What's up with Newstalk - transmitter down?

force eleven

Can't seem to get it this afternoon - anyone know whats happened?

Jip

Where are you ? I'm in west Dublin and it's been fine.

edit: Oops, I see you're in Moate, well it's fine in Dublin anyway.

mike65

Its gone for me as well (via Mt Leinster)

They've had a few outages in recent times - due to lightening strikes in one case!

edit - its back.

DMC

Very crackily interference on Sunday on 107.4 (Mohercrom transmitter, Bailieboro/Kingsourt)

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Jip wrote: »

Where are you ? I'm in west Dublin and it's been fine.

edit: Oops, I see you're in Moate, well it's fine in Dublin anyway.

Dublin (Three Rock) is still fed via microwave link from the old Dublin only days of Newstalk. All other transmitter sites around Ireland are fed via VSAT (satellite).

Dublin stays on when they lose satellite connectivity, but the rest of the country goes off.

DMC

Thats the thing....

Rome (the rest of the country) burns while Nero (Dublin) fiddles!

Does anyone know in Newstalk that a signal or transmitter is gone until a listener reports?

mike65

Tis still a Jackeen channel!

vince

4 fm went off in west cork at 15.20 then returned near 16.00 today then i checked newstalk from mulliganish 107.4 and that was off it must have been the satalite

Cole

I lost 4FM and Newstalk here in Galway sometime after 3pm for an hour or so.

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Newstalk and 4FM are carried on the same satellite system. So yes, it's related.

There is a central monitoring facility in Dublin. This is run by the contracted transmission company. They know the status of of all Newstalk, 4FM and Spin SW transmitters.

Fuzzy Clam

More Music wrote: »

Newstalk and 4FM are carried on the same satellite system. So yes, it's related.

There is a central monitoring facility in Dublin. This is run by the contracted transmission company. They know the status of of all Newstalk, 4FM and Spin SW transmitters.

More Music, are 4 and Newstalk uplinked together or do they have seperate uplinks from the studios?

Barname

every national station other than the ones aided by our license fees seem to have broadcast quality issues

i guess rte networks or whatever they are called know how to mess with radiophiles .....

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Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

More Music, are 4 and Newstalk uplinked together or do they have seperate uplinks from the studios?

4FM and Newstalk send their respective audio from their studios to a central uplink facility in Dublin.

The uplinking is not done at the studio locations.

maxwell smart

I've had terrible trouble picking up Newstalk all last week, in Wicklow between Aughrim and Baltinglass on Tuesday for Moncrieff and Thursday from Cahir to Cashel on the M8 (the bit where Vodafone have no coverage either) while listening to Eamonn Keane. Its been bad for 2 weeks now

Mayo Exile

Originally posted by DMC: Very crackily interference on Sunday on 107.4 (Mohercrom transmitter, Bailieboro/Kingsourt)

Very poor or no reception in Dundalk for months on this frequency. Can only pick it up on the car radio. Why didn't they use Clermont Carn to transmit from?

DMC

Unlike RTÉ, they appear to have no desire to beam into the North.

But transmitters can be nulled in certain directions, they can do it with DTT from Clermont Carn, but I suppose with the RTÉNL FM rig, its harder to do.