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Antenna

Knockmoyle(Slieve Mish Mts) Co. Kerry and a couple of other current announcements of work:

RTÉNL - Knockmoyle, Co. Kerry
Due to essential engineering works, our Knockmoyle transmitter may be off the air between 10:00 & 16:00 on 4th or 5th April.

These essential engineering works will affect FM radio services from this transmitter.

RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.



RTÉNL - Kippure, Co. Wicklow

Due to essential engineering works, our Kippure transmitter will be subject to a short interruption between 10:00 & 12:00 on 9th April.

These essential engineering works will affect SaorView services from this transmitter.

RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work


RTÉNL - Castletownbere, Co. Cork

Due to essential engineering works, our Castletownbere transmitter will be subject to interruptions between 10:00 & 16:30 on 9th & 10th April.

These essential engineering works will affect FM radio services from this transmitter.

RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.

Antenna

I heard that on Tuesday - Radio Kerry were off the air from Mullaghanish (97.0FM) all morning until about midday. I don't think anything else was affected?

Antenna

current notices:

Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Castletownbere, Co. Cork

RTÉNL Engineering Division have identified a fault condition with our SaorView transmitter at Castletownbere; this issue can result in intermittent disturbance to the SaorView signal during conditions of high wind speeds at the transmitter site. RTÉNL engineering teams are currently working on the issue & hope to have the matter resolved shortly. RTÉNL apologise for this reduction in level of service.


Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Castletownbere, Co. Cork

Due to essential engineering works, our Castletownbere transmitter may be off the air between 14:00 & 18:00 on 14th May and between 9:00 & 16:00 on 15th May.

These essential engineering works will affect FM radio services from this transmitter.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.




Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Clermont Carn, Co. Louth

Due to essential engineering works, our Clermont Carn transmitter may be off the air on either 15th or 16th May between 10:00 & 17:00.

These essential engineering works will affect FM radio services from this transmitter.

RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.
Service Notification:




RTÉNL - Mullaghanish, Co. Cork

Due to essential engineering works, our Mullaghanish transmitter will be operating on reduced power between 9:00 & 17:00 and be off the air for 30 minutes during this period on 28th May.
These essential engineering works will affect FM radio services from this transmitter.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.

Antenna

an update about Castletownbere:

Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Castletownbere, Co. Cork

RTÉNL Engineering Division have performed remedial repairs to alleviate the fault condition at our SaorView station at Castletownbere; this fault condition has been identified as caused by the theft from the site of essential copper earthing which caused a decline in normal transmitter operation. RTÉNL engineering teams are currently working on a lasting repair and hope to have the matter resolved shortly.

Mr. Rabbit

These essential engineering works will affect FM radio services from this transmitter

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Wonder if they're doing something to the RTE DAB service from this transmitter ?

The change in signal strength to Saorview from CC post DSO was quite remarkable. While the FM signals get well into NI, the same can't be said for DAB from the same location.

Peter Rhea

Not getting any Saorview from Monaghan atm. If it's a transmitter problem, I wonder is it just Monaghan or is Clermont off too?

Peter Rhea

Well, it's back now, whatever was wrong.

marno21

Mr. Rabbit wrote: »

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Wonder if they're doing something to the RTE DAB service from this transmitter ?

The change in signal strength to Saorview from CC post DSO was quite remarkable. While the FM signals get well into NI, the same can't be said for DAB from the same location.

Clermont Carn's FM signals can be received in Co. Cork so it's no surprise they get into NI

Mr. Rabbit

marno21 wrote: »

Clermont Carn's FM signals can be received in Co. Cork so it's no surprise they get into NI

Yep, must have one of the best FM coverage areas of any transmitter in the whole of the British Isles marno. You can get it as far north as Portrush, believe it or not and it certainly gets out well south of Dublin.

It's strange DAB is so weak. Sometimes the radio stops on a retune but doesn't save anything. It was the same with Saorview before DSO.

It would be nice if they could do something with the DAB signal with regard to NI especially with 567khz now gone and the fact that Lyric FM reception is so poor due to Carnmoney Hill.

Still, I suppos we can get the mux on Saorview now so at least that's something.

Antenna

current notices:

Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Mt. Leinster, Co. Carlow

Due to antenna upgrade work at our Mt Leinster main station SaorView services in the South East will experience daytime interruption to service on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th June, this essential engineering work will also affect Mt Leinster relay stations in Co. Tipperary, Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford and Wicklow. RTÉNL would like to apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused by this essential engineering work.

RTÉNL - Mt. Gabriel, Co. Cork
Due to essential engineering works, our Mt. Gabriel transmitter will be subject to short interruptions between 10:00 & 16:30 on 6th June.
These essential engineering works will affect SaorView services from this transmitter.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.


RTÉNL - Achill, Co. Mayo
Due to essential engineering works, our Achill transmitter will be off the air for 2 hours 30 minutes from 14:00 on 6th June.
These essential engineering works will affect FM radio services from this transmitter.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.


