Lost channels? Look here for transmitter/reception issues

suites · 07-03-2011 7:05pm

is an outdoor aerial better i get interference from mobiles on my indoor aerial thanks

suites · 07-03-2011 7:07pm

whats the best outdoor aerial to get im in cabra dublin ??

Machinehead · 20-04-2011 10:12am

Maghera Dtt currently down @ time of posting. Can someone confirm same.

Sam Russell · 20-04-2011 7:29pm

suites wrote: »

whats the best outdoor aerial to get im in cabra dublin ??

A group W is what you need. Almost any wideband aerial will do as the signal should be very strong. I use a log-periodic which works well. In Dublin Ch 54 is used from 3Rock and Kippure. The analogue are down the bottom, and most aerials are Group A which is wrong for DTT.

suites · 25-04-2011 12:08am

thanks for reply

Essexboy · 30-04-2011 12:44pm

Does anyone if Brougher Mountain is off the air?
I have lost all UK channels on analogue.

Peter Rhea · 30-04-2011 1:34pm

Essexboy wrote: »

Does anyone if Brougher Mountain is off the air?

Fine with me atm (13.33).

Doctor_L · 02-05-2011 2:43pm

Hi

my neighbours and I in mid tipp are having problems with suir valley channel 52 anyone else experiencing this outage?

Liam

Doctor_L · 03-05-2011 7:49pm

Kilduff went live in the past few days now receiving it in my attic. A big thank you to e17 for the heads up.

Kilduff is on 52 horizontal originally the plan was for it to be on 50

Liam

jett · 05-05-2011 12:50pm

Perfect signal up to last night, now nothing! In cahir area.
knew it was too good to be true.

The Cush · 05-05-2011 1:27pm

jett wrote: »

Perfect signal up to last night, now nothing! In cahir area.
knew it was too good to be true.

Could be down for maintenance.

jett · 05-05-2011 5:40pm

mysteriously back?

The Cush · 05-05-2011 6:39pm

jett wrote: »

mysteriously back?

Not so mysterious, maintenence probably.

WuTan · 17-05-2011 6:45pm

Lost DTT on Mt.Leinster (Ch45 etc.) about 2pm today 17-May-2011 - I'm in Kilkenny - anyone see the same problem i.e. transmitter is down or do I need to start investigating cables, box & antenna?

Blind scan got the channels back - haven't got to investigate (receiver in parent's house) but sounds like frequency/channels changed - anybody had a similar experience?

jett · 18-05-2011 2:37pm

The pictures been breaking up all week.
Knew it was too good to last.
If it works perfectly for a while and then does not surely it just is not good enough?
I suppose they would blame atmospherics?

Vince Cable · 18-05-2011 4:34pm

jett wrote: »

If it works perfectly for a while and then does not surely it just is not good enough?

Maybe we should reserve judgement until the so-called 'full' launch, whenever that might be.

They might even let the public know about any work being done on transmitters then, and not leave people guessing as to what the problem might be.

The Cush · 19-05-2011 12:36am

Has the mast replacement work started at Maghera and Mt Leinster yet?

liamtech · 19-05-2011 1:44am

mossym wrote: »

is watching DTT going to be like an episode of little Britain then?

Can i watch TV tonight?

Weather says no....

thankfully i have a sat dish, but for those people who are going to rely on DTT for their tv, how annoying is it going to be when the weather goes a certain way and they end up with nothing to watch?

The weather was terrible tonight... and i had a perfect reception of all my digital terrestrial stations, (RTE news, RTE1, and TV3 - there the ones i watched tonight anyway) - in all honesty perhaps your equipment is not configured correctly

swoofer · 19-05-2011 10:11am

tv3 and 3 e is pants at the moment, and last night Vincent Browne was awful. I am on maghera.

gbcullen

Sam Russell · 19-05-2011 12:04pm

3 Rock has gone since 11:30 this morning, still gone at 12:00.

Reg'stoy · 19-05-2011 12:16pm

Can confirm three rock as down did a rescan and picked up channel 58 which shows test channel 8 as an invalid service on my LG TV.

liamtech · 19-05-2011 12:48pm

Getting a terrible reception across the board at the moment - seriously on the third morning of the Queens visit to ireland, and the unfortunate passing of Dr FitzGerald, i find this Disgracefull - WHat are you playing at Saorview - if your gonna start messing with the signal can you not at least provide SOME warning?:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Kensington · 19-05-2011 12:51pm

liamtech wrote: »

Getting a terrible reception across the board at the moment - seriously on the third morning of the Queens visit to ireland, and the unfortunate passing of Dr FitzGerald, i find this Disgracefull - WHat are you playing at Saorview - if your gonna start messing with the signal can you not at least provide SOME warning?:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Bear in mind it doesn't *officially* launch until the end of this month. It is still in trial phase so there will be inevitably be disruption.

