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Castlebar DTT

  • 01-06-2012 5:32pm
    #1
    Randyleprechaun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Anyone experience difficulties today with digital signal from Castlebar.

    couple of people near me had problems and then my mam rang saying theirs was funny too.

    Anyone able to shed any light on it, seemed to sort itself out around 6

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    Thread dealing with supposed problem at Truskmore (does C'bar relay from there?): http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056657579


  • #3
    Randyleprechaun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Randyleprechaun


    Peter Rhea wrote: »
    Thread dealing with supposed problem at Truskmore (does C'bar relay from there?): http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056657579

    I thought Castlebar was a main transmitter, perhaps not!!!

    Anyway, thanks for the, link, I'll have a look.

    Anyone else any ideas our comments


  • #4
    John mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,159 ✭✭✭John mac


    i had it on from 6 to 7 and was fine.

    (not dtt but.. they must be doing something up there as today fm has been dropping out all week)


  • #5
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    Ive noticed the radio stations too, going very weak at times.


  • #6
    cast_iron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭cast_iron


    I noticed the radio stations from Truskmore intermittently going blank for 5-10 mins all week.

    At one stage, a strong signal from a foreign station would give extremely clear sound (chat at the time) with Today FM no longer to be heard at all. RDS came through and all.
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  • #7
    lawhec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭lawhec


    That RDS indicates that it's Swedish Radio's 3rd Channel/Program 3. The only transmitter broadcasting P3 on 100.0 is at Skellefteå in the north east of the Sweden, with an ERP of 60kW. Reception was almost certain to be Sporadic-E, quite common at this time of year.

    As for DTT from Castlebar, it's co-channel with BBC1 analogue from Brougher Mountain, it's possible tropospheric enhancement from recent weather we've had could affect it.


  • #8
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Randyleprechaun wrote: »
    I thought Castlebar was a main transmitter, perhaps not!!!

    It is in theory still a relay site although its power output on UHF analouge is as high as some main TX sites and (given the number of microwave dishes at the site) I daresay it wouldnt take much to upgrade it like they did with Spur Hill dowen in Cork.


  • #9
    Mr Cumulonimbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Mr Cumulonimbus


    Couple of momentary breaks in transmission in DTT from C'bar at around 4.40pm then there was roughly a 30 second break. Managed to check a second TV in the house (on a separate aerial to the first TV) before it came back and there was no signal on it either.

    Signal is normally 100% (strength and quality) with line of sight to the C'bar mast.


  • #10
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    castlebar stuttering again tonight. Its not as bad now as it was at the start of the football.


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