Choosing an Aerial for saorview

BlueSpud

I am planning to put an arial in my attic for saorview, and I am a bit confused with a lot of the jargon involved. I have not yet bought the arial and would like some guidance before I buy. The ariel will have the roof (slates) in the way rather than the gable end wall. The following are the details from the
saorviw site:

SITEINFORMATION
Site:THREE ROCK
Site On-Air:Yes
Channels: 30, 33

AERIALINFORMATION
Polarization:H
Direction to point (degrees): West (279)
Distance: 8 km

1) I see talk of Grade A (no clue)
2) Group K UHF Aerial (what other groups are there, which should I choose)
3) dB gain (8..12), I am assuming the higher the better
4) UHF changes in the pipeline
5) Wideband UHF

Also, could anyone recommend a saorview box, nice & simple, my TV does not have a saorview decoder.

The Cush

BlueSpud wrote: »

1) I see talk of Grade A (no clue)
2) Group K UHF Aerial (what other groups are there, which should I choose)
3) dB gain (8..12), I am assuming the higher the better
4) UHF changes in the pipeline
5) Wideband UHF

Also, could anyone recommend a saorview box, nice & simple, my TV does not have a saorview decoder.

Go with a Group K, it'll cover the existing and future Three Rock frequencies.

The old widebands (Group W) covered UHF channels 21-69. Channels 61-69 are now used by 4G mobile. The existing wideband aerials (Group T, UHF 21-60) will be replaced in the coming years as channels 49-60 are sold off to the mobile operators for 4G/5G mobile services. Three Rock operates in the Group A band at the moment but under the replan it may have an allocation at UHF 48 so the future wideband Group K aerial will cover this. See this 2rn document for a breakdown of aerial groups.


The Walker Saorview PVR is probably the cheapest option now at €85 in Powercity (originally launched at €230). In the early years it did have recording problems but no reported issue here in recent times.

http://www.walker.ie/product/detailedView/75
http://www.powercity.ie/index.php?par=10-23&cat=Vision + Computing&action=brandstory

Sam Russell

Sounds like you could get reception on a wet string.

I have a log periodic aerial which id wide band and good at rejection bad signals. Because it is wide band, I did not need to change it when 3rock went from 54/58 to 30/33.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-periodic_antenna

This should work fine in the attic.

You can get one from: (no connection)

http://www.satworld.ie/mini-uhf-log-periodic-aerial-20-element.html

but other people sell them.

http://www.satellite.ie/acatalog/Attic-and-Outdoor-digital-tv-aerial.html

As for a Saorview box, if you have a sat dish then get a combo box.

Tony

I agree with Sam, if you have a satellite dish then a combo will give you both saorview and Uk freesat channels when you install your aerial.