FK8KA / FK8SIX blog

 a reminder of the blog for the New Caledonia Amateur Radio Club blog  FK8KA / FK8SIX

for details on their repeaters and 6m beacon.
It would great if they were able to operate a 2metre and 70cm beacons to compliment their 6metre beacon to allow for tropo propagation studies between  VK & ZL to FK8

FK8KA

FK8SIX 6metre Beacon is back on air (50.080 MHz) from New Caledonia

 news from our amateur radio friends in New Caledonia (ARANC club FK8KA)

that the FK8SIX  6metre Beacon is back on air (50.080 MHz) as of October 2024, after a long outage of several years.

You can read about it on their blog 

FK8KA: Beacon FK8SIX

Noumea 2metre FM repeater FK8ZHA 146.800 MHz off air

when I visited Noumea at end of December 2019, I took 2m/70cm handheld with me to work the local FK8's but found 146.800 repeater not responding, had it monitoring all day but nothing. Checked the other frequencies, I heard the FK1ZBR 439.950 digital node being used.
Anyway, the 146.800 repeater may have been damaged along with the FK8SIX 6metre beacon last year.   Looks like FK5ZBY operating a Echolink node on 145.300 MHz

But I did find there are stations active based on the APRS.fi map.
APRS near Noumea