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WNG734: NOAA Weather Radio for Marietta, Ohio

WNG734 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Marietta (transmitter at Washington County), broadcasting on 162.400 MHz at 308 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Charleston office's broadcast and covers 6 counties, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.

CallsignWNG734
Frequency162.400 MHz
TransmitterMarietta (transmitter at Washington County), Ohio
Power308 watts
Forecast officeNWS Charleston
StatusNormal (NWS data, July 2026)

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

Counties WNG734 covers

CountyStateSAME code
MonroeOhio039111
NobleOhio039121
WashingtonOhio039167
PleasantsWest Virginia054073
TylerWest Virginia054095
WoodWest Virginia054107

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.

A radio that will use this code

WNG734 alerts are only useful inside a radio you can program the s codes above into. Two that do it, for two different jobs.

At home, always on

Midland WR120B. Mains desk radio with battery backup. Program the SAME code from the table and it stays silent until your county specifically is warned, then wakes you.

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In the bag or the car

Midland ER310. Crank, solar and USB, with a flashlight. Receives WNG734 the same as anything else; it does not do SAME alerting. The one still working on day three of an outage.

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Hearing WNG734

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

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