The ETV Endowment established the John Crockett Engineering Internship in 2016 to honor John’s outstanding service to SCETV and the state of South Carolina. Interns work in ETV’s engineering department in Columbia. Donations to the fund may be made online at etvendowment.org or mailed to: ETV Endowment of South Carolina John Crockett Engineering Internship 401…
October 1, 2022 SCHEART returned to normal operational mode at 1500 today. Thanks to all the people who supported Hurricane Ian response and provided field reports. September 28, 2022 SCHEART will be going into emergency operations mode on Friday at 0900 and remain until Ian passes. SCHEART system status: Conway UHF is operating as…
Hurricane Fiona has passed us by here in South Carolina. Hurricane Gaston has graciously decided to stay way out to sea. That leaves us right now with Tropical Depression 09 which right now is south of the Dominican Republic. It is too early to really tell where this storm will go…but a couple of the…
Due to the Gamecocks playing this Saturday, we’ll have to move testing to Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, 1541 Lake Murray Blvd. Columbia SC 29063. What 3 Words location: ///twigs.idiom.quotations
The food drive is for canned goods and non perishables with an emphasis on Thanksgiving dinner. All proceeds will be given to Christian Charities here in Sumter. Donations should be brought to the October SARA meeting, or make other arrangements with George KK4F, President of the Sumter Amateur Radio Association. Things that Christian Charities looks…
The NC CARES amateur radio network that served eastern North Carolina and was accessed from SCHEART on DTMF node 80 officially went out of service in September. Effective immediately, SCHEART DTMF node 80 can no longer access NC CARES network.
Update: Repeater returned to service on 8/23/2022 August 18, 2022. The Pickens DMR repeater is off the air due to an internal failure. The repeater is being sent to Motorola for warranty repairs. Motorola could not provide an estimated repair time for this SCHEART partner repeater.
The KI4RAX DMR repeater located in Lugoff has joined the SCHEART DMR network. The repeater output frequency is 441.800 MHz with an input frequency of 446.800 MHz. Like all of SCHEART DMR repeaters, it uses a Color Code of 1 and carries standard talk groups. This partner repeater is connected via the StarLink global…
Due to the Gamecocks game, testing has moved to Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, 1541 Lake Murray Blvd. Irmo, SC 29063. SCHEART will be offering Ham (Amateur) Radio classes in September of 2022. This is for Technician, General and Extra. All classes will be running from September 19th through 23rd. from 6pm to 9pm. Some classes will not…
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…