Lost channels? Look here for transmitter/reception issues

micks_address · 31-07-2020 4:49pm

micks_address wrote: »

No they were actually fine on the Vu.. we did have thunder and lightning so maybe that effected.. how can I measure signal strength?

Is this accurate?

The Cush · 11-01-2021 8:59pm

Heads up for a Saorview outage at Mt Leinster tomorrow between 1500 and 2200 hrs. Unusual to see a scheduled Saorview outage during the primetime period.

https://twitter.com/2rnNMC/status/1348659924532924419?s=19

marclt · 11-01-2021 9:31pm

The Cush wrote: »

Heads up for a Saorview outage at Mt Leinster tomorrow between 1500 and 2200 hrs. Unusual to see a scheduled Saorview outage during the primetime period.

https://twitter.com/2rnNMC/status/1348659924532924419?s=19

When you consider all the updates from 2RN, the fm transmitters at Kippure, Mt Leinster and Three Rock have a lot of work done of them.

It’s been very cold and snowy up there of late, weather damage? It’s mild enough for this emergency work to take place. Guess, we’ll never know.

Harry Palmr · 12-01-2021 7:09pm

I've got no telly!

Irishjg · 12-01-2021 7:12pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I've got no telly!

Me too. All gone. Anyone else got an issue too.

SCOOP 64 · 12-01-2021 7:12pm

just lost all channels on 2 boxes, no rte or virgin, south east

Irishjg · 12-01-2021 7:15pm

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

just lost all channels on 2 boxes, no rte or virgin, south east

I’m in Waterford so I think we get our signal from mt leinster. Probably Wexford Waterford Carlow Kilkenny affected

Fishy1 · 12-01-2021 7:18pm

Me neither! Our Irish channels are gone, UK channels still working. Hoping it’s a temporary issue as per post above.
Waterford based too.

Jakey Rolling · 12-01-2021 7:25pm

The Cush wrote: »

Heads up for a Saorview outage at Mt Leinster tomorrow between 1500 and 2200 hrs. Unusual to see a scheduled Saorview outage during the primetime period.

https://twitter.com/2rnNMC/status/1348659924532924419?s=19

Wish I'd looked here before I checked all my connectors, cables, amplifier etc!

insullation · 12-01-2021 7:27pm

https://www.saorview.ie/en/news/article/planned-service-interruptions-2rn

Irishjg · 12-01-2021 7:29pm

Anyone got a spare dodgy box they can loan me lol. Fishy help lol.

Yamanoto · 12-01-2021 9:19pm

Jakey Rolling wrote: »

Wish I'd looked here before I checked all my connectors, cables, amplifier etc!

Haha, I've literally just checked the thread here up in my attic, before taking a perilous trek to my connections through a pain in the ass assemblage of beams, wires and fibreglass wool

SCOOP 64 · 12-01-2021 9:39pm

All back again.

Irishjg · 12-01-2021 10:00pm

Peace has been restored to the galaxy ... and my sitting room. Now I can get back to watching all the bad news.

emeldc · 13-01-2021 5:59pm

Mine went out at 6pm yesterday too and it's still not back. Anyone else? I've probably fcuked up a connection now fiddling around with it :mad:

Fishy1 · 13-01-2021 7:30pm

Mine came back last night . . .

Irishjg · 13-01-2021 8:01pm

emeldc wrote: »

Mine went out at 6pm yesterday too and it's still not back. Anyone else? I've probably fcuked up a connection now fiddling around with it :mad:

Yes it’s back since last night so you might have pulled your wire the wrong way. :eek:

emeldc · 13-01-2021 8:56pm

Irishjg wrote: »

Yes it’s back since last night so you might have pulled your wire the wrong way. :eek:

I did indeed:D
All good again now, thanks.

Oscarziggy · 16-01-2021 1:06pm

Anyone know what the engineering work was at Mt Leinster please?
I'm 111 miles from there and the signal this morning on RTE1 is "good" and RTE2 is "high" - one on CH23 and the other on CH26 .
It only needs slight lift conditions to send the signal to "no signal" and I've never been able to work it out unless it's co channel interference from Carmel near Swansea which now use 23 and 26 . That would be off the back of my aerial.

