best tv option Roundwood Wicklow

bkbyrne

Hi Guys,

I'm soon to move to Roundwood am I am wondering what my best tv option is. Sky/Chorus/Freeview etc

At the moment my friend gets pretty good reception by aerial. It must come from wales as BBC Wales, SC4 are standard and good reception. I guess we are pretty high up.......would freeview work??

tks for any advice you can give.

Barry

It depends.
Up there some use presely while others use Blaenplwyf both of which are DTT enabled.
Do they have channel five, thats on presely only.
And is the aerial horizontal or vertical?

It needs to be pointing like this to be horizontal



whereas sitting up like this is vertically polarised



If the aerial is vertical then there will be no freeview as its most likely getting pictures from the analog arfon relay.

You might be better off with sky digital though and a FTV card(see the satelite board)

lawhec

Do they have channel five, thats on presely only.

Hate being picky, but Five is available from Blaenplwyf albeit on Ch.56 on 4kW - meaning it's out of group from the other four terrestial channels and on such ridiclously low power that it's bound to be weak by the time it reaches the coast, if it actually does.

It doesnt I can assure you.
I'd forgotten about its weeny Blaenplwyf tx

If they have ch5 it would have to be presely
But the answer to which tx is being used is in the aerial.

Capt'n Midnight

another option is to get a FTA reciever or second hand digibox for your BBC needs, and hope UTV & C5 go free to air.

One advantage of an aerial is that you can watch more than one channel unlike a sat system. Don't forget that Analog TV will be switched off in the UK before here and I don't know if they are going to up the power on the DTT or not. If they do the a freeview box might be an option then.

atlantean

Another option is to get your hands on a UK FTV card and a Sky digibox. That way you can get BBC 1, 2, 3, 4, ITV 1, 2, 3, C4 and C5.

Macy

In Roundwood it seems to depend on the local terrain, but there's enough houses with ariels to suggest that you can get the UK stations. Whether the signal quality is good enough for DTT is another matter. Seems to me that people are getting them from all three of the transmitters mentioned.

Irish terrestrial reception isn't great either. Could be a case of getting that from the Laragh relay, plus Mount Leinster for TV3 - although again could depend on where you'll be living again. I think there's a relay in Ashford, which could come into play if you're that side of the village.

There is no Chorus in Roundwood, afaik. There's one house right out near the Sugarloaf that has an MMDS dish, but that's it.