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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
John Crockett, W3KH, was the visionary leader that spearheaded the SCHEART Program. John served as the lead system design engineer and had primary responsibility for establishing the SCHEART repeater network. We lost John on October 12, 2016 after a courageous cancer fight. On this anniversary of his passing, we would like to remind everyone of…
Due to the state of the roads, we’re going to have to cancel our Amateur Radio testing for Tomorrow, Saturday September 27, 2024. Sorry for the late notice.
UPDATE 10/7/2024 @ 1634 The SCHEART network has returned to normal operations and is available for licensed operators to use. Thanks to the amateur radio community for supporting the Hurricane Helene response effort. 73 Roger UPDATE 10/6/2024 @ 1350 The SCHEART network continues to support recovery operations at the request of SCEMD. At 8:00…
A reminder to stations checking in on the Thursday Morning Healthcare nets not to use the terms DHEC or PHRC. In July, South Carolina recently Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and healthcare functions now operate under Department of Public Health (DPH). Along with that split, the term Public Health Reserve Corps (PHRC) was…