Where in Ireland can you receive freeview UK?

mcwhirter

Where in Ireland can you receive freeview UK?

Is it borders and east coast only?

I can pick up the analogue Uk channels, would i be able to receive DTT from the north too?

Sponge Bob

mcwhirter wrote: »

I can pick up the analogue Uk channels, would i be able to receive DTT from the north too?

Probably, Half of Connacht and Leinster can get them, most of Ulster and a fraction of east Munster.

mcwhirter

What about navan/slane area?

It's possible but at this juncture,it's at low power from Divis and Brougher,so it's a tall aerial job with many elements.
When power rises 20 fold in october 2012 upon analogue switch off,you have a better chance.
It all depends on whether you have some analogue now.
Also if you receive from an NI relay sation,they don't go digital untill late 2012.

Here in North wexford/south wicklow freeview from wales comes in perfectly as they are already on their higher power.Analogue switch off there happened last november.
I can't remember the last time there was a drop out,it's very reliable.

Sponge Bob

I would stick with analogue, use satellite for the UK channels in the interim, and revisit this Freeview issue when the power is increased in 2 years time after analogue switchoff here and up north.

watty

See
http://www.saortv.info/about/n-i-digital/

In time we will add coverage maps of NI Freeview in South and Saorview North and South.

emaherx

I live in Navan and have good uk analouge reception (snowy mostly unwatchable channel 5) all ot he others are crystal clear.

freeview comes and goes depending on the weather/ mostly unwatchable except during exceptional weather conditions.


I expect it will be more reliable after the power is turned up at the end of 2012

Sponge Bob

There are rumours the power may be up in time for the Olympics but that requires co ordination with RTE and completion of the Saorview network ( outside Munster) by mid 2012. All quite doable but I would not invest in potentially expensive and complex aerial work in Connacht Ulster and North Leinster until the process is complete on both sides of the border. That aerial work will be undertaken...if undertaken...to get extra UK channels in SD rather than their HD channels which shall be also on satellite in the main.

SE Leinster is nearly complete, as the Welsh cut over this year and RTE are fannying with Kippure and Mt Leinster.

Some Digital cutovers/power increases have been brought forward to 2012 from 2013, we shall learn more over the next year and it will be a perennial issue in this here forum

cartman51773

im also near navan and can pick up all the uk freeview in my epg but most of the time the signal is far too low. on occasions you can get bbc three but thats it. we will have to wait for aso and then hopefully get more

The Cush

Sponge Bob wrote: »

There are rumours the power may be up in time for the Olympics but that requires co ordination with RTE and completion of the Saorview network ( outside Munster) by mid 2012.

The Dept of Comms and Comreg have confirmed that ASO will not take place south of the border until Q4 2012. Can the power be increased north of the border before that?

Sam the Aerialman posted recently that Brougher will be ASO'd before the Olympics and the other two after. Will it be possible for them to go full power before we ASO in late 2012?

Sam the Aerialman wrote: »

Just to add Arqiva have confirmed that Divis will switchover in November 2012 not March 2013 as is commented in places. There will be a planned retune of frequencies at possibly Divis & Caldbeck to uprate the COM muxes at Caldbeck which are currently low powered.

Brougher will go in April in time for the Olympics and Limavady will go in September. There's to be some re-jig to switch Crystal Palace, Rowridge & Hannington in Q1 of 2012. Midhurst and Heathfield will then be switched over mid summer.

watty

Depends what uses the same channels as Brougher DTT, here.

Pangea

Interesting, I used to get the english channels here in S Donegal via analogue around 10 years ago, but ever since then it has ceased to exist, first ch4 went , then the bbcs.
However one room in the house still does get a very grainy bbc1 when it feels like it.

P.S Freeview is recieved by the same aerial antenna that gives you saorview right?
or does it feed from a satellite dish.

The Cush

Pangea wrote: »

P.S Freeview is recieved by the same aerial antenna that gives you saorview right?
or does it feed from a satellite dish.

Freeview is UK digital terrestrial television (DTT)
Saorview is Irish digital terrestrial television (DTT)

Both services require a separate aerial because they are not broadcast from the same transmitters (Freeview is only available from 3 main transmitters in NI until 2012, at that time all main & relay transmitters will switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting only - aka ASO or DSO).

The Irish analogue channels (RTÉ 1&2, TV3, TG4) and the UK analogue channels (BBC 1&2, UTV, CH4) also require separate aerials for the same reason. In some cases the Irish analogue channels require 2 aerials VHF & UHF.

Freesat is the UK's FTA satellite service which requires a freesat satellite receiver and dish.