Suddenly getting BBC digital on Saorview Aerial

mdfire

My saorview signal got very bad this past fews days and eventually went altogether. I am based in Cooley near Greenore, Co. Louth and have an outdoor aerial pointing at three rock (Claremont is blocked by mountains). Up until recently I was getting the Saorview ok.

The installer set up an aerial for Freeview which is pointing towards Kilkeel but isnt connected yet as he said it wasnt broadcasting until October.

I did a rescan on my Sony Bravia tonight and I picked up the Saorview channels again but Ive also got a lot of BBC channels both TV and Radio:D

Since starting to type this Ive lost Saorview but the BBC channels are still there. Am I likely to be getting interference from a testing transmitter in the North?

jabarrett35

It's probably due to the high pressure at the moment. I'm getting Freeview from Cornwall at present here in the south east and it's over 120 miles a way!

mdfire

Yeah, thats what the guy who installed it reckons. Have nothing now:mad:

Makes me wonder though about eventually ditching satellite when ulster switches over if im knocked out by a bit of high pressure

STB

mdfire wrote: »

Yeah, thats what the guy who installed it reckons. Have nothing now:mad:

Makes me wonder though about eventually ditching satellite when ulster switches over if im knocked out by a bit of high pressure

Saorview will probably be setting up a new TX at Greenore over the summer on Ch 47, so your Saorview signal will be more local and you wont have the issues that it has at present.

You obviously have that masthead amp set very high trying to pull in Three Rock, hence the spurious other channels booming in during lift conditions that we currently are experiencing, from IOM perhaps, perhaps further.

Peter Rhea

No point ditching satellite if you can only receive 'Freeview Lite' from a NI relay transmitter, regardless of interference issues.

Three Rock/Kippure will always be vulnerable to interference from Winter Hill (BBC North West & ITV Granada region).

mdfire

STB wrote: »

Saorview will probably be setting up a new TX at Greenore over the summer on Ch 47, so your Saorview signal wont have the issues that it has at present.

You obviously have that masthead amp set very high trying to pull in Three Rock, hence the spurious other channels booming in during lift conditions that we currently are experiencing, from IOM perhaps, perhaps further.

Thanks is that confirmed about the Greenore TX?

mdfire

Peter Rhea wrote: »

No point ditching satellite if you can only receive 'Freeview Lite' from a NI relay transmitter, regardless of interference issues.

Three Rock/Kippure will always be vulnerable to interference from Winter Hill (BBC North West & ITV Granada region).

I would be quite happy with BBC, UTV etc with kids channels.

Finne1993

mdfire wrote: »

Thanks is that confirmed about the Greenore TX?

Nope, afraid not, the Greenore relay is shutting down in October.

STB

Peter Rhea wrote: »

Three Rock/Kippure will always be vulnerable to interference from Winter Hill (BBC North West & ITV Granada region).

Yes the PSB3 Mux (the HD Mux) is on Channel 54 from Winter Hill alright. It could just wipe out Three Rock for the OP with high gain directional setup during lift and you wouldn't know unless you had a DVB-T2 tuner.

mdfire

Finne1993 wrote: »

mdfire wrote: »

Thanks is that confirmed about the Greenore TX?

Nope, afraid not, the Greenore relay is shutting down in October.

Just checked Saorview coverage map and it is giving the greenore tx for my address from October.

STB

Finne1993 wrote: »

Nope, afraid not, the Greenore relay is shutting down in October.

Analogue, yes. RTENL I gather are sticking a small Saorview TX in. A few afterthoughts coming in to play.

Finne1993

I was tearing my hair out half an hour ago as I was tuning in a TV for a customer here in the same area, I had set up the aerials earlier in the day but the TV wasn't there and I called back tonight to tune the TV in, the analogue from Kilkeel was pretty poor apart from BBC1 which was perfect.
The signal from Kippure was awful on both analogue and digital due to the high pressure, the TV pulled in 180 UK digital services!! The signals came from both Wales and the North West, I came home (beside Greenore) and checked my own and its exactly the same, getting near perfect digital signals on CH 51,58 and 61 hence wiping out Kippure, attenuating the signal made little or no difference. Just one of those things I guess!

Finne1993

STB wrote: »

Analogue, yes. RTENL I gather are sticking a small Saorview TX in. A few afterthoughts coming in to play.

Excellent news if thats correct, this must be a very recent development, as far as I was aware Greenore/Carlingford was going to be a Saorsat only area.

mdfire

Finne1993 wrote: »

I was tearing my hair out half an hour ago as I was tuning in a TV for a customer here in the same area, I had set up the aerials earlier in the day but the TV wasn't there and I called back tonight to tune the TV in, the analogue from Kilkeel was pretty poor apart from BBC1 which was perfect.
The signal from Kippure was awful on both analogue and digital due to the high pressure, the TV pulled in 180 UK digital services!! The signals came from both Wales and the North West, I came home (beside Greenore) and checked my own and its exactly the same, getting near perfect digital signals on CH 51,58 and 61 hence wiping out Kippure, attenuating the signal made little or no difference. Just one of those things I guess!

Im in Muchgrange. Getting nothing now and its like this for days. Fortunately still have sky in living room.

Peddyr

Cairn Hill on Ch47 coming in strong here in IOM. 3R / Kippure gone! Still happy as getting Saorview still even from a different Tx than usual!

martin12

jabarrett35 wrote: »

It's probably due to the high pressure at the moment. I'm getting Freeview from Cornwall at present here in the south east and it's over 120 miles a way!

@jabarrett35

How are the Saorview channels in Tramore hearing the reception has been affected with all this high pressure

Brian_Lo

I am in Drogheda and bought a new sony tv last August when i tuned in the tv I got the all BBC channels!!! But they all disappeared by next morning. I occasionaly retune tv just to set if I really did get them and last week I got them. But signal was poor and again gone by morning. Going what you've been saying here its more fluke and weather than Bbc coming available. But I think I'll wait till October after change over is complete before I decide on how to get uk channels.

Richard

mdfire wrote: »

My saorview signal got very bad this past fews days and eventually went altogether. I am based in Cooley near Greenore, Co. Louth and have an outdoor aerial pointing at three rock (Claremont is blocked by mountains). Up until recently I was getting the Saorview ok.

The installer set up an aerial for Freeview which is pointing towards Kilkeel but isnt connected yet as he said it wasnt broadcasting until October.

I did a rescan on my Sony Bravia tonight and I picked up the Saorview channels again but Ive also got a lot of BBC channels both TV and Radio:D

Since starting to type this Ive lost Saorview but the BBC channels are still there. Am I likely to be getting interference from a testing transmitter in the North?

What region was it? If it was NI/Scotland/Wales, you can tell from the channel name, if it was an English region, you can't.