Oscarziggy · 23-01-2021 8:13pm

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.

druss · 23-01-2021 11:32pm

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 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?

Oscarziggy · 23-01-2021 11:55pm

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 .

fryup · 22-02-2021 6:23pm

i'm getting glitchy rte1 this past week - woodcock hill clare

anyone else?

mrdtv2010 · 23-02-2021 11:37am

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.

Oscarziggy · 25-02-2021 12:07am

mrdtv2010 wrote: »

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.

Thanks for that info - not a lot I can do about it .
There's high pressure building from tomorrow so expect disruptions .
I'll check out the Divis info when I get a chance .
Thanks

Oscarziggy · 25-02-2021 11:08pm

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 .

Oscarziggy · 01-03-2021 5:12pm

RTE 1 breaking up badly or not there at all today .
A quick scan of channels 21,24 and 27 produced no signals -- I'm not certain if Divis is the problem as it's over 300 miles from here .

WhoElse · 07-03-2021 9:07pm

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!

Sysmod · 15-07-2021 9:49pm

Why RTE1 No Signal but NewsNow works?

Our terrestrial TV signal is from Forth Mountain. This evening we have no channels 1-11 but 21 (news now) is fine. Why would that be?

Elvis Hammond · 16-07-2021 1:44pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117617265#Comment_117617265

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.

Murph_D · 24-10-2021 3:20pm

Anyone aware of any issues with Truskmore at the moment? No signal the past 24 hours.

The Cush · 24-10-2021 6:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118066377#Comment_118066377

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

Nothing reported on their, @2rnNMC, twitter account

FRIENDO · 07-12-2021 6:57pm

Anyone getting issues with Forth Mountain, Co. Wexford

FRIENDO · 07-12-2021 11:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118285970#Comment_118285970

Signal from Forth came back just after 10 👍

Galway · 09-12-2021 9:05pm

CASTLEBAR OUTAGE - There was a prolonged power outage due to storm Barra - TV channels 22 & 25 and all FM radio for a day and a half. Back on this afternooon.

thompa · 23-01-2022 9:44pm

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.

The Cush · 24-01-2022 12:53am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118522879#Comment_118522879

Signal strength too high maybe, do you have any amplifiers in the system?

Can you see a signal strength indicator anywhere in the menu?

Elvis Hammond · 24-01-2022 12:55am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118522879#Comment_118522879

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

thompa · 24-01-2022 4:23pm

Yeah... I'm a **** dope alright 😂 No aerial, it's connected to cable. Reception must be very good that I'm getting any signal at all, an indoor antenna probably would do the job.

dxhound2005 · 05-02-2022 9:48pm

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

dxhound2005 · 09-02-2022 12:02pm

I'm not near a TV to check, but all radio from Clermont Cairn went off air about 10.20 09 Feb. Still off at 11am.

Gerry Wicklow · 09-02-2022 2:19pm

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.

dxhound2005 · 16-02-2022 8:17pm

Newstalk 107.4 from Cavan still off 15 Feb, but noted back at 7 pm 16th.

22-07-2022 5:07pm

https://twitter.com/2rnNMC/status/1550095579757395969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1550095579757395969%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.boards.ie%2Fdiscussion%2F2058255626%2Ftruskmore

Off since mid day!

FRIENDO · 03-08-2022 1:42pm

https://2rn.ie/

Rtenl doing Alot of work today,

Forth mountain is off till 4pm

FRIENDO · 25-11-2022 12:16pm

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

Some bad weather and ESB faults yesterday.

G-Man · 25-11-2022 10:49pm

my lg tv today first plugged in and tuned today has a blank for rte 1 at channel 800. I have other channels rte2, virgin fine, but i am now stuck looking at rte on 806 with sign language..

How do i get normal rte 1 on channel 800..

The Cush · 26-11-2022 12:02am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119922154#Comment_119922154

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.

G-Man · 26-11-2022 2:13pm

You are right i have both freesat and the saorview antenna connected. Its likely tv was on uk region.

sudzs · 15-12-2022 4:49pm

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

Lost channels? Look here for transmitter/reception issues

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