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SKYWARN® Direct Frequencies
The Wichita NWS has an Icom IC-910H radio for hams to use while in the office. There is also a switch to go from a ground plain to a stacked two-meter beam array for long-haul communications. Below are the current frequencies programmed in the memory in the radio at the NWS office. Please use the contact page if you have made contacts directly to the weather service on a frequency not listed here. This list contains known repeaters that the NWS office can reach under most conditions.

Programmed IC-910H NWS Office
Memory
Channel
Frequency Location Coverage
1. 147.300+ Sumner County  
2. 145.130- (PL 156.7) Beaumont Butler, Elk Greenwood Counties
3. 146.895- Wichita SE Sedgwick County
4. 146.610- Newton Harvey Co R.A.C.E.S. / SKYWARN®
5 146.820- Hutchinson Wide area coverage Permanently Off the Air
6 146.760- Great Bend Barton County
7 146.670- Hutchinson Reno County
8 145.190- Winfield Cowley County -- RACES Only Rptr
9 147.150+ El Dorado Butler County
10 146.940- Wichita Sedgwick Co R.A.C.E.S
11 147.330+ McPherson McPherson Saline, and W Marion County
12 146.790- Wichita Central and Metro Wichita
Not yet programmed but can reach the NWS directly
  146.700- Pratt Pratt County
  147.135+ (88.5PL) Hoisington Barton County
  146.850- Derby Kansas-Oklahoma State Line Network
WXØICT IS NOW ON ECHOLINK (when staffed)
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Updated August 11, 2010 22:17

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