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Lost channels? Look here for transmitter/reception issues

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    #422
    hot buttered scones
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭hot buttered scones


    No problems here in Cork City from CH21 mullaganish and also getting CH 45 from spur hill


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    #423
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Still no improvement


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    #424
    RonanAnthony
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭RonanAnthony


    sligojoek wrote: »
    Still no improvement
    Yeah mines has actually got worse I think. Tv3 is terrible and tg4 is unwatchable and no signal on saorview at all.


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    #425
    The Cush
    Registered Users Posts: 15,481 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    This from Aertel 169 RTÉNL Technical Information
    Short Term signal outage on 10th July (UHF channel 54 to UHF channel 30)

    In order to undertake the necessary works viewers in the greater Dublin area that receive the SAORVIEW service from the Three Rock transmission site will, unfortunately, experience a service outage from 09:00 to 13:00 hrs on the 10th July. When the service restores at 14:00 hrs affected receivers must be re-scanned to receive SAORVIEW service.

    This change coincides with the EPG change also planned for this date.



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    #426
    Pat Gleeson
    Registered Users Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Pat Gleeson


    The Cush wrote: »
    This from Aertel 169 RTÉNL Technical Information

    ... This change coincides with the EPG change also planned for this date. ..
    Anyone know what this may entail ?


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    #427
    Gerry Wicklow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,538 ✭✭✭Gerry Wicklow


    Pat Gleeson wrote: »
    ... This change coincides with the EPG change also planned for this date. ..
    Anyone know what this may entail ?
    They are swapping round 3E and News Now to keep the non-paying parasites happy. :mad:


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    #428
    The Cush
    Registered Users Posts: 15,481 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Pat Gleeson wrote: »
    ... This change coincides with the EPG change also planned for this date. ..
    Anyone know what this may entail ?

    Thread here - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=79560715#post79560715


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    #429
    Antenna
    Registered Users Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭Antenna


    Outages of Saorview and TV3/TG4 analogue planned for the next couple of days from Mt Leinster:

    Service Notification:
    RTÉNL - Mt Leinster, Co. Carlow

    Due to essential engineering works, our Mt. Leinster transmitter will be off the air from 8am to 2pm on 4th & 5th July & from 12noon to 5pm on 6th July.

    This essential work will affect SaorView and UHF analogue TV services.

    RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.


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    #430
    RonanAnthony
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭RonanAnthony


    Antenna wrote: »
    Outages of Saorview and TV3/TG4 analogue planned for the next couple of days from Mt Leinster:

    Service Notification:
    RTÉNL - Mt Leinster, Co. Carlow

    Due to essential engineering works, our Mt. Leinster transmitter will be off the air from 8am to 2pm on 4th & 5th July & from 12noon to 5pm on 6th July.

    This essential work will affect SaorView and UHF analogue TV services.

    RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.

    Any word on the status of Truskmore Sligo?? When is the signal power going to be turned back up??


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    #431
    marno21
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,345 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    Engineering works at 3 transposer stations in Co. Cork this week, likely related to the Saorview rollout

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    #432
    Antenna
    Registered Users Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭Antenna


    Mt Leinster has planned outages for Saorview and analogue TV3/TG4 every day Monday-to-Friday next week

    Service Notification:
    RTÉNL - Mt. Leinster, Co. Carlow

    Due to essential preparatory engineering works, our Mt. Leinster transmitter will be off the air from 8am to 12pm & 2pm to 5pm daily between 9th & 13th July.

    This essential work will affect SaorView & UHF analogue TV services from this transmitter & all associated relay sites.
    RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.



    Also Truskmore all services liable to reduced power notice for next week Tuesday to Friday:

    Service Notification:
    RTÉNL - Truskmore, Co. Sligo

    Due to essential maintenance our Truskmore transmitter may be running on reduced power 9:30am to 5:30pm daily from 10th to 13th July.

    This essential work will affect SaorView, analogue TV & FM radio services from this transmitter.

    RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.


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    #433
    MarkK
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭MarkK


    169-13.gif

    They also need to notify the people in Rosscarbery, that they are being moved to Co. Waterford :p


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    #434
    Drackedie
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭Drackedie


    Hi,
    I live in Clare, believe I am getting Saorview from Mullaghanish.

    Today I am having some strange problems - audio on all channels is out of sync; audio from previous channel stays on for a few seconds when I switch channels; and anything that I record (to USB) has no audio.

    I have a Bush B650 STB.

    Just wondering if anyone else has had these kind of problems, or if maybe they are related to the EPG changes that are taking place?

    Thanks,
    D


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    #435
    The Cush
    Registered Users Posts: 15,481 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Drackedie wrote: »
    I live in Clare, believe I am getting Saorview from Mullaghanish.

    Today I am having some strange problems - audio on all channels is out of sync; audio from previous channel stays on for a few seconds when I switch channels; and anything that I record (to USB) has no audio.

    I have a Bush B650 STB.

    Just wondering if anyone else has had these kind of problems, or if maybe they are related to the EPG changes that are taking place?

    No problems here from Mullaghanish, try a factory reset/restore defaults or similar.


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    #436
    Drackedie
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭Drackedie


    The Cush wrote: »
    No problems here from Mullaghanish, try a factory reset/restore defaults or similar.

    I couldn't find how to do a reset on the box, but did a rescan and all seems good again.

    And RTE News Now and 3e have swapped places...

    Thanks!


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    #437
    The Cush
    Registered Users Posts: 15,481 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    marno21 wrote: »
    Engineering works at 3 transposer stations in Co. Cork this week, likely related to the Saorview rollout

    Looks like 3 of the 5 sites remaining to be upgraded - Leap, Timoleague and Rosscarbery. Not sure where the other 2 are.

