Welcome To The
KBARA Website!
KBARA(KB7ARA)
is a regional amateur radio club for the inland Pacific
Northwest region of the United States. KBARA provides
assistance
and support to owners of member repeaters and links.
KBARA
itself does not own repeaters or links, rather it provides financial,
technical, maintenance and even emotional support to the owners of the
repeaters to make their ownership experience easier, and encourage them
to keep them up and running. KBARA also helps all amateur
radio
operators understand and use the linked repeater system for the benefit
of all.
The primary purpose of the KBARA repeaters is to provide a means for
emergency communications within the Pacific Northwest, and secondarily
for routine radio communication. Most KBARA member repeaters are audio linked
in such a way that when you speak on the repeater near you, your
transmission is not only heard on your local repeater, but is heard on
all of the other repeaters as well. This makes possible a
single
system of amateur
communications coverage, extending the limited range provided by any
single repeater operation. Most
KBARA FM repeaters operate in the VHF bands and are linked together
using UHF
radios. It
covers an area from northeastern Washington
to northeastern Oregon, and from western Montana to central Washington.
See Coverage Maps
for a graphic display of KBARA repeater coverage.
The KBARA system is also connected to the Evergreen Intertie, an
interconnected group of repeaters located in the northwestern United
States and western Canada.
The repeaters' frequencies, call signs and locations are as
follows:
Frequency/Callsign
CTCSS
Tone
Location
Owners
Linked?
Repeaters:
146.74
Mhz / W7HFI
None
Kamiak
Butte near Colfax and Pullman, WA
Bob-W7HFI
Jay-N7ZUF
John-W7OE
Yes
223.90 Mhz / AK2O
Ask - Do not share
Stensgar (Stranger) Mt. North of Spokane
near
Chewela, WA
Karl-AK2O
Yes - Hub
147.38 Mhz / W7OE
None
Mica Peak, East of Spokane
John-W7OE
Yes
147.36 Mhz / KF7QLH
None
Stensgar (Stranger) Mt. North of Spokane
near
Chewela, WA
Glen-KF7QLH
John-W7OE
Yes
147.02 Mhz / K7HPT
None
Lookout Pass on the Idaho-Montana border
Mark-K7HPT
John-W7OE
Yes
147.28 Mhz / KD7DDQ
None
Pikes Peak, SE of Walla Walla
Ken-KD7DDQ
Mark-K7HPT
Yes
53.75 Mhz / N7ZUF
100 hz
Kamiak Butte near Colfax and Pullman, WA
Jay-N7ZUF
Yes
443.125 Mhz / KB7ARA
D-Star Digital Module B
Spokane Area
Glen-KF7QLH
Randy-W4LKS
No - D-Star
1293.3 Mhz / KB7ARA
D-Star Digital Module C
Spokane Area
Glen-KF7QLH
Randy-W4LKS
No - D-Star
Links:
IRLP Node 3638 (KF7QLH)
None
South Hill, Spokane, WA
Glen-KF7QLH
Yes - IRLP
IRLP
Node 3282 (KF7QLH)
100 hz
Simplex Node on 147.40 Mhz, NW Spokane
Glen-KF7QLH
No - IRLP
Echolink Node W4LKS-R
None
Four Lakes, WA
Randy-W4LKS
Yes - Echolink
All
KBARA Repeaters use standard offsets and offset directions
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