Lost channels? Look here for transmitter/reception issues

Johnboy1951

eirman wrote: »

Thanks for that info. I'll wait and only replace if necessary.

If you tune in the new frequencies now you can find out.

The old frequencies are being switched off March 3rd, but the new ones are in use since Sept last.

A lot of users are already using them ...... so do try and if your aerial works there is no more you need do.

NorthDown2

I’m staying in Limavady at Roe Park Resort. Tv Has the mux with RTE2, virgin, TG4 etc. Getting the dots on the channel names and the rexczn message. No RTE1. Remote doesn’t allow me to see which frequency it’s on or rescan. Which tx am I likely receiving? Holywell Hill? Moville? Which of these requires a retune? Any advice so I can tell hotel before the frequency is switched off appreciated.

Bet tv is a Samsung if anyone has a secret to st of getting the scan menu to reappear!!!

Johnboy1951

You seem to be saying your are a guest on the premises ... so ...

Tell the manager to get whoever is responsible for their TV distribution to attend to it, else they will lose all Saorview channels.

Wegian

Hi all

Based in south Galway, have lost Saorview channels on both Panasonic Viera TV and also Amiko Mini combo box over the past few months

I have tried the retuning but both auto tune scans are not picking up any channels

Any ideas?

Winston Spencer

Your aerial is goosed.

Wegian

Winston Spencer wrote: »

Your aerial is goosed.

Thanks for the reply. I can get Saorview on a different TV (an LG) off the same aerial

The Cush

Wegian wrote: »

I can get Saorview on a different TV (an LG) off the same aerial

How is the aerial feed split to the various TV points? Splitter or distribution amp?

Check all connections between the TV points and aerial as a first step.

elsie1b

I have been receiving saorview from Forth Mountain on channels 52 and 56 with a wideband grid aerial in my loft.
I've noticed channels 33 and 36 are active but for me the signal quality is zero or negligible.
When will or are the new frequencies be turned on,and might I need a change of aerial ?

The Cush

elsie1b wrote: »

When will or are the new frequencies be turned on,and might I need a change of aerial ?

The new frequencies have been there since Sept 4th last. Manually tuning in the frequencies separately has worked for some, otherwise a new aerial will be required.

Elvis Hammond

elsie1b wrote: »

I have been receiving saorview from Forth Mountain on channels 52 and 56 with a wideband grid aerial in my loft.
I've noticed channels 33 and 36 are active but for me the signal quality is zero or negligible.
When will or are the new frequencies be turned on,and might I need a change of aerial ?

Maybe try placing the aerial in different spots in the loft. (And I assume it's set for vertical pol.?)

Ocelot88

Hello, so the parents saorview has stopped working, lost a few channels earlier in week and all today, tried retuning but found nothing. it was comming in the house by an aerial on roof, does this have to be replaced and if so with what?

The Cush

Ocelot88 wrote: »

so the parents saorview has stopped working, lost a few channels earlier in week and all today, tried retuning but found nothing. it was comming in the house by an aerial on roof, does this have to be replaced and if so with what?

The old frequencies were switched off on the 4th, so if you had the channels since then with the new frequencies the issue is likely something with your current installation. Could be an issue with the aerial, cable or connections.

Firstly check cable and connections between TV points and aerial if possible for security, damage etc.

bootser

Hi all, bit of a strange one, since the changeover my saorview approved kitchen tv is fine but my main tv gets rte1 not rte2 or virgin but my bedroom tv is the opposite! Rang saorview and got told to contact an approved installer. So question is, is it my TVs or aerial that's the problem?!
TIA

The Cush

bootser wrote: »

So question is, is it my TVs or aerial that's the problem?!
TIA

Could be the distribution setup within the house and the quality of signal reaching the TV points, how is the signal split and distributed around the house? Where is the aerial located?

Ocelot88

The Cush wrote: »

The old frequencies were switched off on the 4th, so if you had the channels since then with the new frequencies the issue is likely something with your current installation. Could be an issue with the aerial, cable or connections.

Firstly check cable and connections between TV points and aerial if possible for security, damage etc.

They had saor view up until yesterday before i tried to do a rescan, when i did rte1 and virgin media 3 had dissapeared

The Cush

Ocelot88 wrote: »

They had saor view up until yesterday before i tried to do a rescan, when i did rte1 and virgin media 3 had dissapeared

Basically it's a signal issue, the frequency/mux those channels are carried on is not good enough for the tuner to lock onto while the other frequency's signal is good enough. Signal strength/quality can be affected by the issues I mentioned previously.

Harry Palmr

I've lost RTE1 and VM3 as well east Waterford.

