The South Carolina Department of Public Health will be conducting a simulated healthcare exercise on Friday, April 11, 2025. The exercise will include elements all four SCDPH regions and Medical Reserve Corps volunteers. SCHEART has been requested to support communications for this exercise which will focus on a major power failure event. Amateur Radio…
We are in need of additional Hams who would act as Net Control Stations (NCS) for the Thursday 0900 SCHEART Training net. Doing it once a month, or even less would be of great help. A couple of our past NCSs have aged out. The Preamble would be provided. You would not have to…
A free, weekly, 3-hour Amateur Radio Operating Class on Zoom will begin on Thursday April 3 and run through June 19 at 6:30 PM Eastern time. The presenters will be various experienced folks in the various subjects. A detailed syllabus will be published before the classes begin. Attend them all, or any that you like,…
The 2025 Statewide Full Scale Exercise will be happening on March 11, 12 and 15th. The exercise scenario will cover a long term power outage with disruption of normal fuel delivery systems. SCHEART has been requested to support the communications portion of the exercise. The SCHEART analog system will be linked statewide on these days…
SCHEART will be offering Ham (Amateur) Radio classes in March of 2025. This is for Technician, General and Extra. All classes will be running from March 17th to the 21st. from 6pm to 9pm. Some classes will not take the whole week but will finish when all the material is covered. These classes run concurrently. You can…
Due to the approaching winter storm, SCEMD has requested SCHEART VHF system to be linked effective at 1021 on January 21, 2025 and will remain linked until the storm has passed. The State Emergency Operations Radio Room will be monitoring the system. Weather reports should be passed to the normal SKYWARN controllers but if not…
UPDATE 1/11/25. The SCHEART Repeater Network has returned to normal operations effective at 11:00 AM. Due to the winter storm affecting South Carolina, the state Emergency Management Division has requested the SCHEART VHF repeater network to be linked along with Greenwood UHF. The system will remain linked in support of the storm.
The North Carolina Section ARRL Section has announced a free, weekly, live, Amateur Radio Extra Class Licensing course on Zoom beginning on Thursday, January 16, 2025, and running through Thursday, March 27. There will be a total of 11 sessions. The three-hour sessions will start at 6:30 PM Eastern Time. Sessions will be recorded. Those…
SCHEART will be offering Ham (Amateur) Radio classes in December of 2024. This is for Technician, General and Extra. All classes will be running from December 9th through 13th from 6pm to 9pm. Some classes will not take the whole week but will finish when all the material is covered. These classes run concurrently. You can only…
Kent, KQ4KK, wishes to remind everyone that the SCHEART Healthcare Net for Thursday, November 28, 2024 has been canceled. On behalf of SCHEART, we wish everyone has a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.
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