Poor analogue signal from Cairns Hill

PogMoThoin

Anyone else experiencing this? For the last week I've been getting slight 2-3 seconds pauses on analogue, maybe a few times a day, but today the reception has completely degraded while digital is coming in perfect.

I've an outdoor aerial straight to tv (no amp or splitter etc) about 30 miles west, signal is usually perfect

cauliflower69

All good here not noticed any problems.

Galway

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Anyone else experiencing this? For the last week I've been getting slight 2-3 seconds pauses on analogue, maybe a few times a day, but today the reception has completely degraded while digital is coming in perfect.

I've an outdoor aerial straight to tv (no amp or splitter etc) about 30 miles west, signal is usually perfect

Analogue CH is suffering co channel inteference with Black Hill analogue (Scotland).

esquilax

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Anyone else experiencing this? For the last week I've been getting slight 2-3 seconds pauses on analogue, maybe a few times a day, but today the reception has completely degraded while digital is coming in perfect.

I've an outdoor aerial straight to tv (no amp or splitter etc) about 30 miles west, signal is usually perfect

I'm also receiving analogue (only) from Cairn Hill and I have certainly been experiencing issues where the screen goes black and there's no audio for a few seconds at a time. Is that what you mean by "pauses"? I think it happens on RTE1 and RTE2 but not TV3 or TG4.

I was actually going to write to RTENL about it because the problem I'm talking about has been going on - however intermittently - for months.

esquilax

Galway wrote: »

Analogue CH is suffering co channel inteference with Black Hill analogue (Scotland).

What I'm talking about is definitely not analogue co-channel interference. It goes from perfect analogue signal to a black screen with no audio and it usually happens several times in the space of a few minutes, each instance lasting a few seconds, when it happens.

Happens on all the TVs in our house so it's not the TV.

chasm

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Anyone else experiencing this? For the last week I've been getting slight 2-3 seconds pauses on analogue, maybe a few times a day, but today the reception has completely degraded while digital is coming in perfect.

I've an outdoor aerial straight to tv (no amp or splitter etc) about 30 miles west, signal is usually perfect

Yes i've been experiencing this too, has been going on for at least a month here, but has been more frequent this last week. It really got on my nerves today and i emailed RTE about it to find out how long this disruption is going to go on- received an acknowledgement of receipt, just waiting on a reply.

I thought it may have been my tv too, but the tv in the bedroom was doing it as well. Pardon my ignorance but this wouldnt actually damage a tv (plasma) would it? It just looks kinda weird on the plasma when it goes off compared to the old tv in the other room.

Kristopherus

esquilax wrote: »

What I'm talking about is definitely not analogue co-channel interference. It goes from perfect analogue signal to a black screen with no audio and it usually happens several times in the space of a few minutes, each instance lasting a few seconds, when it happens.

Happens on all the TVs in our house so it's not the TV.

Its the atmospheric conditions.

Tom Slick

Kristopherus wrote: »

Its the atmospheric conditions.

The atmosphere's been around long enough for them to have done something about it.

Kristopherus

Point taken:D. I'm in the West and all the terrestials have gone ape****e over the past couple of days. This always happens to analogue systems in high pressure atmospheres when earth is coolest. Usually happens on clear frosty nights.

Macy0161

Kippure UHF was poor last night for us, VHF and Digital were fine. I was putting it down to the weather conditions.

lucernarian

Most unfortunately I haven't got my mits on the aerial and TV at home in Co. Louth, on a hilltop and all. So while I'm sure there must be TV coming in from everywhere in Britain where I am, I have seen occasional green blockiness (not so much pixelation) and losses of picture for about half a second at a time in the last few weeks. This is on Cairn Hill analogue.

I do think that there is a separate issue going on at Cairn Hill, on top of the atmospheric conditions savaging long distance reception in UHF. Though it doesn't help that our best UHF signal comes from Cairn Hill, over 60 miles away!

esquilax

To_be_confirmed wrote: »

Most unfortunately I haven't got my mits on the aerial and TV at home in Co. Louth, on a hilltop and all. So while I'm sure there must be TV coming in from everywhere in Britain where I am, I have seen occasional green blockiness (not so much pixelation) and losses of picture for about half a second at a time in the last few weeks. This is on Cairn Hill analogue.

I do think that there is a separate issue going on at Cairn Hill, on top of the atmospheric conditions savaging long distance reception in UHF. Though it doesn't help that our best UHF signal comes from Cairn Hill, over 60 miles away!

Right. I've seen the blockiness at times too. This, and the fact that it doesn't happen on all stations broadcast from Cairn Hill definitively rules out degradation of the signal due to atmospheric conditions.

Does anyone know if RTENL have a number you're supposed to call to report these things?

Galway

esquilax wrote: »

Right. I've seen the blockiness at times too. This, and the fact that it doesn't happen on all stations broadcast from Cairn Hill definitively rules out degradation of the signal due to atmospheric conditions.

Does anyone know if RTENL have a number you're supposed to call to report these things?

The analogue at CH has not been right since the DTT started from there in Feb 09.

ponyirl

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I've an outdoor aerial straight to tv (no amp or splitter etc) about 30 miles west, signal is usually perfect[/QUOTE]


i.ve got the same set up living on the side of a hill a few miles from banagher, offaly! picture was crystal up till sunday now i've got lines all accross the screen.i install aerials for a lot of people locally and my phones been hopping since the weekend people wondering whats goin on??
still no answers!

p

givecredit

All will be back to normal by the end of weekend when our normal weather pattern returns.

Years ago i used to look forward to conditions like this. It was the only way i could watch the UK channels via aerial from NI and Scotland.

esquilax

ponyirl wrote: »

i.ve got the same set up living on the side of a hill a few miles from banagher, offaly! picture was crystal up till sunday now i've got lines all accross the screen.i install aerials for a lot of people locally and my phones been hopping since the weekend people wondering whats goin on??
still no answers!

p

I've obviously picked a bad time of year to bring this up because what I'm talking about is not lines across the screen but a perfect black screen (with horizontal and vertical sync and an audio carrier being broadcast) that only lasts a few seconds. But it often happens in bursts: several incidents of it in the space of ten minutes, say.

FWIW occasionally we used to be able to pick up HTV or Channel 5 due to high pressure (which was very exciting at the time). Or after half the aerial blew down, it just meant being able to pick up CH4 in colour again