The W4CHR 145.3100 MHz Chester Amateur Radio Emergency Service 2 meter repeater is located in Chester, South Carolina near the Chester Regional Medical Center.  The C.A.R.E.S. repeater covers Chester County and most of the surrounding Lancaster, Fairfield, Union and York, South Carolina Counties.  The W4CHR repeater * 145.3100 MHz * has a * (-) negative offset * PL tone of 167.9 * and can be accessed by EchoLink station * W4CHR-R * node 307645 *.  Heavy usage of repeater on Wednesday nights starting at 8:30 PM EST for "The Piedmont Link" Net.  

For more info about C.A.R.E.S. please see our website www.W4CHR.com

Feed equipment is a Kenwood TM-281A transceiver, Raspberry Pi 2 Module B running Darkice and has UPS back up.