getting full freeview service from ulster , south dublin

timetunnel

not sure what transmitter .
was checking why she had no signal on satelite .
got the satelite working .
notice she still at coax coming from aerial in back garden .
she also had a new sansung television .
so i thought i would give it a go .
so connected it into television .
did scan and the whole of ulster freeviw came in .
she lives on the road on the way up to barnicullia , sandyford , south dublin
just down from the well known pub , the blue light .
im just down the hill a little at the gallops , at he back of the race coarse.
im picking up freeview lite from wales .
might , if i get a chance get up on roof and see if can pick ulster up myself over the weekend .
i know she is elevated a little higher .
anybody else picking the full service up on this side of the city

Peter Rhea

Atmospheric conditions might favour it atm, if this is anything to go by: reception might only be temporary.

Pretty high up there though & obviously, if the aerial was already there & pointing north, there must be a history of useful reception at that location.

coylemj

OP, take a walk down Newtownpark Ave. from White's Cross and you'll see heaps of large aerials pointing north, there seems to be a good Freeview signal available from elevated parts of Blackrock, Monkstown and Dun Laoghaire. I believe they're picking up the signal from Kilkeel because the aerials are all aligned vertically. Most of them have no other aerial so they're either picking up Saorview from Clermont Carn in Co. Louth using that aerial (CC is also a vertical signal) or the signal from Three Rock is so strong that they're picking that up on the big aerial.

whitebriar

Peter Rhea wrote: »

Pretty high up there though & obviously, if the aerial was already there & pointing north, there must be a history of useful reception at that location.

Yes,there would be a history of good analogue there.As a plus the mountains probably block out mt Leinster too.
Helping matters would be obviously the aerials are outdoor and no doubt installed by an aerial guy way back when as a known reception area.

Peter Rhea

coylemj wrote: »

. . . I believe they're picking up the signal from Kilkeel because the aerials are all aligned vertically.

From a quick look at Streetview, it would appear that large vertically polarised aerials are the predominant type in the area of the Blue Light pub (the pub itself has one).

Spotted 1 house with a HP UHF aerial & what looks like a large band III aerial on top of the mast that probably should have been removed 30 years ago.

Well, that's enough nosiness for 1 evening . . .

coylemj

Peter Rhea wrote: »

Spotted 1 house with a HP UHF aerial & what looks like a large band III aerial on top of the mast that probably should have been removed 30 years ago.

You're correct, there's quite a few old VHF aerials (many with bits missing) on older rooftops in Blackrock and down in Dun Laoghaire, probably erected to pickup Kippure in the 1960s.

Example: http://goo.gl/maps/JwJ1u

Peter Rhea

The one in your example looks like a band II FM radio aerial. The one I was looking at seems to be band III & is facing north. If that's its original direction, it would have been for UTV from Black Mountain. Doesn't look like it was ever a combined band I/III aerial (the band I elements usually fall off long before the band III), so would have been paired with a separate band I aerial for BBC.

whitebriar

There are some videos on youtube pre rte relays of Dublin and the amount of vhf ironmongery on roof's for NI reception.

There are a few 1960's/1970's aerials on roofs around Arklow still.
My parents got their first telly receiving the welsh (or the foreign stations as my ma used call them) in the early 60's.