SCHEART will be offering Ham (Amateur) Radio classes in March of 2023. This is for Technician, General and Extra. All classes will be running from May 29th to June 2nd. 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…
Update 5/31/2023 afternoon. SCHEART VHF/UHF and DMR have resumed normal operations. The SCHEART VHF/UHF and DMR repeaters at Awendaw are back on the air with full coverage. The VHF repeater is connected to the statewide network. Statewide connectivity for the UHF and DMR repeaters should happen shortly. UPDATE 5/26/2023: SCETV tower crew is wrapping up…
On Monday, May 22 at 8:20 PM local time, a memorial net will be conducted on the SCHEART repeater system in honor of Marc Tarplee, N4UFP. Marc has been ARRL Section Manager for South Carolina since 2010 and has been a big champion of Amateur Radio and the SCHEART program. Unfortunately, we lost Marc on…
UPDATE: A network firmware update was pushed this morning which affected Wallace, Orangeburg and Whitehall IRLP boxes. Units are currently hug and will not reconnect to the network. Engineering is working to restore connectivity. A network issue affected the following sites which are offline this morning (3/30/23): Charleston Wallace VHF/UHF and Orangeburg VHF/UHF repeaters. Greenville…
The 2023 state Full Scale Exercise (FSE) will occur on March 8th and 9th with a communication exercise on March 11. The SCHEART repeater network will be configured to support the exercise as follows. The DMR network will go into emergency operational mode shortly after noon on March 8 and remain until 1600 Local on…
The SCHEART DMR network does not support APRS. All operators should ensure they do not beacon on the SCHEART DMR network. Some DMR radios also support APRS functions and revert to the last transmit channel selected when sending their APRS data. When an operator selects any SCHEART DMR talk group, the radio starts sending APRS…
The Sumter Amateur Radio Association (SARA) will be conducting amateur radio (ham radio) exams on Saturday, May 6th, 9:00 AM at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 2325 Camden Hwy, Sumter, SC. There is still time to register to take a ham radio exam there…contact Art, ahwild@aol.com.
SCHEART will be offering Ham (Amateur) Radio classes in March of 2023. This is for Technician, General and Extra. All classes will be running from March 20th through 24th. 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…
Update: 10/15/2022 @ 3:00 PM. Engineering determined a server update cause the unit to hang which took down the SCHEART Conference backup bridge. The Conference main bridge experienced a hardware failure a failure a couple of weeks ago and was being rebuilt but it wasn’t ready to go online before the Wednesday net. SCETV has…
UPDATE 4/27/2023: The Columbia Downtown repeater is back on the air at the new location which is in West Columbia. It’s name will not change since it is the repeater closest to downtown. The Columbia Downtown DMR repeater is being relocated off the Capital Center location. It will be off the air until installed at…