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Welcome to the South Carolina Healthcare Emergency Radio Team (SC HEART) web site. Net information and network information are posted on this page. To check on the network go to the IRLP page. To view photos go to Gallery. To learn more about SC HEART go to About US. To learn more about amateur radio training classes contact Bill Dease KI4PKO dease@sc.edu or John Crockett KC4YI kc4yi@arrl.net or use Contact Us

Join the VHF – UHF Statewide South Carolina ARES Net at 8PM Sunday Night. All amateurs are welcome to check into the net. To allow time for announcements, check-ins and training topic please check in using – Call Sign, Name, Location, and if you have Announcements or Traffic.  

September  5, 2010 Training Topic:

Continue to review of Bart’s Basics from N3GQ, Senior Emergency and Continuity Manager, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, FCC. Ten Tips to Make You a Better Communicator. June 1, 2010 – The start of the 2010 Hurricane Season. August 1, 2010 is the real start of the Hurricane Season. The season peaks in September. If you have not put your to go kit together, no time like now. The time of evacuation and the 1st 24 hours after the storm passes are the times when our communications skills can make a difference.

Reminder: Is your generator fueled and ready to run? Does the 12v backup battery in the shack still have acid in it? Are the batteries charged for your handheld radio? Do you have a lighter plug for the handheld with dead batteries?  Or do you have a  AA pack with fresh AA batteries to use ?

Remember to start ICS 100. The course is available at http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/IS100A.asp. This is the introduction to the Incident Command System. To be fully trained take ICS 100, 200, 700 and 800 on line . ICS 300 and ICS 400 are taught in a classroom setting as is Communications Leadership. Brian Fletcher with MUSC is now certified to teach ICS 300, 400 and ComL. Send requests for class information to Charlie Miller, AE4UX (ae4ux@arrl.net) Remember, we respond to an emergency only as well as we have been trained. Part of the training is to know how the system works. 

August 1, 2010 – Total – 61 check-ins

August 8, 2010 – Total – 73 check-ins  (Silent Key Randy KJ4NQT)

August 15, 2010 – Total – 66 check-ins

August 22, 2010 – Total – 77 check-ins (new record)

August 29, 2010 – Total 62 check-ins

May 2010 Total 237 Check-ins 5 Nets

June 2010 Total 199 Check-ins 4 Nets

July 2010 Total 248 Check-ins 4 Nets

August 2010 Total 339 Check-ins 5 Nets

Join the SC Regional Skywarn Net Tuesday nights at 9 PM local. The net orginates from Charleston and is sponsored by the National Weather Service in Charleston. Hurricane season starts June 1, 2010. To get upto date information from the National Hurricane Center link to http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

August 5,  check-ins 25

August 12, check-ins 26

August 19, check-ins 35

August 26, check-ins 33

 Net Training: Be a better communicator! Read the Ten Tips from “Bart’s Basics” to be a better communicator under the “About” section, including: Do you  have a minimal “Go Kit” in your car for emergencies? Time is critical in an emergency. To be effective you must be able to be on your way at short notice. (Read the material – September 1 begins the peak of Hurricane Season )

Check this posting each week prior to net for information on training or training topics. The net needs additional net control operators contact Bill, KI4PKO or John, KC4YI. The net preamble is posted on the web site in the ”About”  section. This will give you the information you need to be a net control operator or an alternate net control operator. Thanks, John, KC4YI.

All amateur radio operators are welcome to check into the net. If you are interested in becoming a RRT (radio response team) member contact Bill Dease KI4PKO at dease@sc.edu or http://www.sph.sc.edu/acphp/scheart/ .

Check in to the  D-STAR Net at 8:30 AM on Thursdays. This net meets on Reflector 030B and is sponsored by the Coastal Georgia Health District. The net currently has at least 15 check-ins to the net.

The following repeaters can be used to get into the net:

The Awendaw, Dillon, Columbia and Little Mountain repeaters will automatically link to the reflector. The other repeaters will require a local operator to bring up the link and take it down at the end of the net.  If you have not registered to operate on a D-Star Gateway, you will need to register with your local D-Star repeater. Go to this website for information www.d-starusers.org  .  Don’t forget – no D-Star radio – use your DV-Dongle. Questions or problems kc4yi@arrl.net