Freeview in Dundalk ?

eirman

Can Freeview be received in Dundalk or even further south ?
If so what type of aerial would be required ?

DMC

Hi eirman... To know is to answer this question... Can you get Channel 5 off the aerial?

The Padzter

I live in Armagh, and I was able to get a watchable analogue Channel 5 picture with no amplifiers of any sort. When I tried a Freeview receiver on that aerial I could not pick up all the MUX's, and was missing UTV, Channel 4, ITV 2, and a few others.

With an amplifier added I was able to get a quite good picture on analogue Channel 5, stereo sound and quite good Teletext, and was then able to get all the channels on Freeview, but some of them, especially ITV 2/Channel 4/UTV and the music channels were prone to breakup. This was though probably due to the aerial, which was smallish compared to most aerials. I am purchasing a nice big Televes 45 from Satcure for £35 and getting the installer to put it up instead.

Things should greatly improve then, as it has a nice big gain on it!

Padzter

DMC

Padzter, more information would prove invalueable here.

Can you tell us, roughly, you dont have to be exact, where in relation to Camlough Mtn are you? N,S,E or W???

eirman

Hi DMC. This thread is just a general enquiry. I'm still living in Dublin and will be moving northward later this year - Thanks to all.