DTT Advice

Terrontress

Hi Everyone.

I have been reading this thread with interest but am yet to post.

I live in Donabate and at the weekend I bought a UK DVB box from Argos in Sprucefield for £20.

I have tried to pick up digital signals on a standard unamplified rabbit ears and have been unable to get anything.

If I put the aerial out the window I get somewhere around 24UHF 8 channels named CH_1 to CH_7 and one called Station Name. None of these have any picture or sound.

Can anyone point out if I am doing anything wrong or suggest anything.

I am unable to get a strong analogue terrestrial signal.

sirpsycho

I think all the stations are now encrypted

I bought a box a few weeks ago and I got almost the same as you but when I checked the 'show encrypted' all the stations(rte, sky sports, bbcs etc) appeared but you need to enter the key to decode them

Terrontress

And does anyone know the key?

DMC

The RTÉ/TV3/TG4 mux (on channel 54) are not encrypted. Its free to air.

The stuff you are getting on channel 26 are the DVB-H mobile handheld trial, no DTT box will decode them.

If it is possible, try manually tuning to Channel 54 and see what you get.

"The key" is getting a trial box with cam and card from the Department.

Terrontress

Thanks for the advice, I appreciate.

I currently am forced by my property developer to rely on Magnet Networks. To call them unreliable would be doing Magnet a great service. Hopeless is perhaps more apt.

It would be great to get something else to work for when Magnet goes down.

Antenna

Terrontress wrote:

H
If I put the aerial out the window I get somewhere around 24UHF 8 channels named CH_1 to CH_7 and one called Station Name. None of these have any picture or sound.

Can anyone point out if I am doing anything wrong or suggest anything.

I am unable to get a strong analogue terrestrial signal.

you would have to have the aerial at a south facing window to start with and an unblocked path to get a decent signal (from the transmitter in the Dublin Mountains)

Terrontress

No luck at all, I'm afraid.

I also took it to a friend's house in Portobello and was unable to pick up anything of any use there.

It is amazing how backward Ireland is on this compared to the UK. Looks like I may move house or else continue with my stop / start, non lip-synched, incorrect epg, missing channels Magnet Networks service.

BrianD

As I mentioned on the stickie thread - get the box to scan for all channels including encrypted channels This will be in the configuration settings. You should then be able to 'see' all channel names and RTE1/2/TV3/TG4 will be in the clear.

Anybody noticed that the EPG is no longer updated?