Welcome to the North Idaho Repeater Group. We welcome all licensed amateur radio operator to use this system. It is our pleasure to provide a unique system to the Spokane | Coeur d'Alene | Bonner | Benawah | Sand Point | Shoshone areas. Some of our goals are to:

• Provide emergency service to North Idaho through ARES/RACES groups in the event of natural disaster. In doing so we also provide an emergency network to the outdoors man of North Idaho. We want  hams to be able to contact to someone any place in the northern counties of Idaho and know they can get help if needed. 

• Bring together the Ham communities of the different counties for fun and community service. 

• Provide financial assistance to the repeater owners and groups for maintenance and equipment upgrades.

     The group system utilizes a VHF/UHF link system powered by 7 Kenwood commercial repeaters  2 new Icom repeater and Motorola link radios. Our repeaters also use CTCSS Encode/Decode with reverse burst to eliminate  squelch tail. In addition we have a dedicated Motorola DMR repeater at the Blossom peak location which is part of the PNW (Pacific Noth West) group. The FM repeaters are equipped with Echolink and IRLP for your enjoyment. Feel free to ask if you need help. Someone monitors the system most of the time. We recently achieved our long term goal of forming the North Idaho Repeater Group, a 501c3 organization, serving Cd'A, Spokane, Wallace, Priest Lake, Bonner Ferry, Sand Point and St. Maries. This is a combination of the S.C.A.R.S., Benewah County Amature Radio, Bonner County Amateur Radio Club, Boundary Amateur Radio Club and ARES/RACES coming together to expand the coverage area for each organization. The 6 meter receiver is at the KARS Idaho Mica site linked to our Blossom peak site repeaters.       

      Please visit our pictures page  and forums to see the latest upgrades. All donations towards this project are happily accepted and tax deductible.