South Carolina Healthcare Emergency Amateur Radio Team
KD4JQJ On May 9th, there will be a National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) exercise conducted in the Columbia area. Simulated causalities will arrive at the Columbia airport during the day and be sent to area hospitals to test surge capabilities. Approximately 160 people will be dispatched to 13 area hospitals. Amateur Radio will provide back up … Read more
Another DMR repeater will be connecting to the SCHEART DMR C-bridge in the next few weeks. The Glassy Mountain (near Pickens, SC) DMR repeater is operating in local only mode pending completion of a network connection to the mountain. The Clemson, SC DMR repeater is now connected to the network and provides improved local area … Read more
The 2017 edition of the South Carolina ARES/RACES Auxiliary Communications Tactical Communications Guide has been published. The new guide provides updated organizational information for ARES and SCHEART network. You may download the guide from the ARES website at http://ares-sc.org/
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