aerials and boxes

jamescc

hi guys
am confused i got a walker digital box paid 100.i throught that i would get uk stations as well will i get them?. i went out and paid another 25 for an outdoor antenna (18 element digital tv aeral from maxview)no markings to say for digital tv. my question if i change the aeral and higher it up will i get more stations and how do you know where to point it(at what mast) i would be in walkinstown dublin 12.
am just fed up with large monthly bills also someone told me that i would need a booster attached to the aerial it's self as well as a booster inside

watty

It depends where you are.

STB

Most of the postings here of UK Freeview are by enthuasiasts with 60ft aerials or people living on the coast of Wicklow to Wexford from Wales (it is not the first time that this has caused confusion - I have said this several times).

People along the border will also receive Freeview from N Ireland.

You will not receive Freeview in Walkinstown. Infact short of having your own land on the edge of the coast with a LARGE aerial it WONT work.

If that was your wish to receive UK and Irish TV in one box you need a combo box. http://www.saortv.com/shop/Digital-TV-Receivers/Combo/Edision-Argus-mini-2-in-1-IP-Combo-HD-Satellite/DTT-Receiver/prod_72.html

Bring the other box back and get your money back. You will need a sat dish as well. They are €50 in power city.

Keep the aerial and connect them all up.

The Cush

jamescc wrote: »

(18 element digital tv aeral from maxview)no markings to say for digital tv.

There is no such thing as a digital aerial - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055807909

STB wrote: »

If that was your wish to receive UK and Irish TV in one box you need a combo box. http://www.saortv.com/shop/Digital-TV-Receivers/Combo/Edision-Argus-mini-2-in-1-IP-Combo-HD-Satellite/DTT-Receiver/prod_72.html

Bring the other box back and get your money back. You will need a sat dish as well. They are €50 in power city.

Keep the aerial and connect them all up.

Alternatively keep the Walker box and use it on your main TV or another TV in the house. Might even work with a set top aerial for DTT from Three Rock.

Buy a freesat or free-to-air receiver and dish for the UK channels. These lads are over in Tallaght http://satellite.ie/

jamescc

STB wrote: »

Most of the postings here of UK Freeview are by enthuasiasts with 60ft aerials or people living on the coast of Wicklow to Wexford from Wales (it is not the first time that this has caused confusion - I have said this several times).

People along the border will also receive Freeview from N Ireland.

You will not receive Freeview in Walkinstown. Infact short of having your own land on the edge of the coast with a LARGE aerial it WONT work.

If that was your wish to receive UK and Irish TV in one box you need a combo box. http://www.saortv.com/shop/Digital-TV-Receivers/Combo/Edision-Argus-mini-2-in-1-IP-Combo-HD-Satellite/DTT-Receiver/prod_72.html

Bring the other box back and get your money back. You will need a sat dish as well. They are €50 in power city.

Keep the aerial and connect them all up.

no i meant by the aerial alone through the tv but if it does not work then no trouble:D

jamescc

The Cush wrote: »

There is no such thing as a digital aerial - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055807909



Alternatively keep the Walker box and use it on your main TV or another TV in the house. Might even work with a set top aerial for DTT from Three Rock.

Buy a freesat or free-to-air receiver and dish for the UK channels. These lads are over in Tallaght http://satellite.ie/

it's what was wrote on the box!

jamescc

STB wrote: »

Most of the postings here of UK Freeview are by enthuasiasts with 60ft aerials or people living on the coast of Wicklow to Wexford from Wales (it is not the first time that this has caused confusion - I have said this several times).

People along the border will also receive Freeview from N Ireland.

You will not receive Freeview in Walkinstown. Infact short of having your own land on the edge of the coast with a LARGE aerial it WONT work.

If that was your wish to receive UK and Irish TV in one box you need a combo box. http://www.saortv.com/shop/Digital-TV-Receivers/Combo/Edision-Argus-mini-2-in-1-IP-Combo-HD-Satellite/DTT-Receiver/prod_72.html

Bring the other box back and get your money back. You will need a sat dish as well. They are €50 in power city.

Keep the aerial and connect them all up.

maybe you should read my comment again

how do you know where to point it (the aerial) (at what mast) i would be in walkinstown dublin 12.

STB

Are you looking for help or do you know the answers already.

I fully understand your post. Its clear you dont understand my post so I will explain it to you.
Freeview exists in the UK (thats the British stations you were asking about).

YOU WILL NOT get FREEVIEW in Walkinstown with any box

You will receive RTE1, 2 Tg4 and RTE News Now on it (TV3 will be added later) from Three Rock mountain. That is all you will receive with that 100 euro box. There are Digital TV services in every country, they broadcast WITHIN their own country.

For another 60 euro you could have got the box in my first post which offers the UK stations VIA satellite and the Irish Digital stations in one channel list (it mixes terrestrial and satellite).

Understand ?

