HEARS - Hospital Emergency Amateur Radio System - N4HRS

About HEARS

HEARS is the Hospital Emergency Amateur Radio System, historically presented online at N4HRS.org.

Recovered site material shows a linked amateur-radio repeater network spanning North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. The network has supported wide-area amateur-radio communication, routine nets, and emergency-preparedness activities.

Recovered historical context: the April 2021 archive described an analog network that had already served for more than 15 years and an infrastructure footprint spread “many miles apart across three states.”

Network administration & contributors

Many archived posts were authored by Derek, KD4ADL. Historical posts also credit Tucker, WG8E with system integration, repeater-controller configuration, and assistance with Virginia and Farmville system expansion.

Emergency preparedness

The archive includes examples of HEARS repeaters being used for emergency exercises. A January 2017 post, for example, announced that the Virginia HEARS repeaters would be used for a Simulated Emergency Test and that the NC and VA systems would be separated during the exercise.

What has been recovered

  • Original HEARS / N4HRS logo supplied from a local copy
  • December 2024 front-page appearance and navigation
  • Archived DMR and analog repeater sidebar listings
  • Front-page posts and seven pages of historical post indexes in Wayback
  • Historical information on DMR migration, repeater maintenance, site additions, and network linking

This page intentionally avoids inventing organizational details that have not yet been recovered from the archive.