WXJ23: NOAA Weather Radio for Beaufort, South Carolina
WXJ23 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Beaufort (transmitter at Green Pond), broadcasting on 162.450 MHz at 500 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Charleston 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 | WXJ23 |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 162.450 MHz |
| Transmitter | Beaufort (transmitter at Green Pond), South Carolina |
| Power | 500 watts |
| Forecast office | NWS Charleston |
| Status | Normal (NWS data, July 2026) |
Marine radios often label 162.450 MHz as WX5, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.
Counties WXJ23 covers
| County | State | SAME code | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatham | Georgia | 013051 | East |
| Effingham | Georgia | 013103 | E |
| Allendale | South Carolina | 045005 | S |
| Bamberg | South Carolina | 045009 | S |
| Beaufort | South Carolina | 045013 | |
| Colleton | South Carolina | 045029 | |
| Hampton | South Carolina | 045049 | |
| Jasper | South Carolina | 045053 |
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.
A radio that will use this code
WXJ23 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.
Check current price (Amazon)In the bag or the car
Midland ER310. Crank, solar and USB, with a flashlight. Receives WXJ23 the same as anything else; it does not do SAME alerting. The one still working on day three of an outage.
Check current price (Amazon)Hearing WXJ23
Any receiver that tunes 162.450 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 South Carolina transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in South Carolina. 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.