delaware	New York	036025	W
Tioga	New York	036107
Tompkins	New York	036109	SE 1/2
Bradford	Pennsylvania	042015	N
Susquehanna	Pennsylvania	042115

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 WXL38

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.