Aerial installer in Cork

parsi

I'm going to cancel Sky and have an aerial installed for RTE1/2 etc.

Has anyone recommendations for a Cork-based installer and an idea of the normal cost of this ?

Rippy

I would need more information to give an idea of cost. Some people need 2 aerials (one for RTE -VHF, one for TV3/TG4 UHF.)
You may or may not need an amplifier. South coast community TV may cover you and provide BBc,ITv and CH4.
PM me for details as advertising on boards is not allowed.

watty

If you are in City and/or have view of Spur hill it is all UHF.
If you have to use Mullaganish, then two aerials and a diplexer.

He has the Digibox for all the free channels. A FTV card can easily be obtained for C4 and Five.
See
http://bytelive.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Free+To+Air+on+Sky
(ICDGopedia)

jhegarty

Rippy wrote:

I would need more information to give an idea of cost. Some people need 2 aerials (one for RTE -VHF, one for TV3/TG4 UHF.)
You may or may not need an amplifier. South coast community TV may cover you and provide BBc,ITv and CH4.
PM me for details as advertising on boards is not allowed.

looking for same info myself , sent you a pm.....

parsi

Thanks folks.

I ended up ringing a local installer who spent 20 minutes with me on the phone convincing me to try using an internal aerial in the attic before going through the hassle of an external aerial. Got a bit of a crash course in aerials as well - I had a yellow-ended jobby which was poor but he supplied a black-tipped wide band jobby (well up on the techy terms so I am) which was a vast improvement even before it was fully oriented.

channelsurfer

need some advice too if anyone knows. basically got a guy to fix my aerials and he put an amp on the aerial on the roof with a 3 way split in the attic. problem was he left the "silver square" part loose of the aerial and although picture was perfect it jumped because this part was not in properly. Anyway He came back and said he put a new aerial up while I was out of the house. Problem is reception is now only half what it was and tv3 is wavy. any ideas what he did to mess it up? aerial is yellow pointed at longford as I am in the midlands.

Illkillya

DigiSatSys is a good installer in Cork.

Antenna

parsi wrote:

Thanks folks.
I had a yellow-ended jobby which was poor but he supplied a black-tipped wide band jobby (well up on the techy terms so I am) which was a vast improvement even before it was fully oriented.

The yellow ended one (Group B or 'mid UHF') would be the type for receiving from Collins Barracks/camp Field mast (just north of the city centre)
You were probably trying to use it for the Spur Hill transmitter - (for which its the wrong type) Spur Hill needs a green colour code (Green = Group C/D or 'high-UHF') - or a wide band UHF aerial.

Also had you the polarisation correct? Collins Barracks is vertical, whilst Spur Hill is horizontal

parsi

Nope - I was pointing towards the barracks and I had the correct polarisation all right (spikes up).