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Aerial advise please.

  • 22-11-2009 9:31pm
    #1
    Westwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭


    Hello all.
    I just cancelled my sky subscription should have done it years ago and with the great knowledge on this board I tuned in all my free channels and as happy as a pig in shyte :).

    now the missus is missing the famous four, rte,tv3,tg2 :rolleyes:
    so im looking into getting an aerial installed in the attic or roof hoping to do myself maybe, reading up on it ill need a UHF TV & VHF/FM combo. I have two TVs in the house and one skybox in the attic with an amplifier running them with magic eyes, so can you good peoples of Ireland advise me on my best options here. btw I am in the carrigart area of Donegal. Which is northern and coastal. Thanks


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  • #2
    Darth Maul
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Darth Maul


    That would be for truskmore, but I think for your location a single UHF group A aerial, pointed at holywell hill would be better.


    Hollywell Hill

    Truskmore


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    I'd agree with Darth, looking to Truskmore from Carrigart you're likely to be blocked by the mountains in central Donegal plus Holywell Hill is much closer (32 v. 96 kms). Check if you have neighbours with UHF aerials pointing SE, if so then Holywell Hill is the man for you, group A with horizontal polarity pointing at 133 degrees (magnetic) will cover you for both analogue and digital.


  • #4
    Westwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Westwood


    Hey thanks lad’s ill check the neighbour’s houses tomorrow and see. I reckon it would be Hollywell Hill too as their are mountains behind our house (south west) our sky dish is facing south west but I know that would be different.

    heres a few group of A aerials I found online http://tiny.cc/46HGQ

    just wondering would the high gain would be best or is their any better then those? as I'd need a good reception or face a litany of abuse..

    Also if I was doing myself would they work in the attic maybe as the roof is very high and would be difficult to install up on the chimney so it would be unseen. sky dish is on the side of house and is pretty ugly. I noticed they have an attic or a chimney brackets u can order too.

    Also is it just a case of running some coax to the back of the skybox which is in the attic and the amplifier will feed the two tvs?

    Sorry for my lack of knowledge :(

    thanks


  • #5
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    That link to Holywell Hill in Darth's reply suggests that the signal reaches Milford but not Carrigart so you may be covered by a relay, check this document and look down the list of relay stations, there are a few places in Donegal (e.g. Beefan, Clonmany) that the rest of us wouldn't recognise, you may spot one that's close to you.....

    http://www.rtenl.ie/downloads/television-frequencies.pdf

    Either way, you need to check your neighbour's aerials but be aware that Carrigart aerials could be pointing at BBC Limavady (bearing 115 magnetic, horizontal polarity), BBC Derry (130 degrees, vertical polarity) or Holywell Hill (133 degrees, horizontal) so you're looking for aerials pointing SE with horizontal polarity.


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