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SCDPH MNS Exercise April 11, 2025

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…

Remembering John Crockett W3KH

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…

PHRC or MRC?

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…