Tom Slick

Three Rock is to South East

lucernarian

To answer the question for D12, you can point a vertically polarised aerial to the east-southeast of you (out towards Dun Laoghaire) which is the "most likely" one to be received from Wales. Also pointing east of north with a horizontally polarised aerial would point towards where you'd get it from in Northern Ireland currently.

Neither of the above situations have even a hope of working without 60ft masts and other substantial pieces of equipment, going from what I see in Kildare. And in the case of TV from the North, you'd only manage some sort of analogue reception after all that trouble as the only reports of freeview from there are in the Dublin Mountains

The Cush

If you live close to the border or in the south-east of the country you may get freeview with an aerial but for the rest of us around the country a satellite dish and satellite receiver (freesat or free-to-air) is required to receive the UK channels free. The satellite version of freeview is called freesat.

lgs 4

jamescc wrote: »

hi guys
am confused i got a walker digital box paid 100.i throught that i would get uk stations as well will i get them?. i went out and paid another 25 for an outdoor antenna (18 element digital tv aeral from maxview)no markings to say for digital tv. my question if i change the aeral and higher it up will i get more stations and how do you know where to point it(at what mast) i would be in walkinstown dublin 12.
am just fed up with large monthly bills also someone told me that i would need a booster attached to the aerial it's self as well as a booster inside

if your willing to wait 12 months you may get freeview from northern ireland when all of the new dtt network are ready and at full power at the moment freeview will carry to midlands in good weather or move to wicklow :rolleyes:

Digifriendly

lgs 4 wrote: »

if your willing to wait 12 months you may get freeview from northern ireland when all of the new dtt network are ready and at full power at the moment freeview will carry to midlands in good weather or move to wicklow :rolleyes:

You mean 2012? DSO will not take place in NI until at least spring 2012.

The Cush

lgs 4 wrote: »

if your willing to wait 12 months you may get freeview from northern ireland when all of the new dtt network are ready and at full power at the moment freeview will carry to midlands in good weather or move to wicklow :rolleyes:

N Ireland not full power until mid to late 2012.

STB

lgs 4 wrote: »

if your willing to wait 12 months you may get freeview from northern ireland when all of the new dtt network are ready and at full power at the moment freeview will carry to midlands in good weather or move to wicklow :rolleyes:

He will not get Freeview from NI in a built up area like Walkinstown regardless of how many months its away. Overspill into the border counties. Dublin No.

lgs 4

STB wrote: »

He will not get Freeview from NI in a built up area like Walkinstown regardless of how many months its away. Overspill into the border counties. Dublin No.

well i did say move to wicklow, you may be right, but walkinstown has good analogue reception ,well it had . i live in tallaght and our aerial was 70 foot high but houses at the back of us there,s was 20 foot high, my motto is, if your not in you can,t win

championc

You can check if you have any hope of getting Northern Ireland Freeview after Jan 2013 by standing on the roof of your house. If you can see Dublin Airport Terminal (T2 should be somewhat distinctively identifiable), then there's half a chance.

Just get an old Sky box and a dish and you'll get 90% of what you'd get on an Aerial. I'm sure there are plenty of other houses around you with dishes on them to be able to see the direction it needs to be able to point towards. A simple "rabbits ears" should get you RTE etc. from Three Rock


C

904473

Does anybody know if the DVB boxes in Spain would be compatible with the new mpeg4 system over here?

STB

lgs 4 wrote: »

well i did say move to wicklow, you may be right, but walkinstown has good analogue reception ,well it had . i live in tallaght and our aerial was 70 foot high but houses at the back of us there,s was 20 foot high, my motto is, if your not in you can,t win

Parts of Tallaght are up the mountains!

70ft - how did you get planning permission for that!

Walkinstown is a built up area. You will not get away with a 70ft aerial there. Thats a mast.

Either way wouldnt a satelllite dish be easier and cheaper and safer.

904473 wrote: »

Does anybody know if the DVB boxes in Spain would be compatible with the new mpeg4 system over here?

They use MPEG2 and MPEG4. They are only testing MPEG4. Make sure it says MPEG4 H264 on the box and only buy one if they are cheap ie less than €50. They use MHP middleware, we will be using MHEG5- different

lgs 4

STB wrote: »

Parts of Tallaght are up the mountains!

70ft - how did you get planning permission for that!

Walkinstown is a built up area. You will not get away with a 70ft aerial there. Thats a mast.

Either way wouldnt a satelllite dish be easier and cheaper and safer.

that was total high with aerial and house we couldnt understand that houes behide us only need 20 pole + the house we had RTE tec department out with us, they said its was black spot :eek:

904473

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They use MPEG2 and MPEG4. They are only testing MPEG4. Make sure it says MPEG4 H264 on the box and only buy one if they are cheap ie less than €50. They use MHP middleware, we will be using MHEG5- different[/QUOTE]


Many thanks. Thats good advice.