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DTT Availability at Achill Island ?

  • 28-04-2010 4:47pm
    #1
    CircusIntro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭


    Hi

    Anybody know if the RTENL test is covering Achill Island ?

    Cheers


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  • #2
    stellarartois
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭stellarartois


    If you go up to the booster site on achil the door for the transmission equipment isn't locked!!


  • #3
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    stellarartois wrote: »
    If you go up to the booster site on achil the door for the transmission equipment isn't locked!!
    Lol.

    I thought there was extra security on those places dating back to the Provo threat to communications installations in the State.

    It wouldn't take much effort to switch the feed for the transmitter if you got your hands on the equipment!:eek: That would also be a blatantly criminal offense (not sure which law though) so let no one get any bright ideas!


  • #4
    stellarartois
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭stellarartois


    There are two sky boxes in there not that i was in there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    you could easily change the channels!


  • #5
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    The Sky boxes are only fallover gear, so it wouldn't actually change what was being radiated unless the main feed went down.

    Achill's TX is on the list to be converted to digital but the order on the list went out the window - some relays which were meant to be done after it are already done and many before it aren't.


  • #6
    stellarartois
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭stellarartois


    don't think there was any other recieving equipment there.


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  • #7
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    It'd have been on the mast itself. Microwave feed most likely, it could be a receive/broadcast relay either but I dunno if RTE use these.

    No site is full-time fed solely off Sky Digital; also Achill broadcasts three channels not two under normal circumstances and has been around for a lot longer than Sky Digital has!


  • #8
    stellarartois
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭stellarartois


    You're probably right acctually there was some sort of motorola box in there that looked expensive!


  • #9
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Do find it very lax of them to leave it open - the Arranmore site is like Fort Knox.

    That said, the Arranmore site got vandalised to feck when being built, so that might be why!


  • #10
    stellarartois
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭stellarartois


    I was surprised myself! the only thing is that the steel door is so rusty it's quite hard to open so its not obvious at first that its not locked!!


  • #11
    Lemsiper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Lemsiper


    So you were IBTL?


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  • #12
    dowtchaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭dowtchaboy


    Lemsiper wrote: »
    So you were IBTL?

    :):)


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