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TV Reception in Dundalk... Ch4 gone?!

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  • 19-06-2007 8:49pm
    #1
    sudzs
    Registered Users Posts: 8,721 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else with an old fashioned arial for their TV in Dundalk?

    How's your Channel 4 reception these last few nights? Mine is terrible!

    All curvy black and white lines with a bit of picture and sound coming every so often but it just makes it unwatchable.

    So is it just me or anyone else suffering?!


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    #2
    sudzs
    Registered Users Posts: 8,721 ✭✭✭sudzs


    ....actually, it seems o.k. tonight... :o


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    Atomic Pineapple
    Registered Users Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    yeh sudz, am not in dundalk but mine goes good a bad with the weather


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    sudzs
    Registered Users Posts: 8,721 ✭✭✭sudzs


    Usually it's BBC that goes wobbly with high pressure so got a bit freaked when Ch4 got unbearable with the depression around at the mo.

    Am avoiding any other means of TV reception for as long as possible!!! :D


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    Dundalk Daily
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭Dundalk Daily


    BBC and C4 always got bad for me in summer. I got rid off the aeriel and have these channels coming in through my dish now, havent looked back.


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    Kalashnikov_Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Kalashnikov_Kid


    BBC1's usually the worst culprit in my house. TG4 can be pretty lousy too


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    cournioni
    Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    Can't say I have any problems with any of the stations in the my house apart from Channel 5 at times, which is to be expected I guess. When the fog hits it can mess up all of the stations or maybe the tv set itself though.


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    lucernarian
    Registered Users Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    UTV from Kilkeel on Ch 49 (You can only get it in places further south from Dunleer but still:)) was completely gone, though the other 3 were fine. Seeing as I could pick up a fuzzy UTV from Belfast on Ch 24, it seems to have been a temporary failure. Channel 4 seemed to be fine throughout. Happened this afternoon.

    If it goes again, try scanning/tuning the TV fully. I find that usually when the channels from Kilkeel are knocked out, I can pick up a near-perfect signal from North-East England (caldbeck) or even BBC 1 Scotland from Rothesay or from the Isle of Mann.


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    qwertplaywert
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭qwertplaywert


    we get all the channels [including a semi-blurry uk five] but the whole sky system goes out whenever heavy rain occurs


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    #10
    purplegeko
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭purplegeko


    We got a flashy new aerial last summer and the channel 4 is still rubbish. BBC 2 is just blank after about 11pm its really weird coz its fine up until then. Good job we have sky.


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    JenniFurr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭JenniFurr


    I dont live in dundalk, yet (moving up in august), but ive been told anytime im up its the new wind power thingy by the college that ****s up C4 in the surounding areas. Could be completely and utterly wrong tho!


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    Bard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Wouldn't be surprised, it f**ks up a few other signals that I know of.

    Channel 4, however, was always bad for me in the summer time - or any time of high pressure / good weather.


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