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WNG692: NOAA Weather Radio for Carrizo Springs, Texas

WNG692 is the NOAA Weather Radio transmitter at Carrizo Springs, broadcasting on 162.550 MHz at 500 watts. It carries the National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio office's broadcast and covers 3 counties, each listed below with the SAME code an alert radio needs to wake for that county and stay quiet for the rest.

CallsignWNG692
Frequency162.550 MHz
TransmitterCarrizo Springs, Texas
Power500 watts
Forecast officeNWS Austin/San Antonio
StatusNormal (NWS data, July 2026)

Marine radios often label 162.550 MHz as WX1, but WX channel numbers vary by brand - go by the frequency.

Counties WNG692 covers

CountyStateSAME code
DimmitTexas048127
MaverickTexas048323
ZavalaTexas048507

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

WNG692 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 WNG692 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 WNG692

Any receiver that tunes 162.550 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 Texas transmitter, county and SAME code: NOAA Weather Radio in Texas. Or look any county up with the finder.

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