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© 2017, Kamiak Butte Amateur Repeater Association
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Welcome to the Kamiak Butte Amateur Repeater Association
Website
We learned last
Thursday that, John, W7OE, became a silent key. His daughter
advised on his FB page that he had passed away suddenly of natural
causes.
Field Day at Valleyford Park,
Valleyford, WA on June 28th and 29th. Come one, come all for
Field Day events. Operations can start at 1100 Local time (1800
UTC) on Saturday and run until the same time on Sunday.
Jim and Betsy will be preparing
German sausages for lunch. Bring a dish for the potluck if you
wish.
See the Spring Newsletter for
more details.
West Twin is back up
locally. We switch to an RF link to the system and West Twin is
having issues hearing consistently.
The
Spring
Newsletter is now available online.
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:
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Frequency
/ Callsign
(click for more details) |
CTCSS
Tone |
Repeater Location |
Owners |
RF/IRLP Linked |
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Status |
Repeaters
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223.90 Mhz /
KB7ARA |
None |
Stensgar (Stranger) Mt, northwest of Spokane
near
Chewelah, WA
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KB7ARA |
Yes - Hub |
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147.38 Mhz / N7WRQ |
100.0 |
Mica Peak, southeast of Spokane.
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N7WRQ |
Yes - KB7ARA (223.90) |
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147.36 Mhz / N7WRR |
None |
Stensgar (Stranger) Mt, northwest of Spokane
near
Chewelah, WA |
N7WRR |
No - Hard wired
to hub controller |
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147.02 Mhz / KB7ARA |
None |
Lookout Pass on the Idaho-Montana border
Drone view of the 147.02
repeater site |
KBARA |
No - N7WRQ (147.38) |
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147.28 Mhz / KB7ARA |
None |
Pikes Peak, Southeast of Walla Walla
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KBARA |
Yes - KB7ARA (223.90)
Temp IRLP Link |
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147.32 Mhz / KA7FVV |
103.5 |
West Twin, near Moscow, ID -
Working Locally |
KA7FVV &
Co-owners |
Yes - IRLP Reflector 9075 |
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444.35 Mhz / N1NG |
192.8 |
Mica Peak, southeast of Spokane |
N1NG |
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Links
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Echolink Node KB7ARA-R (947272) |
N/A |
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KB7ARA-R |
Yes - KB7ARA (223.90) |
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IRLP Node 3636 (KB7ARA) |
None |
East Tiger Mt, Issaquah, WA
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KB7ARA |
Yes - K7NWS (145.33) &
IRLP Reflector 9075
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IRLP Node 3638 (K1RR) |
None |
Spokane, WA
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K1RR |
Yes - KB7ARA (223.90) &
IRLP Reflector 9075 |
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Allstar Node 53587 |
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All
KBARA Repeaters use standard offsets and offset directions
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