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Getting freeview / terrestrial TV

  • 02-04-2017 1:07pm
    #1
    machat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭


    Hi there,

    I would like to be able to receive freeview at home. Mostly so I can watch itv, and follow BTCC :)

    In my apartment, I used to have UPC. It was there before I moved in, and I kept it for a while.
    Then I moved over to Sky, and all the UPC stuff we left behind.

    As such the only TV connections I have, are the Sky satellite connection, and what UPC left, which is a single cable sticking out of the wall marked "CABELCON 4.9" and two small "Tratec" (splitter?) boxes

    My TV is fully equipped to receive both Soarview and freeview but it does not pickup any channels, so I do not think there is any life in the basic cable ?
    Is there something I need ?

    Sorry if it is daft, but I have no idea what I am doing :D


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  • #2
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Saorview requires an aerial pointing at a Saorview transmitter and connected to the TV. Freeview is similar but with an aerial pointing at a Freeview transmitter in NI or Wales. Neither are carried on cable.

    In the Dublin area a number of analogue channels are carried on their cable system if the cable is still connected to the network, TV analogue scan required.

    Freesat or FTA satellite might be an option via the Sky dish connections but none of the Irish channels are available this way.


  • #3
    machat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭machat


    Thank you. That seems to be "the anwser"
    As I live in an apartment, putting an aerial on the roof is not an option, and my windows are all facing the west...

    Guess I'll have to stick to what is on Sky... :(


  • #4
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    machat wrote: »
    Guess I'll have to stick to what is on Sky...

    Can't the ITVs be tuned in under 'other channels' on the Sky box?

    I wouldn't be bothering with Freeview anyway, although your TV might have a built in satellite tuner if you wanted to tune in the free UK channels independent of the Sky box. (Would need another cable run from the dish.)


  • #5
    machat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭machat


    Thurston? wrote: »
    Can't the ITVs be tuned in under 'other channels' on the Sky box?

    No, not quite. When I try that, the Sky box says "no satellite signal" Which is funny, as all my Sky channels work...


  • #6
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    machat wrote: »
    ... When I try that, the Sky box says "no satellite signal"

    What settings do you use? (Frequency, polarity, symbol rate, modulation type.)


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  • #7
    machat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭machat


    Thurston? wrote: »
    What settings do you use? (Frequency, polarity, symbol rate, modulation type.)

    Well, I used the defaults, which are:
    Frequency: 11.778
    Polarisation: V
    Symbol rate: 27.5 Mbaud
    FEC: 2/3
    Standard: DVB-S
    Modulation scheme: QPSK


  • #8
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    You need to enter the settings for the transponder your wanted channels are carried on e.g. ITV London HD is 11.097 GHz, V pol., SR 23000, FEC 3/4, DVB-S2, 8PSK.

    Find more here.


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