Vince Cable · 19-05-2011 12:55pm

liamtech wrote: »

Disgracefull - WHat are you playing at Saorview - if your gonna start messing with the signal can you not at least provide SOME warning?:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Did people ever get so angry about poor analogue coverage (if not, why not?)?

Fr0g · 19-05-2011 12:56pm

I have heard that authorities are busily scanning and disrupting all frequencies at the moment because of the Queens visit. Radio based broadband is unusable at the moment. Does anybody know if this is likely or even possible?

Joe7 · 19-05-2011 1:07pm

Heard from who, the voices in your head?

liamtech · 19-05-2011 1:18pm

Kensington wrote: »

Bear in mind it doesn't *officially* launch until the end of this month. It is still in trial phase so there will be inevitably be disruption.

A truely professional company would endeavor to conduct work at night when less are reliant on their service - at mid-day during a historic visit, this is ridiculous - And gives a very poor impression of saorview... Is everyone else experiencing the same issues....

Kensington · 19-05-2011 1:33pm

liamtech wrote: »

A truely professional company would endeavor to conduct work at night when less are reliant on their service - at mid-day during a historic visit, this is ridiculous - And gives a very poor impression of saorview... Is everyone else experiencing the same issues....

Is analogue down also? If it is, then that would suggest something more serious has happened.
As regards Saorview, it is not a service yet. The current official terrestrial television service is broadcast in analogue format.

Sam Russell · 19-05-2011 1:50pm

Well it came back from 3Rock, but on 58, and then later on 54 and 58. So the second mux was fired up. I wonder why?

Hibrasil · 19-05-2011 2:17pm

Kensington wrote: »

Is analogue down also? If it is, then that would suggest something more serious has happened.
As regards Saorview, it is not a service yet. The current official terrestrial television service is broadcast in analogue format.

During time DTT was off air (no signal message on TV)....analogue was still broadcasting.....when DTT came back on air I did a channel scan and all the channels reappeared at 54.... there was a long pause while scanning 58.....before before scan moved to completion....in the end...I had no more extra channels than before (six channels plus No's 7 & 8 - the designated Test Channels).

Keep them guessing seems to be RTENL's motto!!!

Sam Russell · 19-05-2011 3:41pm

Both 54 and 58 are broadcasting the same content which is why there are no extra channels.

Fr0g · 19-05-2011 4:58pm

Joe7 wrote: »

Heard from who, the voices in your head?

A customer of mine. At least that was the spiel he was given when he complained. Is there a reason for your attitude? Please elaborate.

Joe7 · 19-05-2011 5:07pm

You have 'customers' too?!

That's a great little fantasy you've got going there! Keep taking your meds.

liamtech · 19-05-2011 5:34pm

Joe7 wrote: »

You have 'customers' too?!

That's a great little fantasy you've got going there! Keep taking your meds.

I must say thats a disgraceful attitude you have... everyone is entitled to post here, and should not be ridiculed by their fellow boarders...

Fr0g · 19-05-2011 5:35pm

Joe7 wrote: »

You have 'customers' too?!

That's a great little fantasy you've got going there! Keep taking your meds.

?

OK if you having nothing to contribute I suggest you take your smart arse comments elsewhere.

Kensington · 19-05-2011 5:43pm

Sam Russell wrote: »

Well it came back from 3Rock, but on 58, and then later on 54 and 58. So the second mux was fired up. I wonder why?

Hibrasil wrote:

During time DTT was off air (no signal message on TV)....analogue was still broadcasting.....when DTT came back on air I did a channel scan and all the channels reappeared at 54.... there was a long pause while scanning 58.....before before scan moved to completion....in the end...I had no more extra channels than before (six channels plus No's 7 & 8 - the designated Test Channels).

