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druss wrote: »

I was watching football on 13 east for most of the day. I've only just noticed that terrestrial channels are all offline/too glitchy to watch. I presume Mount Leinster is suffering still?

That's exactly what I get during the slightest hint of a lift - RTE1 unwatchable - RTE2 glitch free .
All stations on C23 unwatchable C26 channels ok -- it could be the other way round as I'm not sure what channels are on which .
Very odd .

Oscarziggy wrote: »

Lift conditions tonight - RTE1,Vm3 etc wiped out then broken up from Mt Leinster - signal level rapidly changing from "no signal" to "good".
RTE 2 etc not affected with "good" signal.
Wish I could get to the bottom of this .
I'm not convinced it's co channel from Carmel near Swansea as I'm on the side of a north facing hill shielded from Carmel .
It did this long before Carmel changed to C23 and C26.

I would wager your CCI is Divis in Northern Ireland. IIRC you live in West Wales and as your aerial points towards Mt Leinster it is bound to pick up sea path reflections from Divis in lift conditions and Divis is a much higher power transmitter than Carmel. I recall seeing on digitalspy in 2012 that in North Wales in higher parts along the coast between Anglesey and Liverpool Divis analogue was a regular if noisy service (CCIR Grade 3 PAL.)

The other tell is that the CCI has been present before Carmel did its 700Mhz switchover: Divis E23 and E26 has been operating for years as a DTT service. It is received easily on the Isle of Man and stayed Group A for the main muxes at the 700Mhz change.

Next time I have problems with c23 or c26 I'll do a manual scan of c21,c24 and c27 to see what comes up.
Could well be in the next week .

I have a reasonably new lgtv (maybe 3 years old), which took satellite from astra and terrestrial from a UHF aerial in the attic, pointed at the nearest tower. This worked well for the last while, but last week all terrestrial channels disappeared.

I reseated all the cables, auto retuned, and only got 6 dtv channels and 9 antennae radio. Im missing rte1, rte1+1, and maybe a Virgin channel?

I tried looking up spur hill signal details, and tried manual tuning based on frequencies I saw listed online but no joy.

It's probably simple, but I'm not experienced with this. Any guidance is very welcome!

High pressure weather will probably cause you problems for the next few days.

RTE1 & News Now are on different muxes. You wouldn't be missing all the channels from 1 - 11, with NN still there.

24 hours and no other reports sounds like an issue at your end.

Nothing reported on their, @2rnNMC, twitter account

Signal from Forth came back just after 10 👍

Hi, I have a rather strange problem. I'm losing all multiplex 2 channels on Saorview when my TV is plugged into the TV antenna plug with a regular coax cable. Mux 1 works no problem. When I unplug the cable from the wall and leave the free hanging end in a certain position on the table, all mux 2 channels show up again. Anyone know what could cause this? I mean it's not really a problem as long as there's a signal, but obviously it's more vulnerable like this vs being plugged in. For what it's worth, I'm based in Ranelagh.

I assume the wall socket is definitely connected to an aerial, & isn't say for cable TV, or not connected to anything?

Newstalk on 107.4 is off the air, noted early Saturday 05 February. The transmitter is Mohercrom(e) in Cavan.

Still no sign of Newstalk 107.4 returning. It was also off a few weeks back. Either they have a major hardware failure or just don't give a damn. Whoever looks after their TX equipment leaves a lot to be desired IMO.

Forth Mountain Saorview down since yesterday afternoon, hopefully it will be back later today.

Some bad weather and ESB faults yesterday.

Because the channels start at 800 I assume you've installed the TV with UK as the region, for Freesat?

Using that install Saorview channels, blank channels, hidden channels etc. are stored randomly as found and multiple times if receiving from other transmitters.

Have a look down through the 800s it will be in there somewhere provided the TV is receiving an adequate signal for that particular frequency.

Retuning the TV with Ireland as the region stores the Saorview in the correct order, from 1 RTE 1 onwards.

Has anyone else on the Clermont Carn transmitter lost RTE1 ?? It was pixelated all week, I did a retune and it's gone completely now. As is Virgin Media 3 and Sky News