The South Carolina Department of Public Health will be conducting a simulated healthcare exercise on Friday, April 11, 2025. The exercise will include elements all four SCDPH regions and Medical Reserve Corps volunteers. SCHEART has been requested to support communications for this exercise which will focus on a major power failure event. Amateur Radio…
The 2025 Statewide Full Scale Exercise will be happening on March 11, 12 and 15th. The exercise scenario will cover a long term power outage with disruption of normal fuel delivery systems. SCHEART has been requested to support the communications portion of the exercise. The SCHEART analog system will be linked statewide on these days…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Engineering will be working on the Greenville Paris Mountain SCHEART repeater antennas on Thursday, August 22, 2024, which will result in both VHF and UHF repeaters being offline after the Healthcare Net.. The tower crew will be returning the antennas to tower from their temporary locations. The crew will attempt to minimize the time the…