No SCHEART Healthcare net on Dec 24 and 31
There will be no SCHEART Healthcare Net on Thursday, December 24 and December 31. Normal Healthcare Nets return on January 7, 2021
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Greenville Paris Mountain Service Outage
UPDATE 1/13/2021 The VHF and UHF repeaters are back on the air using a temporary antenna installed on the roof of the building. Coverage will be reduced. The repeater antennas will be re-installed on the tower as soon as possible. UPDATE 12/15/2020- 1530- The tower construction work at Paris Mountain was interrupted today when…
No SCHEART Healthcare Net on Thanksgiving
There will be no SCHEART Healthcare Net on Thursday, November 26th, Thanksgiving Day. Members of SCHEART wish everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving. The Healthcare net will return on Thursday, December 3rd.
Charleston Awendaw VHF October 18, 2020
The Charleston Awendaw repeater will be de-linked from the statewide weekend net at 0655 AM on Sunday, October 18, so it can be used to support a charity bike ride. The repeater will return to the statewide network before the Sunday night ARES Net.
Support Ticket Link
10/13/2020 Update: The Support Ticket Link has been restored. It is available for reporting SCHEART system problems. Please be as clear as possible when reporting a problem. If you have any issues with the ticket system, please use the contact us link. Thanks. SCHEART Support Team The support ticket link is unavailable while IT investigates…
DMR Operation
8/18/2020 Update: The DMR operation is returning to normal. Due to the firewall security issue, several repeater sites lost connectivity and needed to be rebooted in order to re-establish a link to the conference bridge. Site visits have been occurring over the past few days and the last couple of sites should be back by…
Return to Normal Operations
08/04/2020 @ 7:14 AM – Isaias has exited the state leaving minimum damage to the communication infrastructure. The SCHEART system will return to normal operation at 0800 this morning. Thanks to all the amateur radio operators who assisted agencies and hospitals during the event and to the operators who were standing by to help if…
SCHEART ops under Isaias
At noon on Monday, August 3, 2020, the SCHEART network will be configured to support Hurricane/TS Isaias operation. The analog VHF/UHF repeaters will be linked statewide. The DMR will revert to emergency operations mode. This limits talk group communication to South Carolina. The SCHEART network will remain in this configuration until the storm clears the…
Greenville Paris Mountain Link Failure Update 6/5/20
Engineering restored network connectivity to the site by repairing one of the two microwave paths. Work is on-going to regain full diversity to the site. Operation this week with the single path has been very stable and the SCHEART link it back in service Due to a failure of the microwave antenna at Paris Mountain,…
SCHEART DMR Talk Group Change
SCHEART has been notified that TAC1, TAC310 and DCI/Brandmiester talk groups will no longer be freely available after April 30th. The decision was made by the host of these talk groups who distributes the audio connection to other C-bridge networks. Due to the growing number of feeds and costs incurred in providing the talk group…