Price for terrestrial install

serotonin_sam

What can I expect to pay for a standard terrestrial install - two storey (down the country). Just want a guideline before I give one of the lads in the golden pages a ring.

bigpaddy2004

You are looking at between €200-€280. It depends alot on your location.

Ulsterman 1690

Also depends on what part of Ireland you live in and whether you want UK channels (assuming theyre available)

DMC

It could also depend if you need two aerials (VHF for RTÉ, UHF for TV3/TG4)
A rough location would help, but also, have a look at neighbours aeriels next to you.

Ulsterman 1690

And of course how strong the signals are in your area i.e. whether you can get all four channels a cheapo 10-element wideband or whether you need a more elaborate aerial a tall pole amplifiers and wotnot.

(VHF for RTÉ, UHF for TV3/TG4)

Ive also seen setups with two UHF aerials. One for RTE/TG4 and one for TV3 (from a different transmitter)

cast_iron

Or even 3 aerials, one for VHF/UHF RTE, one for UHF TV3/TG4 and one for English stations.
And if an amplifier is needed and distribution amp.....not much change out of €400 - €450.

construct06

what is a 10-element wideband aerial and whats its advantage?

L1011

A relatively small UHF antenna that does the entire UHF band (at a lower gain) as opposed to specific groups (at higher gain). The advantage of having something like it is that it'd be a lot cheaper than requiring two or even three antennae (or FOUR as I've seen in Donegal - grouped UHF for the north, grouped UHF for TV3 off Truskmore, VHF for RTE1/2 off Truskmore and another grouped UHF for TG4 off their local relay that gave worse RTE1/2 picture than Truskmore VHF. No, I don't know how it was multiplexed together either...)

lawhec

MYOB wrote:

A relatively small UHF antenna that does the entire UHF band (at a lower gain) as opposed to specific groups (at higher gain). The advantage of having something like it is that it'd be a lot cheaper than requiring two or even three antennae (or FOUR as I've seen in Donegal - grouped UHF for the north, grouped UHF for TV3 off Truskmore, VHF for RTE1/2 off Truskmore and another grouped UHF for TG4 off their local relay that gave worse RTE1/2 picture than Truskmore VHF. No, I don't know how it was multiplexed together either...)

Sounds like total madness! :eek: Surely in the case of TG4 the aerial for TV3 pointing to Truskmore should have been acceptable?

byte

I'd imagine the local relay has better TG4 picture than Trusky, but does not carry TV3, thus the aerial for TV3.

*shrug*