Welcome to the Kamiak Butte Amateur Repeater Association Website                                                                               

KBARA (KB7ARA) is a regional amateur radio club for the inland Pacific Northwest region of the United States.  We also help 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 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 and IRLP.  It covers an area from northeastern Washington to northeastern Oregon, and from western Montana to central Washington.

As of July 2013, the East-West Evergreen Intertie RF link has been abandoned. Instead, a full time IRLP link has been installed. This allows improved audio and less dependency on RF links that had to be repaired almost every winter. As an added advantage, any IRLP linked repeater in the world can join our system by simply connecting to IRLP reflector 9075. Invite your ham friends elsewhere to connect to IRLP reflector 9075 anytime.  Thanks to Dave, KL7M for the use of his IRLP reflector.

The repeater frequencies, callsigns and locations are as follows:  

	Frequency / Callsign (click for more details)	CTCSS Tone	Location (click to see location in Google Earth	Owners	RF Linked?
Status	Repeaters
	223.90 Mhz / AK2O	None	Stensgar (Stranger) Mt, northwest of Spokane near Chewelah, WA	AK2O	Yes - Hub
	147.38 Mhz / N7WRQ	100.0	Mica Peak, southeast of Spokane.  New repeater installed 02/28/21 thanks to Jim and Glen.  Please note the need for a 100.0 Hz tone.	N7WRQ	Yes - AK2O (223.90)
	147.36 Mhz / N7WRR	None	Stensgar (Stranger) Mt, northwest of Spokane near Chewelah, WA	N7WRR	No - Hard wired to hub controller
	147.02 Mhz / KB7ARA	None	Lookout Pass on the Idaho-Montana border Drone view of the 147.02 repeater site	KBARA	No - W7OE (147.38)
	147.28 Mhz / KB7ARA	None	Pikes Peak, Southeast of Walla Walla	KBARA	Yes - AK2O (223.90)
	147.32 Mhz / KA7FVV	103.5	West Twin, near Moscow, ID	KA7FVV & Co-owned group	Yes -  IRLP Reflector 9075
	Links
.	Echolink Node KB7ARA-R (947272)	N/A		KB7ARA-R	Yes - AK2O (223.90)
	IRLP Node 3636 (KB7ARA)	None	East Tiger Mt, Issaquah, WA	KB7ARA	Yes - K7NWS (145.33) & IRLP Reflector 9075
	IRLP Node 3638 (K1RR)	None	Spokane, WA	K1RR	Yes - AK2O (223.90) & IRLP Reflector 9075

All KBARA Repeaters use standard offsets and offset directions