Do Rabbit Ears work with Saorview?

mackersdublin

Sorry if this has been answered already but...

Is it just the case of putting "Rabbit Ears" into the cable input on your MPEG4/5 TV and tuning in the digital stations?

If so, how can RTE Two be in HD?

Thanks

Sam Russell

The 'rabbit ears' you talk of are usually VHF. I prefer to use the term 'simple' aerial. The aerial for Saorview needs to be a UHF aerial, and, in strong signal areas, a very simple aerial will work. The weaker the signal strength, the better the aerial you will need.

The same aerial will work better at higher positions.

Edit: Sorry, the RTE 2 HD is just one of the channels and will be received by a Saorview TV or STB just as any channel, and has nothing to do with the aerial, only the receiver's capability. You need MPEG 4 HD and MHEG 5 to get the full service. The boxes that are SD only will not get RTE2HD.

watty

See http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60897584&postcount=4
and http://www.techtir.ie/radio-tv/uhf-aerials
and http://www.saortv.info/terrestrial-saorview/

Digital is just UHF.
The digital data is "coded" on a Radio transmission.
You can have any kind of Data.

HD depends on having HD encoding in RTE and a TV set or Setbox that understands the signals, recovers the digital data and then decodes the MPEG4 HD.

steveq

So it really depends on where you are in comparison to your nearest transmitter.

I have 2 indoor aerials, one like the "Indoor Aerials" section of Watty's link to www.techtir.ie and one "Rabbits Ears" aerial (a real cheapo from the Euro shop!).
Both work fine with Saorview and I can't tell the difference between the two when I switch them over and check the TV's signal strength or quality.

That said, I have almost line of sight to Three Rock. A bent coathanger would probably work too !!

The signal quality has had a few wobbles over the Christmas period (who didn't :P) but it seems fine since the New Year.

I would suggest that you give the "Rabbits Ears" a try - if it doesn't work you won't exactly have invested the kid's inheritance.

watty

Don't spend more than €2 on "Rabbits Ears" with a UHF hoop fitted.

Trevord

Indeed the 2 euro shop has a loop rabbits ears at the moment.

Probably available for £1 up the north in Poundland.

SPDUB

steveq wrote: »

That said, I have almost line of sight to Three Rock. A bent coathanger would probably work too !!

We used a bent fork in my workplace .

tv3tg4

How do you connect a rabbits ears to a f connector port?

Capt'n Midnight

On one poundshop aerial I took apart only the rabbits ears were connected to the cable. The loop wasn't.

Thurston?

tv3tg4 wrote: »

How do you connect a rabbits ears to a f connector port?

Why would you want to? Maybe for DAB?

Ten Pin

Needs an adaptor like this:
http://www.satworld.ie/coaxial-female-to-f-male-adapter-1.html

Most terrestrial inputs are coax, unless you're using a splitter with f connectors.