Map of DVB-T in B-NL-Lux-D

Frisian

Just found that map on a german website: Senderkarte BeNeLux Works properly with IE only, my Firefox shows slightly wrong locations.
Click on Tx and you get more details. Check out Duesseldorf Rhinetower, where you can have a grand view while having lunch.:D
Wouldn't it be great if someone could create such a map for Ireland? (Well, for analogue that is :mad: )

Sponge Bob

It cannot be done until you find out where all the live deflectors are including the deflectors now run by RTE themslves after they were abandoned ....on a mountain in Kerry maybe ... and which are known as the "Self Helps"

Neither Comreg nor RTE will be of any assistance in this matter so it will appear that coverage in Ireland, for analogue, is worse than it is.

Radio Mobile would do the known transmitter and known relays , these are here but you need a contour map ?? too .

If you do that for analogue you can then make an assumption for each with DTT running on UHF . That will be sobering. It will show 20-30% of the state cannot get DTT from an existing transmitter or relay .

watty

Except for Analogue TV3, where the coverage is worse than they say.

Radio Mobile can import free elevation data accurate enough for VHF/UHF. It's at WiFi and up that the free data isn't good enough.

Even taking into account self help schemes, RTE coverage in terms of Rabbits ears in Cities or chimney aerials is very poor compared with UK.

All the original sites more suited to cheap wide coverage on Band I or semi-fringe on Band III

Limerick City till Woodcock added (late 80s?) had only poor quality Fringe reception and many of the RTE relays such as Woodcock are only 100W instead of 1KW or more.




I did this with RadioMobile http://www.wattystuff.net/amateur/ei2mrepeaters.htm

These are Optimistic 145MHz voice Repeater coverage, so not representative of TV coverage, unless you have Megawatts on a 1000ft pole.


Click on a dot such as (8) Limerick
And get http://www.wattystuff.net/amateur/limerickcoverage.htm
(A bit slow on dialup)

lawhec

I did several maps out last year for some of the main transmitting stations in Ireland (N&S), some of which can be viewed on Richard Logue's Irish TV site, though I'm re-evaluating some of the parameters over time to make them more accurate.

Sponge Bob

watty wrote:

Except for Analogue TV3, where the coverage is worse than they say.

which is why they should pay for the FTV or freesat scheme that is required to complete their coverage .

Radio Mobile can import free elevation data accurate enough for VHF/UHF. It's at WiFi and up that the free data isn't good enough.[/quote[
where is that contour map ???

radio mobile itself ( once the transmitters/relays map with contourare in it) are can make the assumptions of coverage base on frequency and output in the UHF band

watty

It uses SRTM for elevations and then you can import mappoint overlay for roads etc.

I'd have to show you how on the program. Sometime I'm in Galway or you are in Limerick / Dundalk/ Belfast / Dublin.