Today, July 1, 2024, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) became two separate agencies. The two new agencies will be the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services (SCDES) and South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH). SCHEART will be supported by DPH. The SCHEART.US website has been updated to reflect this…
SCHEART will be offering Ham (Amateur) Radio classes in June of 2024. This is for Technician, General and Extra. All classes will be running from June 10th through 14th 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…
SCHEART will be offering Ham (Amateur) Radio classes in September of 2024. This is for Technician, General and Extra. All classes will be running from September 2nd through 6th 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…
The Sumter Downtown DMR repeater located at Prisma Toumey hospital has been decommissioned and removed from the facility at the request of the local coordinator. The repeater equipment will be maintained as part of the system spare equipment. SCHEART would like to thank Prisma Toumey for supporting the repeater operation since 2014.
SCHEART would like to give a big thanks to members of the Cherokee County Guardians for driving several 100 miles and spending many hours fox hunting the signal interfering with our Spartanburg VHF repeater. The continuous 24/7 transmit started March 14 and was linked to a defective radio. The Fox hunt crew actually changed out…
The Spartanburg VHF repeater is out of service due to an equipment failure. A trouble ticket has been submitted and engineering advised. The Spartanburg UHF repeater is operating normally and should be used while repairs are being implemented on the VHF repeater. The UHF repeater will be linked for weekend travel.
The board has approved rules for the use of the SCHEART System. They are published here. The rules specify the way the SCHEART System can be used, and how communications are to be done. If you have any questions or comments, use the Content Form.
SCEMD has requested SCHEART support the 2024 “All Shook Up” State Full Scale Exercise . This requires SCHEART repeaters to be linked from 0830 to 1700 on March 12 and 13th. These two days directly support state and county agencies along with communication units and AUXCOMM member training. Then on March 16 from 0830 until…
SCHEART will be offering Ham (Amateur) Radio classes in March of 2024. This is for Technician, General and Extra. All classes will be running from March 18th through 22nd 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…
SCEMD requested the SCHEART VHF repeaters be linked starting at 11:00 AM on Friday, January 12th and remain linked until the normal weekend link starts at 0500 PM. K4EMD will be monitoring the SCHEART network for damage reports or other significant information that needs to be relayed to the State Warning Point..