SCHEART would like to give a big thanks to members of the Cherokee County Guardians for driving several 100 miles and spending many hours fox hunting the signal interfering with our Spartanburg VHF repeater. The continuous 24/7 transmit started March 14 and was linked to a defective radio. The Fox hunt crew actually changed out…
The Spartanburg VHF repeater is out of service due to an equipment failure. A trouble ticket has been submitted and engineering advised. The Spartanburg UHF repeater is operating normally and should be used while repairs are being implemented on the VHF repeater. The UHF repeater will be linked for weekend travel.
UPDATE: A network firmware update was pushed this morning which affected Wallace, Orangeburg and Whitehall IRLP boxes. Units are currently hug and will not reconnect to the network. Engineering is working to restore connectivity. A network issue affected the following sites which are offline this morning (3/30/23): Charleston Wallace VHF/UHF and Orangeburg VHF/UHF repeaters. Greenville…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
The Charleston VHF repeater 146.760 MHz will be operating in a stand alone mode in support of a bike ride on Saturday from 0600 until 1800.
As of October 25th the Columbia VHF repeater has been repaired and linking re-established. System back to normal. As of October 15th the Columbia UHF repeater linking has been fixed. The VHF repeater is still operating in local mode without linking and will not be repaired until the week of October 21st. As of…
On Monday October 21st at 9:13 AM, SCETV Engineering repaired the equipment in Columbia that inhibited the SCHEART linking capability on Sunday. Statewide linking is back to normal operation. However, the Columbia VHF repeater linking is still out pending work at the site which is planned for this week. On Sunday October 20th, the SCHEART…