Columbia Downtown DMR relocation
The Columbia Downtown DMR repeater is being relocated off the Capital Center location. It will be off the air until installed at a new location southwest of downtown.
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No Healthcare Net on 11/24/2022
The SCHEART Healthcare net scheduled for Thursday, November 24, 2022 is canceled due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. Normal nets will resume on the following Thursday. SCHEART wishes everyone a safe and Happy Thanksgiving
Tropical Storm Nicole
SCEMD has requested SCHEART to be linked tomorrow as Nicole passes across the state. The SEOC will not be active but individuals will be monitoring the SCHEART network during the day should anyone have essential traffic. The VHF/UHF system will be linked from 7:45 AM until 4:45 PM on 11/11/2022. At 05:00 PM the VHF…
John Crockett Memorial Fund
The ETV Endowment established the John Crockett Engineering Internship in 2016 to honor John’s outstanding service to SCETV and the state of South Carolina. Interns work in ETV’s engineering department in Columbia. Donations to the fund may be made online at etvendowment.org or mailed to: ETV Endowment of South Carolina John Crockett Engineering Internship 401…
Hurricane Ian and System Status
October 1, 2022 SCHEART returned to normal operational mode at 1500 today. Thanks to all the people who supported Hurricane Ian response and provided field reports. September 28, 2022 SCHEART will be going into emergency operations mode on Friday at 0900 and remain until Ian passes. SCHEART system status: Conway UHF is operating as…
NC CARES sunsets
The NC CARES amateur radio network that served eastern North Carolina and was accessed from SCHEART on DTMF node 80 officially went out of service in September. Effective immediately, SCHEART DTMF node 80 can no longer access NC CARES network.
Pickens DMR repeater back in Service
Update: Repeater returned to service on 8/23/2022 August 18, 2022. The Pickens DMR repeater is off the air due to an internal failure. The repeater is being sent to Motorola for warranty repairs. Motorola could not provide an estimated repair time for this SCHEART partner repeater.
New DMR Partner Repeater
The KI4RAX DMR repeater located in Lugoff has joined the SCHEART DMR network. The repeater output frequency is 441.800 MHz with an input frequency of 446.800 MHz. Like all of SCHEART DMR repeaters, it uses a Color Code of 1 and carries standard talk groups. This partner repeater is connected via the StarLink global…
System Update
The upgrade of the statewide microwave network continues to affect the SCHEART repeater system. Work at all sites should be completed by November and normal connectivity restored. Additionally, localized storms have affected several partner repeater’s connections this week. Users can determine SCHEART repeater status at https://scheart.us/ under Analog tab-> IRLP status or under Digital-> DMR…
Rock Hill failure affecting sites
Posted at 9:27 PM on 6/23/2022. Repeaters at Little Mountain and Spartanburg are back on line. Work is still under way at Rock Hill Posted at 7:45 PM on 6/23/2022: An unexpected failure at Rock Hill is affecting network connectivity for repeaters at Rock Hill, Spartanburg and Little Mountain. The multi-location failure is due to…