Details of Deflector Systems in Co. Waterford

Antenna

Channel details of most (if not all) Deflector systems in County Waterford as of August 2002. Includes UHF channel numbers of the TV stations, aerial polarisation (i.e. Horizontal or Vertical) and aerial type.
this info from a TV aerial installer in the area...

Main deflectors:

Harristown near Dunmore East (services East Co. Waterford, Tramore etc, parts of S.W. Wexford) Coastal Multi Systems
Vertical Polarisation, Aerial Type: Group C/D or Wideband
48 BBC2
55 HTV
65 BBC 1
69 Channel 4

Comeraghs-Coummahon (serves Mid Co. Waterford) Mid Waterford Community TV
Vertical Polarisation. Aerial Type: Group A (preferred) or Wideband
22 Channel 4
25 HTV
28 BBC2
33 BBC1

Comeraghs-Monavullagh (services areas of West Co. Waterford, parts of Co.Cork) South Coast TV
Vertical Polarisation. Aerial Type: Group C/D or Wideband
61 BBC2
64 S4C
66 HTV
69 BBC1

Low power deflectors:

Passage East village, (services Passage East village) Coastal Multi systems
Vertical Polarisation. Aerial Type: Group A (preferred) or Wideband
21 BBC2
30 HTV
32 BBC1
34 Channel 4

Mossy Monk

thanks for the list. i can pick up signals from the 3 main ones but could never figure out what signals were coming from where

mike65

Deflector systems? I thought these were dead and gone or is this like pirate radio, its supposed to belong to a bygone era?.

When I lived on the Old Kilmeaden Road we got our hazy UK
channels from Harristown. Bloody S4C! :mad:

Mike.

Mossy Monk

weren't they given a license until when DTT gets going?

thankfully S4C is only an option now unlike before

lawhec

What I cannot understand with the deflectors is why they don't seem to follow the normal channel groupings that the normal transmitters use. With the close exception of Comeraghs-Coummahon, there isn't the usual pattern that channel groupings have. Why is this?

Mossy Monk

i don't have any idea but maybe they take whatever they can get

Antenna, Dunmore East broadcast Granada on channel 55 and not HTV

At a guess I would say, that since they were at the start using presely for their feed,they kept well away from it's B group when deflecting.
laterly, they would have had to avoid the various TV3/TG4 uhf's.
Since a lot of them these days use Digiboxes,theres less need to avoid interfering with their presely source, a tidy up though would be too messy now that most of the users have wide band grids anyhow.
mm

bkehoe

Last time I looked, 55 from Dunmore East was HTV Wales, though that was when it was still sourced from Presely. Took down the aerial when ITV came onto sky so dont know what is there now.

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by bkehoe
Last time I looked, 55 from Dunmore East was HTV Wales, though that was when it was still sourced from Presely. Took down the aerial when ITV came onto sky so dont know what is there now.

it's definately Granada now. they've hijacked it from the Sky Dodgybox

Mossy Monk

Channel 5 now seems to have taken the place of Channel 4 from Dunmore East on ch.69 . is this permanent or has someone put it on by accident?