KEC84: NOAA Weather Radio for New Bern, North Carolina

KEC84 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at New Bern (transmitter at Glenburnie Garden), broadcasting on 162.400 MHz at 1000 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City office's broadcast and covers 12 counties, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.

Marine radios often label 162.400 MHz as WX2, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.

Counties KEC84 covers

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 KEC84

Any receiver that tunes 162.400 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 North Carolina transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in North Carolina. Or look any county up with the finder.