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Regular retuning for RTE1

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  • 08-05-2023 9:36am
    #1
    whoami1
    Registered Users Posts: 306 ✭✭


    I have an internal aerial mounted in the attic and have for the past few days had to retune my ZGemma H7 every day so that I can receive RTE1. Thankfully it's a quick process because I'm only doing a DVB-T rescan and not touching the satellite, but it's all a bit confusing. I have a good reception from Kippure here in North Kildare.

    Can anyone advise me on what's going on? Is there a way to have alternate frequencies for RTE1 available as a backup? I noted that the reception figures shown for the station can vary with each retune - I noted these down on Friday evening and Saturday but I can't find the page.



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    whoami1
    Registered Users Posts: 306 ✭✭whoami1


    An update to this. I'm running OpenVix on my ZGemma and the EPG shows me the frequency of each channel when I move to it. Yesterday evening (Thursday 11th) at 21:00, I put on RTE1 to watch the news and was met with a black screen. The frequency was showing as

    Ch. 33 570.0 MHz 8 MHz 8564-1002

    I retuned it to a perfect picture and sound and the new numbers were

    Ch. 35 586.0 MHz 8 MHz 8564-1002

    This morning (Friday 12th) about 11:15 I turned on the TV again for a few minutes and the picture on RTE1 was badly corrupted. I checked the numbers again and it had gone back to the Ch. 33/570.0 MHz settings on its own. I retuned and all was well again at Ch. 35/586.0 MHz.

    So the system reverted to a 'bad' frequency setting at some point within just over 14 hours. I'll check again this evening.

    Any thoughts?



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    JDxtra
    Registered Users Posts: 5,912 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    In the tuner setup, configure it to Kippure only. I had similar issue where I was pointing antenna at Kippure, but the box kept flipping over to Three Rock (which was usually weaker). No issues since the change.


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    whoami1
    Registered Users Posts: 306 ✭✭whoami1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120587910#Comment_120587910

    Thanks for that, mine's the same. But it did lead me to check other menu items and I spotted that AutoBouquetsMaker was looking to Three Rock instead of Kippure. Perhaps that is causing the frequency to jump to there every day or couple of days. I have changed that configuration now to also look to Kippure.

    We'll see what the next few days bring.



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    #5
    whoami1
    Registered Users Posts: 306 ✭✭whoami1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120605388#Comment_120605388

    Two weeks later and everything has been absolutely fine. No further problems with RTE1 at all. Problem solved.



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