New partnerships are formed to build SCHEART project:

The South Carolina Educational Television (SC ETV) has become the driving force for making this all possible. This system was only a vision until John Crockett, KC4YI, Manager of Transmitter Operations at SCETV took on the responsibility of the design, installation and maintenance of the infrastructure.

Through the guidance of the UHCC, the system was anticipated as being a five project however, that was before Ms Colleen Donovan joined the team. Ms Donovan was instrumental in creating additional funding opportunities that expedited the building of the SCHEART network.  In addition, we are working closely with Ms Donovan to coordinate the training initiatives for the radio response teams.

The communication infrastructure consist of a series of repeaters strategically located to support the eight public health regions in our state. These repeaters can be linked together to form a statewide emergency communications network or use as a stand alone for wide area communications. This redundant communications network is located at broadcast and microwave towers owned and operated by the South Carolina Educational Television Network (ETV), using the ETV microwave network as a communications backbone. ETV co-owns and maintain this emergency communications network for the benefit of the SCHEART initiative.