South Carolina Healthcare Emergency Amateur Radio Team
KD4JQJ On April 13 2017, the DHEC PeeDee region will conduct a Redundant Communications Exercise focusing primarily on hospitals and healthcare facilities. The main focus will be on hospitals but all regional healtcare facilities may participate. This will be an amateur radio exercise using the scenario that all other means of communications have failed. SCHEART volunteers … Read more
Independent operation of the Local Talk Group is now enabled. Locals are no longer linked on the system. Additional programming updates will be occurring to ensure each Local transmission appears on the Last Heard listing on NCPRN website. At this time (January 1) not all locals are showing up but should be corrected within 48 … Read more
Three months ago it was announced that the SCHEART DMR system added a new talk group named SC Call. This talk group operates on Time Slot 1 with a code of 27510 and covers all SCHEART repeaters. Users wishing to reach stations outside the coverage of their local repeater, can use SC Call to make … Read more
The SC Call talk group was implemented last quarter. This talk group uses time slot 1 and allows users within SC to make contact, have a short conversation or move to another chat group for a long conversation. With full implementation of SC Call and the addition of repeaters at some local hospitals, effective this … Read more
