Cl[air|er|are]mo(u)nt Ca(i)rn

L1011

What is this high-powered RTE television, radio and DAB transmitter actually called? RTÉ, the DCMNR and Dail debates use all three intermittently...

Ulsterman 1690

Would there be a Gaelic and an English spelling perhaps ?

watty

So what's the third? from Ellen Mannan?

Ulsterman 1690

watty wrote:

So what's the third? from Ellen Mannan?

Different dialects ?
Shelta ?
Or just simple mis-spelling ?

watty

It is very widespread and frequent.

Of course you get it on lots of Irish place names, sometimes in the same area the fingerboard signs to a place will have variant spellings.

Mayo Exile

According to sheet 36 of the Ordnance Survey's Discovery Series its called Clermont Cairn. But looking at the map the mast might actually be on Black Mountain. Having been up at the site there is a pile of stones to the south of the mast itself. This is meant to be a grave marker or cairn (anybody know the exact term?) hence the name Clermont Cairn. Any geographers or map makers looking at these pages might be able to give a definitive answer??

Ulsterman 1690

But looking at the map the mast might actually be on Black Mountain

Now I am confused

watty

Obviously not the one beside Divis. There are LOTS of places called Black Mountain.

Munster seems to have 4 or 5 peaks called Seefin. Caused me no end of grief finding out which one to plot its repeater coverage.

deaglan169

hi could someone tell the frequency in mhz for tv3 on claremount cairn,also while on the subject i have poor reception on all chanels from there i think it is down to my aerial combiner box it says for group a & e combining is this the right one,my group a input is fine thats divis tower analouge and freeview,but group e isnt perfect even thought the signal is good it is receiving all irish channels from claremount.any help would be great.

declan

Antenna

deaglan169 wrote:

hi could someone tell the frequency in mhz for tv3 on claremount cairn,also while on the subject i have poor reception on all chanels from there i think it is down to my aerial combiner box it says for group a & e combining is this the right one,
declan

Clermont Carn
MHz Vision carrier
719.29 RTE1
751.29 RTE2
831.29 TV3
847.29 TG4

Group E is channels 35 to 69 - which includes all the channels for this transmitter

Interesting reading and photos of Clermont Carn here ! :
http://mountainviews.ie/mv/index.php?mtnindex=434

byte

That's Ch52 (RTE1) up to Ch68 (TG4).

Could you be more specific regarding your combiner (make/model) and what it's used in conjunction with (1 suitable aerial should be able to pick up all 4 Irish terrestrial channels).?

deaglan169

i cant remember the exact make and model of the combiner i have its very similar to those made by fringe electronics check out there website www.fringeelectronics.co.uk and select products - passive range - diplexer uhf,its very similar to what im using hope this helps

byte

Is there not a model number on it somewhere?

Triax do a few models that would suit, like the 5052 model, where the E side starts at Ch52.

I'm not fully convinced your combiner is at fault, though it is possible.