Attic Aerial Kippure

Dr_Colossus

Barely if ever watch live TV but reconnecting an old 4lnb satelite dish for the freesat channels so would be good to have the saorview selection available also as don't want a repeat of last year trying to watch the all-Ireland on the dysfunctional RTE player.

Dublin 15 based and Saorview site shows Kippure as best transmitter which is 24km away. Showing channels 34,35 and H polarisation although that means nothing to me and equally as unfamiliar with all the different channel groups, colour codes and associated aerials.

Don't want to place an aerial externally and with plenty of space in the attic and ability to run coaxial to any TV set that would be the preferred option if at all possible. The attic is a cold roof so just the felt and tiles rather than any foil backed insulation board to block signal so hopefully that's functional. Don't mind how big the aerial itself is if it can provide a good signal. Can anyone recommend the best aerial for my needs please?

Previous threads mention this 32 Element UHF TV Aerial a number of times:
https://www.freetv.ie/aerial-for-saorview/
but there's also mention of this 36 Element Stub Tuner Super Log Periodic Aerial also
https://cpcireland.farnell.com/vision/v10-36l/aerial-36-log-stub-tuning-4g-lte/dp/AP02459

Thanks

winston_1

First of all there are no 32 or 36 element aerials. The max number is around 21.
The first one they have counted the elements 4 times, although there only appear to be 7 so they seem to have added even more from somewhere.

The second aerial is an 18 element log periodic, though they have counted the elements twice. I would go with the log periodic. They are excellent aerials and what the broadcasters use on relay sites.

mackersdublin

https://www.freetv.ie/red-group-a-uhf-aerial/

Will work for Dublin 15

athlone573

mackersdublin wrote: »

https://www.freetv.ie/red-group-a-uhf-aerial/

Will work for Dublin 15

It's unclear whether the above is a statement or a question.

The frequencies on that site (and thus likely the colours) are out of date.

Elvis Hammond

Kippure & Three Rock frequencies are all in group A now, so that aerial is fine for either.

athlone573

Elvis Hammond wrote: »

Kippure & Three Rock frequencies are all in group A now, so that aerial is fine for either.

This may be a stupid question but do Three Rock and Kippure ever clash seeing as they're so close or are they on different sides of the Dublin mountains?

marclt

athlone573 wrote: »

This may be a stupid question but do Three Rock and Kippure ever clash seeing as they're so close or are they on different sides of the Dublin mountains?

No, they are all on different frequencies.

Elvis Hammond

athlone573 wrote: »

This may be a stupid question but do Three Rock and Kippure ever clash seeing as they're so close or are they on different sides of the Dublin mountains?

Digital TV signals (the kind we use anyway) can work in adjacent channels where analogue would have had problems, as the radio energy is better contained within the channel bandwidth.

Three Rock & Kippure even used the same channels for a while, as an SFN (Single Frequency Network), with both transmitters sync'd to avoid 'clashing'.