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    #438
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    Think there's a problem with Saorview from Monaghan today, was off completely earlier, now seems to be weak signal.

    I can't even use analogue TG4 as a reference to check the performance of my own aerial, as that channel has been missing for the best part of a week.


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    #439
    RonanAnthony
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭RonanAnthony


    Peter Rhea wrote: »
    Think there's a problem with Saorview from Monaghan today, was off completely earlier, now seems to be weak signal.

    I can't even use analogue TG4 as a reference to check the performance of my own aerial, as that channel has been missing for the best part of a week.
    Mines is the exact same but I get mine from Truskmore Sligo. I haven't had Soarview since the middle of June and my TV3 analogue signal is very poor and TG4 is just picture and no sound. Saorview signal on mines is now 0% and it used to be around 70% strength and 100% quality.
    They must be working on a lot of transmitters and turned the power down.


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    #440
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    My own is back to watchable levels now. I asked a few others if their reception was affected, but they weren't watching at the time I experienced the outage & they weren't sure if their reception had deteriorated since then.

    Edit: It's dropped back to next to nothing again since about midnight, suppose if this persists & I can't confirm a problem at the transmitter, I'll have to climb up for a closer look at the aerial. It's pretty annoying that the only other thing the aerial in question receives is TG4 analogue & it seems to be on one of its regular 'breaks' (these have been occuring even since before Saorview started, obviously nobody misses it).


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    #441
    jimfinoc
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭jimfinoc


    Heard something on the radio the morning about having to retune your saorview box today. Anybody hear it. I have had no RTE for last 2 days in N. Roscommon.


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    #442
    The Cush
    Registered Users Posts: 15,481 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    jimfinoc wrote: »
    Heard something on the radio the morning about having to retune your saorview box today. Anybody hear it. I have had no RTE for last 2 days in N. Roscommon.

    For the epg change and frequency change in Dublin.

    http://www.saorview.ie/news/saorview-rescan-requested-after-2pm-on-10th-july/
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056686609
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056686543

    Your problems could be related to the ongoing maintenance at the Truskmore transmitter in Sligo - http://www.rte.ie/aerteldigital/desktopxhtml/169-8.html

    Give RTÉNL a call - http://www.rte.ie/aerteldigital/desktopxhtml/169-1.html


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    #443
    danjo-xx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,393 ✭✭✭danjo-xx


    Gone here in Waterford city this afternoon going to do a rescan.

    edit: all back without doing a scan but jumbled up :)


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    #444
    RonanAnthony
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭RonanAnthony


    My saorview still not working. From Truskmore Sligo. Any1 else getting theirs from here? What is the new channel number? Is it still 53??


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    #445
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    Three Rock is the only transmitter that changed frequency.


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    #446
    newleaf
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭newleaf


    All explained here though it hardly seems worth the effort for two channels to switch. Maybe there's more to it but it's a nuisance. Lots of people won't have heard the announcements, and some of those that do won't know how to retune.
    http://www.saorview.ie/news/how-to-re-scan-saorview-approved-box-or-tv/


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    #447
    Smfm
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Smfm


    RonanAnthony wrote: »
    My saorview still not working. From Truskmore Sligo. Any1 else getting theirs from here? What is the new channel number? Is it still 53??

    It's still 53, Saorview appears to be down, I've experienced a few homes with the signal level ok, but the quality below par, a case of wait and see......even repalced a 13 dB C/D Amp with a 28 dB, made no difference to the quality..... :cool:

    Saorview ask that we retune out Tv's or set-top boxs after July 10th.......... don't think this will have any bearing on the problem, apart from re-arranging the channel line-up.......


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    #448
    marclt
    Registered Users Posts: 844 ✭✭✭marclt


    @Danjo - work is being carried out on Mt. Leinster this week with saorview and analogue UHF affected. The work is also having a knock on affect on relay transmitters, so I'd assume Forth Mt., the site in Waterford etc is also off line.

    I wonder will there be any back up feed for the other sites? If the power outages of a few years ago were to be repeated at Mt. Leinster (in the snow), I'm sure RTE would want to ensure that services at the smaller sites could be maintained?


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    #449
    MarkK
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭MarkK


    marclt wrote: »
    I wonder will there be any back up feed for the other sites? If the power outages of a few years ago were to be repeated at Mt. Leinster (in the snow), I'm sure RTE would want to ensure that services at the smaller sites could be maintained?

    Isn't Saorsat meant to be a backup feed for the Transmitters?


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    #450
    zg3409
    Registered Users Posts: 6,567 ✭✭✭zg3409


    MarkK wrote: »
    Isn't Saorsat meant to be a backup feed for the Transmitters?

    In theory yes, and possilby in practice yes. However as they do not carry TV3 nor 3E then if it was used for backup these channels would be lost.

    In the past they have used Sky boxes as temporary backups. Nearly every site seems to have a small dish. However for proper Saorview seamless backup they would need a backup of the entire stream of all channels and content etc, which neither Sky nor Saorsat can provide.

    I think the main sites are linked via microwave in a loop system, so if any one link becomes faulty, the system can re-route the signals around the other direction.

    It is a pity Saorsat cannot be used as it is ideal for the job. It could also carry all the national radio stations and more.


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    #451
    MarkK
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭MarkK


    zg3409 wrote: »
    In theory yes, and possilby in practice yes. However as they do not carry TV3 nor 3E then if it was used for backup these channels would be lost.
    Indeed, but that's TV3's choice.
    Doesn't stop it being a back up system.


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