The DTT Licence consultation

lucernarian

Here is the consultation on the proposed licence terms for DTT multiplexes:

http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0765.pdf

Some parts of it make for very interesting reading. I draw your attention to Appendix A in particular.

Is Dungarvan going to be a Main Transmitter? What happened to Kilduff becoming one?

Is there a relay proposed for Drogheda? (finally)

It looks like our NI overspill days are over. We can pick up TG4 from Mt Leinster crystal clear with properly aligned aerial, and on the aerial pointing towards kilkeel reception is fuzzy but watchable. The channels from kilkeel come in stronger, but not by much.

Mossy Monk

To_be_confirmed wrote:

Is Dungarvan going to be a Main Transmitter?

Sounds good to me .

SRB

Wouldn't the allocations for Kippure and Three Rock cause problems, given their coverage areas overlap in some areas ?

rlogue

Interesting how the vast majority of transposers fall outside both List A and List B...

So much for TV3's claptrap about pushing for the adoption of DTT in those service areas first, eh?

lucernarian

SRB, a Single Frequency Network would be in operation. An excellent way to maximise spectral efficiency and also slightly enhancing coverage in some areas in the east.

What is significant about List B?? And why is there a limited selection of relays, when the likes of Monaghan and Moville, substantial relays in their own right, have no allocations now?

Moville in particular already had allocations, if Irish-tv.com is to be believed. And the thread about TV3 on that relay shows there's an appetite for it and other channels. Moville is to the north coast as Kilkeel/Arfon is to the east coast.

watty

SRB wrote:

Wouldn't the allocations for Kippure and Three Rock cause problems, given their coverage areas overlap in some areas ?

No.

SRB

To_be_confirmed wrote:

SRB, a Single Frequency Network would be in operation.

Of course, wasn't sure if they were 100% set on going down that route, thought I'd read in some past Comreg publication they weren't, but yes it's in there now.

lucernarian

I've after reading the response to an equivalent document from 2001 which the ODTR published. Remarkably similar layout and theme to it. And large parts of it are effectively unchanged. No mention of a Drogheda relay then, and Kilduff was regarded as a main station.

If anyone has issues with the DTT proposals, now is the time to voice them to ComReg. In particular, to avoid problems like 10-year delay that some areas will have in the UK by the time they'll get freeview.

watty

Or another ten years before we get it at all.