Did a rescan and they are back (my radio channels are also back in the right order, a previous scan had them in an odd sequence)

kazoo106

Appears to be a national outage on the MUX which provides RTE One and VM3 - RTE One still OK on the NIMM from Brougher and Black Mountain

The Cush

kazoo106 wrote: »

Appears to be a national outage on the MUX which provides RTE One and VM3 - RTE One still OK on the NIMM from Brougher and Black Mountain

OK here from Mullaghanish.

kazoo106

Clermont Carn out and possibly Corn Hill also - cant verify any others at this time

EDIT - just back on air in last few minutes

flashinthepan

Folks are there problems with RTE1
Was working ok up until the other day
Now I get 100% on RTE2 but signal varying wildly on RTE1 every couple of seconds it goes from 20% to 100 and back

Were in Wicklow town & used to get our picture from the Greystones transmitter but after a rescan I can no longer seem to get any signal from there
And instead are only picking up RTE 1 on channel 25 which appears to be the transmitter up near the M11 at the back of the rugby club

Is this a glitch or do I need to get up on the roof and point the Aerial somewhere else

Thanks for any replies
J

sligojoek

flashinthepan wrote: »

Folks are there problems with RTE1
Was working ok up until the other day
Now I get 100% on RTE2 but signal varying wildly on RTE1 every couple of seconds it goes from 20% to 100 and back

Were in Wicklow town & used to get our picture from the Greystones transmitter but after a rescan I can no longer seem to get any signal from there
And instead are only picking up RTE 1 on channel 25 which appears to be the transmitter up near the M11 at the back of the rugby club

Is this a glitch or do I need to get up on the roof and point the Aerial somewhere else

Thanks for any replies
J

Not sure if you've tried already. Put your details in here to get the optimum transmitter and freqs to tune to.

https://www.saorview.ie/en/get/coverage

Elvis Hammond

flashinthepan wrote: »

Folks are there problems with RTE1
Was working ok up until the other day
Now I get 100% on RTE2 but signal varying wildly on RTE1 every couple of seconds it goes from 20% to 100 and back

Were in Wicklow town & used to get our picture from the Greystones transmitter but after a rescan I can no longer seem to get any signal from there
And instead are only picking up RTE 1 on channel 25 which appears to be the transmitter up near the M11 at the back of the rugby club

Is this a glitch or do I need to get up on the roof and point the Aerial somewhere else

Delete whatever Saorview you have, & try a manual scan of chs. 42 (642 MHz) & 45 (666 MHz).

flashinthepan

sligojoek wrote: »

Not sure if you've tried already. Put your details in here to get the optimum transmitter and freqs to tune to.

https://www.saorview.ie/en/get/coverage

thanks for the reply

Yeah if I try that is shows the new transmitter up near the m11 which is 3km
And was not there when the Aerial went up

Which means I would have to get up on the roof and possibly move the Aerial round to the other side of the Chimney as the chimney is between the aerial and the transmitter
Bummer

flashinthepan

Elvis Hammond wrote: »

Delete whatever Saorview you have, & try a manual scan of chs. 42 (642 MHz) & 45 (666 MHz).

Thanks for the reply
Did that last night deleted saorview channels and scanned the Wicklow / Greystones channels 42 - 45
Found no Channels even though this was working up til about Monday

Don't understand though how I can be getting 100% solid on Rte2 and intermittent 20 to 100% on RTE 1 channel 22 - 25 picture breakup when I am close enough to throw a rock at it

I just get the feeling there is something not working right and I could get up and move the Aerial round to the other side of the chimney and still only get intermittent signal on RTE 1

Sysmod

flashinthepan wrote: »

Folks are there problems with RTE1
Was working ok up until the other day
Now I get 100% on RTE2 but signal varying wildly on RTE1 every couple of seconds it goes from 20% to 100 and back
J

We're on Tara Hill Gorey, on aerials to BBC in Wales and RTE in Forth Mountain. We're in the shadow of the hill from Mt.Leinster.
Yes, we're losing RTE1 a lot. I thought it was weather related as we sometimes get drop outs of BBC Wales too.
Sometimes RTE1 is No Signal but RTE Now works - is that because New Now is SD and less influenced by weak reception than RTE1 HD?

No installer is going to call to us during this emergency so we're stuck with what we have. Currently I get RTE1 on their web site on my phone and Miracast it to our non-smart telly for which we have a Miracast HDMI dongle.
We have an old Sky dish out of subscription but Sky only offers UK channels for free, not RTE.
No point in online ordering an extra booster I suppose, it can't amplify what isn't there.

Hotblack Desiato

There's a relay in Gorey, why aren't you using that?

Sysmod

Thanks for the info. Do you know when it was installed and where it is exactly? I can check with my installer about redirecting it there although that may not now happen until all this lockdown is over. Is there any online map that shows its coverage? We might just scrape a line of sight along the southeast of the hill to Gorey town.

Oscarziggy

For what it's worth I have similar problems with Mt Leinster here in West Wales .
The signal on RTE 1 can go from "high" on my Sony TV to nothing in the blink of an eye .
It's been bad the last few days with the high pressure over the UK -- was even getting RTE DAB on a portable radio in the garden yesterday.
Before starting to type this I was receiving all signals from Mt Leinster at "high" signal -- I've just checked again and nothing being received.
I have an aerial at 90 degrees to the Mt Leinster aerial pointing at Presli using a combiner into the TV .
Fairly recently the Carmel transmitter near Swansea changed to CH23 and CH26 - the same as Mt Leinster (bad idea) and I thought I was getting that transmitter off the back of the Mt Leinster aerial -- I now have my doubts.

I'm sure it's high pressure related -- I've just checked again and RTE2 is rock steady at high signal whereas RTE1 is bouncing between high and good .
I really don't know the answer.

Sysmod

Oscarziggy wrote: »

I'm sure it's high pressure related -- I've just checked again and RTE2 is rock steady at high signal whereas RTE1 is bouncing between high and good .
I really don't know the answer.

How does that happen? Aren't both stations coming from the same transmitter? Wouldn't they both be transmitted at the same level? I'm curious about the physics here.