Quesation About Signal

U_Fig

I'm Pretty new to the whole digital terrestial so need a few questions answered.. i bought a Panasonic TX-P42GT20L a few weeks ago and this has no problem picking up the Soarview channels with nearly full quality connection using a small 5" aerial beside my tv .. i live on the east coast.. i was wondering tho would it be possible to Recieve UK channels from where i live and if it was how big and high would the aerial have to be to pick them up

Gerry Wicklow

The East coast is well over 200Km long. If you can give us some idea of location, height above sea or if you can see the sea. It would help.
The easiest answer would be free-to-air (FTA) satellite which will give you all the main UK channels.

U_Fig

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

The East coast is well over 200Km long. If you can give us some idea of location, height above sea or if you can see the sea. It would help.
The easiest answer would be free-to-air (FTA) satellite which will give you all the main UK channels.

I live in Arklow about 10 mins walk from the sea....not too high..I can see the sea from my bedroom window..i have a sky+ box and dish with a quad LMB with a spare wire coming to the tv..what I wanna do is be able to use sky in one room and then have the terrestrial channels in another room as a free alternative to sky mulitroom

Gerry Wicklow

From what i can find that model might have a satellite tuner built in but there seems to be some confusion over which version is sold in Ireland. Is there a satellite screw in type connection on the back of the set?

A good group B aerial might do the whole job for you with an amp.
You'd get the uk freeview channels either from arfon[most likely] or preseli.

The arklow digital saorview transmitter should also come in from the back of that aerial as it is strong in the town,it's over there at the back of trinity hire near applegreen/carysfort school.

As Gerrywicklow says if your tv has a sat tuner,then just run a cable from the dishes quad lnb into that.

Sam Russell

If there is a F connector (with a screw thread) it has a Sat tuner, but I do not think the L versions have it, you need the B version.

You could get a freesat tuner and connect it to you Sky dish, and then you would have all the UK stations including the HD channels.

U_Fig

It doesn't have a Satlite tuner but I managed to get an old sky box from a friend do gonna use that to pick up the freeview channels just a matter of tuning it in to other channels..cheers I'm gonna get at it tomorrow n get it set up..

Gerry Wicklow

If it's an old sky box then just plug it in. Don't use any card. It will scan the channels automatically and give you the default (London) channels.

GrumPy

Sorry to hi-jack the thread guys, but I have an mpeg4 sony tv, and can hear the radio stations fine, but get a very pixelly/ stop and start picture & sound from the actually tv stations. My area is in a coverage zone. Is it a possibility for television is faulty?
The aerial installed on the house has worked fine for regular analog signals for years & continues to do so.


Thanks!

Peter Rhea

How many analogue channels? And tell us where you are.

GrumPy

Peter Rhea wrote: »

How many analogue channels? And tell us where you are.

All the usual analog channels, (BBCs, UTV, RTE, NET 2, C4 etc...) In Mornington, Meath.

Peter Rhea

Is there only one aerial installed on the house, does it point to the north?

Can you list the UHF channel nos. of the Irish analogue services?

The Cush

GrumPy wrote: »

The aerial installed on the house has worked fine for regular analog signals for years & continues to do so.

You probably require 2 aerials, 1 for Saorview and the other for the UK channels.

Vince Cable

Peter Rhea wrote: »

Is there only one aerial installed on the house, does it point to the north?

Probably a VP grid pointed at Clermont Carn/Kilkeel.

Do installers not realise that the beamwidth of these aerials is greatly reduced when vertically polarised?