UPDATE 10\/7\/2024 @ 1634\u00a0 The SCHEART network has returned to normal operations and is available for licensed operators to use.\u00a0 Thanks to the amateur radio community for supporting the Hurricane Helene response effort.\u00a0 73 Roger<\/p>\n
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UPDATE 10\/6\/2024 @ 1350 The SCHEART network continues to support recovery operations at the request of SCEMD.\u00a0 At 8:00 PM tonight, the ARES net will provide a statewide status update.\u00a0 At the end of the net, the SCHEART system will remain unlinked until Monday morning when the following repeaters will be linked: Columbia, Greenwood, Greenville, Caesars Head, Spartanburg Edgefield, Beech Island, Aiken Regional, and Sumter.\u00a0 Links to these repeaters will be dropped around 08:00 PM.\u00a0 The analog and digital systems will revert to normal operations and are available to everyone Monday evening.\u00a0 \u00a0Special thanks to all amateurs who have supported Hurricane Helene response operations\u00a0<\/p>\n
UPDATE 10\/4\/2024 @ 1500 The power situation continues to improve across the state.\u00a0 The State EOC continues to be staffed 24 hours a day.\u00a0 The following repeaters will remain linked over the weekend to support operations: Columbia VHF\/UHF, Caesars Head VHF, Greenville VHF\/UHF, Spartanburg VHF\/UHF, Greenwood UHF,\u00a0 Edgefield VHF, Aiken UHF, Beech Island VHF\/UHF, Sumter VHF, Rock Hill UHF, and Barnwell VHF\/UHF.<\/p>\n
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UPDATE 9\/29\/24 @ 20:30\u00a0 Recovery efforts continue.\u00a0 The western part of he state is still experiencing major power disruptions with some counties having less than 10% of citizens with electricity.\u00a0 Additionally, our neighbors to the north are experiencing historical flooding, with widespread power and water disruptions.\u00a0 SCEMD is requesting SCHEART remain in emergency operational mode and support ongoing communication efforts.\u00a0 At 21:30 today, the analog repeater system will be configured for statewide communications as follows: Caesars Head VHF, Greenville (Paris Mountain) VHF\/UHF, Spartanburg VHF\/UHF, Rock Hill VHF\/UHF, Greenwood UHF, Columbia VHF\/UHF, Beech Island VHF\/UHF, Barnwell VHF\/UHF, Whitehall VHF\/UHF, and Sumter VHF. At this time Edgefield VHF and Aiken RMC UHF are experiencing communication link issues.\u00a0 Once the problems are cleared, they will join the western link.\u00a0 Any SCHEART repeater not mention above will return to normal operations.\u00a0 The DMR repeater system will remain in emergency mode.\u00a0 Be advised, the western link configuration may change as needed.<\/p>\n
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UPDATE 9\/28\/24 @ 0900 Recovery efforts from Helene are continuing.\u00a0 Widespread power outages continues to affect large parts of the state.\u00a0 The SCHEART repeater network will continue to support response efforts and system link configurations will be adjusted as required.\u00a0 Currently the following repeaters are supporting the recovery. Columbia, Beech Island, Edgefield, Greenwood, Whitehall, Barnwell, Greenville, Caesars Head, Rock Hill, and Spartanburg (when ETV can reach the site).\u00a0 This may change during the day.\u00a0 There are concerns that generators supporting communications will start running out of fuel since roads to many sites remain closed.\u00a0 We appreciate everyone’s cooperation and support during this effort.<\/p>\n
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UPDATE 9\/27\/24 @0700.\u00a0 Helene is creating widespread power outages across the state.\u00a0 SCHEART has transferred to full emergency operational mode for DMR and analog repeaters are linked statewide.<\/p>\n
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SCEMD has requested a statewide link of the SCHEART system\u00a0 be established to support Hurricane Helene efforts.\u00a0 The VHF and selected UHF repeaters will be linked statewide today and will be released as conditions warrant. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hurricane","category-repeaters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19291"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19428,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions\/19428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}