That would probably explain it so. Putting an extra mux on air would involve taking everything on the antenna array off air to avoid damage to equipment or cooking yourself! Mux 2 is required to be placed on air as a second PSB mux.

The long pause during scanning would be your TV sifting out duplicate channels. If Mux 2 is broadcasting the same TS as Mux 1, it will simply ignore it to avoid ending up with two listings of each channel.

Sam Russell · 19-05-2011 6:20pm

For a while 3 Rock was broadcasting on 58 only and then reinstated 54. Later, they turned off 58.

Anchises · 19-05-2011 6:28pm

Anybody suffering loss of digital in Cork ? or is it only me

No diigital in Glanmire and analogue is very bad as well

A.

Joe7 · 19-05-2011 8:34pm

liamtech wrote: »

I must say thats a disgraceful attitude you have... everyone is entitled to post here, and should not be ridiculed by their fellow boarders...

Most of your posts read like they were written by a hysterical old woman.

Get a sense of perspective.

The Cush · 19-05-2011 9:20pm

Anchises wrote: »

Anybody suffering loss of digital in Cork ? or is it only me

No diigital in Glanmire and analogue is very bad as well

Conspiracy theory

- the Queen's going there tomorrow, any connection?

Anchises · 20-05-2011 12:24am

aaah ! The wisdom of age.....

You could be right

A.

liamtech · 20-05-2011 12:42am

Joe7 wrote: »

Most of your posts read like they were written by a hysterical old woman.

Get a sense of perspective.

I have deleted my original response to this trash.... You obviously extract a certain joy out of insulting people on this thread. And while my initial anger compelled me to respond in kind, cooler heads have prevailed in the end - I find many of your comments insulting and clearly baiting... but what ever makes you happy my friend...

Joe7 · 20-05-2011 9:42pm

liamtech wrote: »

And while my initial anger compelled me to respond in kind....

You should have just reported the original post you took issue with (which was none of your business), leave the modding to the mods.

liamtech · 20-05-2011 9:53pm

Joe7 wrote: »

You should have just reported the original post you took issue with (which was none of your business), leave the modding to the mods.

To say that a PUBLIC POST ON A PUBLIC FORUM is not my "Business" is a little bit funny to be honest...

Anyway to get back on topic it seems that the service is back up and running today - no further signal issues!

Joe7 · 20-05-2011 10:03pm

liamtech wrote: »

To say that a PUBLIC POST ON A PUBLIC FORUM is not my "Business" is a little bit funny to be honest...

It was directed at one user whose post I decided to (harmlessly) take the piSs out of a little.

The person concerned was perfectly capable of standing up for him/herself.

Jim from Cork · 23-05-2011 11:26am

Anchises wrote: »

Anybody suffering loss of digital in Cork ? or is it only me

No diigital in Glanmire and analogue is very bad as well

A.

I'm in Glanmire too. My digital has been pure crap for a few days now. Stuttering and stopping to such an extent that it is unwatchable.

Is there something I can check?

Machinehead · 23-05-2011 12:59pm

Big power increase on mux 1 (ch.48) channel 48 just a while ago. Mux 2 on channel 55 now showing signs of life, very weak though

Fr0g · 23-05-2011 3:26pm

Joe7 wrote: »

It was directed at one user whose post I decided to (harmlessly) take the piss out of a little.

The person concerned was perfectly capable of standing up for him/herself.

Judging by your previous posts I think perhaps you confuse sarcasm with having a sense of humour. It was a genuine question and my skepticism was clearly implied in the post. All you managed to do was disrupt a previously informative and well behaved thread.

That's my last word on it.

jaggiebunnet · 24-05-2011 10:08am

Jim from Cork wrote: »

I'm in Glanmire too. My digital has been pure crap for a few days now. Stuttering and stopping to such an extent that it is unwatchable.

Is there something I can check?

Yeah mines in Glanmire has gone too - had gone towards the end of last week as well but back at the weekend but gone again

hopefully a temp blip.

jaggiebunnet · 25-05-2011 8:37pm

anyone in glanmire go their signal back yet?

Lost channels? Look here for transmitter/reception issues

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