21st Annual Holiday Luncheon
December, 17, 2022, Saturday, 1PM at
Longhorn Barbeque Restaurant, 2315 N Argonne Road,
(corner of Argonne & Montgomery),
Spokane Valley, WA 99212
All Amateur Radio operators, their
families & friends are invited to this annual fun get-together.
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
