Removal of Tullamore MW mast.

poolboy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120898007#Comment_120898007

No joke, they had done it a couple of nights before too. Presumably same guys.

PatrickHam

Might be tomorrow lot of activity today summerhill

Mickey Mike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120899765#Comment_120899765

Keep us informed on the goings-on. And when Summerhill is down they might attack the MW one in Cork.

jackeen84

🤫shhhh

kazoo106

She's gone

ford fiesta

summerhill gone?

ford fiesta

https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2023/07/27/video-going-going-gone-old-atlantic-252-mast-in-moynalvey-comes-down/

marno21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120903410#Comment_120903410

That’s one way of ending any potential political debate for sure!

Antenna

Absolutely.

Whilst still standing it was of course not beyond possibility it could be brought into service again, on either LW or a frequency at the low end of MW where it would have performed well. But this is finality.

And notable day for the many across Ireland, UK and beyond who listened to Atlantic 252

What were the tallest and the second tallest structures in ROI both felled within the same week ! Mullaghanish mast on the Cork-Kerry border now has taken over the status of the tallest structure in Republic of Ireland (though not the island of Ireland, Northern Ireland has the tallest - Strabane mast is at 305m high)

ford fiesta

Are the buildings surrounding both Tullamore and Summerhill masts remaining ? Are there any historic contents or memorabelia in them ?

Glaceon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120903606#Comment_120903606

I don't think so. Tullamore was stripped a long time ago and any Atlantic 252 related stuff that was in Summerhill was binned.

Mickey Mike

Any videos of the fall, the one above is not available, it was some week for wrecking transmission masts.

I'd imagine Cork's AM TX is next at some point.

Glaceon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904233#Comment_120904233

Hidden behind a Facebook login wall.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=pfbid0Nojgr2oDc3huG9YGPC4YuN3jfXAsDaAdor1teJWeEBc1GVbMJ6p99oBSuwb9xn5ol&id=100068624629959

Antenna

At the closure of the LW transmission of RTE Radio 1 a few months ago, RTE said there were no plans to demolish the Clarkestown mast.

However that statement may have been a 'stage managing' of what has happened.

If they had stated that they planned to demolish the mast in a few months time during the summer, some people may have tried to whip up a campaign in opposition (Such as campaigner on the issue Enda O'Kane )

Whilst Clarkestown mast still stood, the possibility was of course still there of reintroducing a service on LW (or alternatively on the unused Irish national MW channels 567 or 612) but it is most definitely gone now

Hotblack Desiato

"health hazards", feckin' throbbers.

Antenna

Unlike with Tullamore on Tuesday, there was no mention of today's demolition job on RTE TV's Six-One news this evening

Mickey Mike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904811#Comment_120904811

What people don't see and what people don't hear, the Heart won't feel, and that's the very reason why its done this way, very sneaky I have to say, at least it should be a news item and let people know and then put it all to rest.

PatrickHam

The demolition was kept quite simply because they closed it because they said no money!! Not true

They said they would not decommision the site!! Not true

I would not believe anything they say .

Even with it with being an older technology, does it make any sense paying some stars in RTE more than it costs to run this 252 service.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120905190#Comment_120905190

" does it make any sense paying some stars in RTE more than it costs to run this 252 service"

Yes. Many, many, many specific presenters bring more audience to the station than 252 did. But I don't think any individual was actually paid more than the combined cost of maintenance and power for 252 anyway.

RTE are not there to keep nostalgic things for anoraks like old towers and old services.

Even if there was an established basis for RTÉ being responsible for diaspora audiences, with appropriate state funding for that (as it would not have any licence or commercial income), it would not justify 252. It would make more sense to be on SiriusXM in the US and DAB+ in the UK; and look at something for Australia to actual serve the diaspora rather than throw huge amounts of power in to the air to serve a mostly fictional UK audience of technophobic pensioners.

PatrickHam

RTE is the way it is because we don't question them more . People at the top become too comfortable , we pay more and get less. This is the irish way.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120905215#Comment_120905215

If RTÉ were questioned more, 252 would have closed ten years ago.

PatrickHam

250,000 a year , increasing this year as the said might be 400,000 a year. Would you believe them?

PatrickHam

Why turn off DAB when it's much more cost effective than FM.

10-10-20

I was just up on Three Rock and I can add that some modifications have taken place there too as many of the microwave repeater dishes have recently been removed off one of the masts. They used to point roughly NW, so possibly towards Summerhill.

PatrickHam

That's Denis obriens tower , the RTE tower is the stayed tower

10-10-20

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120905545#Comment_120905545

Oh right, did not know that! Coincidence then that he's doing a clear-out!

L1011

Also, any link to Summerhill would have been a single dish, not 14+

The Rocksolid mast is used by tens of customers, for radio and other data. Likely just did an audit of what was live and dropped what wasn't paying.

10-10-20

OT, but there's a new or replacement mast just down from DOB's mast there now on a fresh concrete base. Large traffo beside it humming away. No antennas or dishes on it yet.

PatrickHam

I think the previous tower fell . And they put up that tower. Empty yes last time I passed too .

Hotblack Desiato

RTE are not there to keep nostalgic things for anoraks like old towers and old services.

Nooooo!

Bring back 405!

😁