160 miles is a hell of a long way for UHF, are you in Wales?
Oops it's 90 odd miles sorry!
I was looking at the distance to the Isle of Man for Manx Radio.
Yes - Pembrokeshire on a hill !
It's possible that in lift conditions your unwanted signal is nearly as strong, or as strong, as your wanted one.
Assuming you already have an aerial as big as practicable, as high as possible, and correctly aligned, there's not much more you can do to get more wanted signal - a phased array maybe?
VPN and RTE Player 😁 (hard enough to get it to work right from over here!)
BBC Radios from Camlough off air from 08:28. TV working OK in Dundalk.
High winds could cause problems with television and radio reception across parts of the country.
TRANSMITTER NAME:
Camlough
COVERAGE PREDICTION:
Good
The transmitter has reported issues at the moment which is affecting some viewers.
TIMESTAMP
STATION
STATUS
From 8:28am on 24th Jan 2025
BBC Radio 1
Off the air due to a fault
From 8:50am on 24th Jan 2025
BBC Radio 2
From 8:47am on 24th Jan 2025
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 4
I’m sure there are other sites down? But if the wider community has no power, it may not be being reported.
There are no notices on the 2rn site about outages due to the weather. The BBC site has a transmitter checker. I used a Newry postcode to search for Camlough faults.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/works-warnings
Thanks for the comments about Mt Leinster signals — I have a feeling it's the signals from Carmel on the same frequencies that are causing the problems.
No lift conditions these last few days and signals rock solid .
Only notice I saw on the 2rn site about outages for the storm:
2rn - Storm Éowyn - 2rn
Cnoc An Oir all FM and Saorview services still out for me.
not sure if this list is being updated on 2rn
These services came back on air around 4pm Saturday in my area.
Due to maintenance work our Three Rock transmitter will be subject to short outages between 09:30 and 17:00 on Tuesday 4th February 2025. This work will affect all Saorview services from this transmitter site. 2rn apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.
https://2rn.ie/2rn-three-rock-co-dublin/
Is this work happening today instead?
I turned on the TV today & got no signal from RTÉ2 on Saorview.
I didn't have any outages from Three Rock yesterday.
I've have another update about receiving the Saorview channels from Three Rock this evening.
Ch.30 is giving me 41% Signal Intensity & 10% Signal Quality. Ch.33 has given me the same data.
It was raining in Dublin yesterday morning. I'm not sure if that work at Three Rock was delayed until earlier today.
Another update here. I got my Saorview channels back now.
I had to switch off my Saorview box to get the signal back again.
Radio stations off air as I post this from 2rn.
Due to essential engineering work our Clermont Carn transmitter will be subject to a complete outage between 09:00 and 18:00 on Wednesday 23rd to Thursday 24th April 2025. The work will affect all FM radio services from this transmitter site. 2rn apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.
Radio reducing power as well as outages. There are also notices on the 2rn site about work on Mullaghanish and Truskmore, as well as some low power transmitters.
"Due to essential engineering works our Clermont Carn transmitter will be subject to complete outage of up to 2 hours between 09:00 and 17:00 on both days of 25th and 26th June 2025. Please note that this work will be weather dependent. This work will affect all RTÉ FM service from this transmitter site. 2rn apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work."
On 2rn 20 Sept. All radios except Newstalk on 107.9 off at 10:44.
Please be advised that essential maintenance works will be conducted at our Clermont Carn transmission facility on Thursday, September 25th, 2025. During this period, complete service interruptions of up to 3 hours may occur between 10:00 and 16:00.
This maintenance will impact all RTÉ Radio services transmitted from this location.
We appreciate your patience and understanding during this necessary system Work.
2rn apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary
Monaghan seems to be down with the storm. Great.
Please see list of transmitter sites that have lost ESB supply due to Storm Amy and services impacted.
2rn apologies for any inconvenience caused by these ESB outages.
Ballybofey back from around 9PM
This is where a future Saorview DVB-I upgrade comes in, if a transmitter goes down the TV will seamlessly move to IP reception of the TV channels, provided fibre and power lines remain intact of course
Still three listed as off, 3.15 pm.
Ever since the storm, I'm having issues with one of the MUXs from Monaghan. I can get CH40 fine, but CH43 is very low and can't seem to receive all the channels from it when it gets tuned in, only a handful and they are mostly data channels. Is anyone else having problems? I'm having the same issue on al the TV's in the house.
43 carries MUX 2, main channels RTE 1, Virgin 3 & 4, Challenge, RTE 1+1 & 2+1, RTE Junior and Sky News.
If you are getting any of those, they should all be there at the same level. Something happened to your aerial during the storm?
Yeah it's RTÉ ONE I'm missing, the aerial looks fine, and I'm getting Mux 1 100% signal strength and quality, and all the Freeview channels also without any issues. Just that one Mux that's coming in at 15%.
It could be something as simple as a bad connection somewhere, it can cause issues for one frequency over another. Check any accessible connections for condition.
Are you using two aerials, for Saorview and Freeview? If so, how are they combined?
Yes, two aerials for Monaghan and Divis, they are combined and distributed round the house from a powered amplifier in the attic and down to wall sockets in each room. I'll have to check the connections at the back and see if something has moved. Evertything externally seems to be fine.
OK, I checked behind the TV's and it turns out the connections to the wall were slightly loose after a clean behind the telly!
A little push and now everything is coming in like before. Crisis averted!
That's the advantage of F-connectors (screw on) - usually used for satellite TV but ideal for terrestrial, too.
The Belling-Lee connector (push on) was designed in the 1920s for Medium Wave and isn't even optimal for FM radio never mind TV!
That was some coincidence, the problem happening at the same time as the storm. Which knocked out the transmitter for a couple of days.
