Saorview Q

Sundance_Kid

Hi folks, the family for the last few years in the holiday home have from what I can remember (i havent been down in a couple of years) a tv with a dual saorview and satellite tuner built in. This provided the usual foreign/uk channels and I think we had a separate tv aerial which helped provided the irish channels. This aerial would have been shared between a few of the holiday homes.

I havent been down but apparently the channels have all disappeared at some stage in the last few months.

My question is, do we need to have some sort of outside aerial connected to the tv to provide the Irish channels? And a separate aerial/satellite for the foreign/uk channels? Or should the inbuilt tuner not negate the need for an aerial/satellite for the foreign channels?

Thanks for any advice, i know my understanding of what exactly we have is not very clear.

Thanks

Atlantic Dawn

You might get away with a cheap €10 or so internal aerial for the Irish channels depending on how far you are from the nearest transmitter, perhaps ask what your neighbours are using. An external aerial will give clearest most solid reception but you might get away without one. UK channels can be picked up near border regions by aerial, if you are not near the border a satellite dish for Freesat channels would be best solution.

Sundance_Kid

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

You might get away with a cheap €10 or so internal aerial for the Irish channels depending on how far you are from the nearest transmitter, perhaps ask what your neighbours are using. An external aerial will give clearest most solid reception but you might get away without one. UK channels can be picked up near border regions by aerial, if you are not near the border a satellite dish for Freesat channels would be best solution.

Thanks, so can you tell me what the purpose of the inbuilt saorview nd satellite tuner in the tv is for? I presumed (incorrectly Im guessing) that you didnt need the satellite or aerial to pick up the channels if you had the inbuilt tuner.
It could well be that we were connected to a satellite and aerial in conjunction with the neighbours, but will need to check on what the set-up was previoualy.

Regarding the satellite dish for freesat channels does there need to b a cable going from the satellite to the tv or is that where there is no need for the cable and the inbuilt tuner should be able to pick it up from the satellite.

Atlantic Dawn

Sundance_Kid wrote: »

Thanks, so can you tell me what the purpose of the inbuilt saorview nd satellite tuner in the tv is for? I presumed (incorrectly Im guessing) that you didnt need the satellite or aerial to pick up the channels if you had the inbuilt tuner.
It could well be that we were connected to a satellite and aerial in conjunction with the neighbours, but will need to check on what the set-up was previoualy.

Regarding the satellite dish for freesat channels does there need to b a cable going from the satellite to the tv or is that where there is no need for the cable and the inbuilt tuner should be able to pick it up from the satellite.

The tuner requires an aerial to be able to pick up the channels, you might in theory be able to pick them up putting a coat hanger in to the back of the TV (not recommended if you damage connections).


For satellite the cable will need to run to the TV so the tuner can display it.

The Cush

Sundance_Kid wrote: »

Hi folks, the family for the last few years in the holiday home have from what I can remember (i havent been down in a couple of years) a tv with a dual saorview and satellite tuner built in. This provided the usual foreign/uk channels and I think we had a separate tv aerial which helped provided the irish channels. This aerial would have been shared between a few of the holiday homes.

Where approx. is the holiday home?

If the Irish channels came in via a shared aerial did you have your own dish for the UK channels or was this via the same cable or another cable from a shared satellite dish?

Is someone responsible for maintaining the shared system, check with them first.

Use this checker to find the recommended transmitter for the holiday home location, it will determine which aerial you will require - https://www.saorview.ie/en/get/coverage

Sundance_Kid

The Cush wrote: »

Where approx. is the holiday home?

If the Irish channels came in via a shared aerial did you have your own dish for the UK channels or was this via the same cable or another cable from a shared satellite dish?

Is someone responsible for maintaining the shared system, check with them first.

Use this checker to find the recommended transmitter for the holiday home location, it will determine which aerial you will require - https://www.saorview.ie/en/get/coverage

Holiday mobile home is in Wicklow.

Im fairly sure we also shared a satellite too, so would that mean there would have been two cables coming into the back of the tv? One from aerial and one from shared satellite dish?

I am heading down today, will hopefully speak with person regarding the satellite dish. As for the aerial that was set up years ago, will see can I find out more info.

Thanks

Ten Pin

The winter storms might have moved the dish and aerial enough to lose signal.

The Cush

Sundance_Kid wrote: »

Holiday mobile home is in Wicklow.

Im fairly sure we also shared a satellite too, so would that mean there would have been two cables coming into the back of the tv? One from aerial and one from shared satellite dish?

Could it be an aerial also picking up the overspill signal from a transmitter in Wales, sharing the same cable with Saorview? Are you picking up any of the Welsh channels such as BBC Wales, ITV Wales etc.

A satellite feed would require a second cable into the TV.

Sundance_Kid

The Cush wrote: »

Could it be an aerial also picking up the overspill signal from a transmitter in Wales, sharing the same cable with Saorview? Are you picking up any of the Welsh channels such as BBC Wales, ITV Wales etc.

A satellite feed would require a second cable into the TV.

Down here now and someone mentioned that a cable has possibly been cut.

For the standard aerial, would there need to be a cable from that going into the tv also?

I managed to tune in some channels there under the antenna option on the tv. They are coming up as DTV and the likes of bbc wales, e4,sky news,multiple itv options are appearing
But no Irish channels and Im sure that previously if i selected antenna option the irish channels appeared.
And if I selected satellite all the satellite channels would appear but they are not appearing now due to I presume a possible cut cable or cables somewhere.

I took a few pics on phone so can upload when home.

The Cush

Sundance_Kid wrote: »

For the standard aerial, would there need to be a cable from that going into the tv also?

Yes, as mentioned above the TV's tuner decodes the picture/sound/data signal information received from the aerial.

Sundance_Kid wrote: »

I managed to tune in some channels there under the antenna option on the tv. They are coming up as DTV and the likes of bbc wales, e4,sky news,multiple itv options are appearing
But no Irish channels and Im sure that previously if i selected antenna option the irish channels appeared.
And if I selected satellite all the satellite channels would appear but they are not appearing now due to I presume a possible cut cable or cables somewhere.

The channels you mention above are carried on both satellite (via satellite dish) and Freeview transmitter in Llanddona (Wales) with overspill reception possible in parts of Wicklow with an aerial pointing towards Wales.

You say the satellite option isn't working nor are the Irish channels via the aerial, but you can tune in the above channels via an aerial. Do you have 2 cables connected to the TV - 1 push in co-ax connector from an aerial and a screw-on satellite F-connector for a satellite dish or is there just a single cable connected?

Gerry Wicklow

Chances are it's a two aerial setup. One facing east-ish for Wales and the other facing west-ish for Kippure or Mt Leinster. These would arrive at the TV in a single push in coax plug. If the Irish aerial was damaged/missing you could still have the UK channels working. Many people in that part of the world never bothered to replace the old VHF RTÉ aerial as they were only missing TV3.