RTÉNL - Drimoleague, Co. Cork
Due to essential engineering works, our Drimoleague transmitter will be subject to short interruptions between 10:00 & 16:30 on 7th June.
These essential engineering works will affect SaorView and FM radio services from this transmitter.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.

marno21

Is that an error for Drimoleague, there's no FM services on Drimoleague?

alchemist33

Any issues in Letterkenny? Our saorview has disappeared but freeview from the north is operating as usual.

zooropa2012

Any ideas why the Mount Leinster transmitter is off air just now in Waterford?

Gerry Wicklow

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=84947019&postcount=641

Antenna

current notices:

Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Mt. Leinster, Co. Carlow
Due to essential engineering works, our Mt. Leinster transmitter will be subject to interruption on 25th, 26th and 27th June between 00:05 & 06:05
This work will affect FM radio services from this transmitter.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.

Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Ballina, Co. Tipperary
Due to essential infrastructure works, our Ballina transmitter will be off the air for up to 4 hours between 09:00 & 13:00 on 26th June.
This work will affect SaorView services from this transmitter.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.



Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Summerhill, Co. Meath
Due to essential infrastructure works, our Summerhill transmitter may be subject to interruptions between 10:00 & 18:00 on 26th June.
This work will affect the LW252 radio service from this transmitter.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work


Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Maghera, Co. Clare
Due to essential engineering works, our Maghera transmitter will be subject to a short interruption between 09:30 & 12:30 on 27th June.
This work will affect SaorView services from this transmitter.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.


Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Three Rock, Co. Dublin
Due to essential infrastructure works, our Three Rock transmitter may be off the air for up to 1 hour from 15:00 on 27th June.
This work will affect FM Radio services from this transmitter.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.

Antenna

current notices

Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Timoleague, Co. Cork
Due to essential engineering works, our Timoleague transmitter may be subject to interruption and be off the air for 1 hour from 11:30 on July 3rd.
This work will affect SaorView services from this transmitter.

Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Kippure, Co. Wicklow
Due to essential infrastructure works, our Kippure transmitter may be on reduced power for up to 9 hours from 09:30 on 3rd & 4th July.
This work will affect SaorView and FM radio services from this transmitter.

RTÉNL - Maghera, Co. Clare
Due to essential infrastructure works, our Maghera transmitter may be on reduced power for periods between 09:05 and 18:00 on 4th July.
This work will affect SaorView and FM radio services from this transmitter.

Antenna

current notices:

Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Three Rock, Co. Dublin

Due to essential maintenance there will be power reductions at Three Rock on Monday 15th July.
These power reductions will affect all FM radio services from this transmission site.
RTÉNL would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused by this ESB outage



Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Woodcock Hill, Co. Clare

Due to essential maintenance works, our Woodcock Hill transmissions will be on reduced power on 16th July between 9:30am & 12:30pm.
These essential work will affect all FM and DAB radio services.
RTENL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.



Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Mullaghanish, Co. Cork

Due to essential maintenance works, our Mullaghanish transmissions will be on reduced power from 2pm to 7pm on Tuesday 16th July.
This work will affect all FM radio services from this transmitter site.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.



Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Spur Hill, Co. Cork

Due to essential maintenance, our Spur Hill transmitter will be off air between 1am and 3am on Thursday 18th July.
These works will affect Saorview, DAB and FM Radio services.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work

fryup

have FTA with the triax box

last night the BBC HD channels kept breaking up, does this happen often? is it weather related...high pressure and all that??

Peter Rhea

I don't know if Ku band satellite signals are affected by temperature inversions. Certainly not by the same mechanism as terrestrial signals i.e. distant co-channel signals travelling longer distances than usual, causing interference.

zg3409

fryup wrote: »

have FTA with the triax box

last night the BBC HD channels kept breaking up, does this happen often? is it weather related...high pressure and all that??

If you are receiving BBC via your aerial then it is probably the high pressure. Dependong on where you live and the distance between you and the transmitter this could happen regularly during good weather.

fryup

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no i'm recieving it through FTA satellite

zg3409

The breakup on satellite is probably your dish slightly out of alignment. If it is OK now I would leave well alone.

fryup

is the skew of the LNB critical ? for signal strength

zg3409

Skew is not critical, but if a certain channel is just on the border it could have the effect of breaking up. Certain channels are weaker than others, and these should be tested once a dish is set up.

Mr. Rabbit

Currently a blank screen on TV3 and 3E from Clermont Cairn. Signal strength still 100%.

Is this a nationwide problem or just CC ?

All other Saorview channels unnafected.

DeepBlue

Mr. Rabbit wrote: »

Currently a blank screen on TV3 and 3E from Clermont Cairn. Signal strength still 100%.

Is this a nationwide problem or just CC ?

All other Saorview channels unnafected.

Nationwide I reckon. It's back now.

Mr. Rabbit

DeepBlue wrote: »

Nationwide I reckon. It's back now.

Yep, back at this end as well.

I had similar problems with the Mux. that carried UTV on Freeview (Channel 21) a couple of days ago. 100% signal but a message saying no signal being received.

I gather there was some sort of software update and it only affected certain boxes (a Sony PVR in this case). A manual retune solved the problem.

Not sure if the two were connected.

connolly72

ok first time on here lol hi all im in d 17 can u pick up freeview on a Aerial

thomasking22008

Sunday game Galway vs Clare rte 2 HD have slight break up signal area near atherney aerial point is maghrea

Peter Rhea

Probably lightning or something else random.