WXL50: NOAA Weather Radio for Saint Pauls, North Carolina

WXL50 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Saint Pauls, broadcasting on 162.475 MHz at 1000 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Wilmington office's broadcast and covers 11 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 162.475 MHz as WX3, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.

Counties WXL50 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 WXL50

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