** Saturday’s testing location has changed. **
We’ve had to move the testing location to the Masonic Lodge at 1310 Dutch Fork Rd. Irmo, SC 29063. Please email midlandsve@gmail.com for questions.
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September training and testing.
SCHEART will be offering Ham (Amateur) Radio classes in September of 2023. This is for Technician, General and Extra. All classes will be running from September 18th to September 22nd from 6pm to 9pm. Some classes will not take the whole week but will finish when all the material is covered. These classes run concurrently. You…
Awendaw Repeater Site Problem
Update 5/31/2023 afternoon. SCHEART VHF/UHF and DMR have resumed normal operations. The SCHEART VHF/UHF and DMR repeaters at Awendaw are back on the air with full coverage. The VHF repeater is connected to the statewide network. Statewide connectivity for the UHF and DMR repeaters should happen shortly. UPDATE 5/26/2023: SCETV tower crew is wrapping up…
Memorial Net for N4UFP
On Monday, May 22 at 8:20 PM local time, a memorial net will be conducted on the SCHEART repeater system in honor of Marc Tarplee, N4UFP. Marc has been ARRL Section Manager for South Carolina since 2010 and has been a big champion of Amateur Radio and the SCHEART program. Unfortunately, we lost Marc on…
SCHEART Ops plan for 2023 FSE
The 2023 state Full Scale Exercise (FSE) will occur on March 8th and 9th with a communication exercise on March 11. The SCHEART repeater network will be configured to support the exercise as follows. The DMR network will go into emergency operational mode shortly after noon on March 8 and remain until 1600 Local on…
APRS Operation Is Not Allowed On SCHEART
The SCHEART DMR network does not support APRS. All operators should ensure they do not beacon on the SCHEART DMR network. Some DMR radios also support APRS functions and revert to the last transmit channel selected when sending their APRS data. When an operator selects any SCHEART DMR talk group, the radio starts sending APRS…
VE testing in Sumter
The Sumter Amateur Radio Association (SARA) will be conducting amateur radio (ham radio) exams on Saturday, May 6th, 9:00 AM at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 2325 Camden Hwy, Sumter, SC. There is still time to register to take a ham radio exam there…contact Art, ahwild@aol.com.
March 2023 Ham Radio testing and training
SCHEART will be offering Ham (Amateur) Radio classes in March of 2023. This is for Technician, General and Extra. All classes will be running from March 20th through 24th. from 6pm to 9pm. Some classes will not take the whole week, but will finish when all the material is covered. These classes run concurrently. You can…
Statewide Conference Issue
Update: 10/15/2022 @ 3:00 PM. Engineering determined a server update cause the unit to hang which took down the SCHEART Conference backup bridge. The Conference main bridge experienced a hardware failure a failure a couple of weeks ago and was being rebuilt but it wasn’t ready to go online before the Wednesday net. SCETV has…
Columbia Downtown DMR relocation
UPDATE 4/27/2023: The Columbia Downtown repeater is back on the air at the new location which is in West Columbia. It’s name will not change since it is the repeater closest to downtown. The Columbia Downtown DMR repeater is being relocated off the Capital Center location. It will be off the air until installed at…