Saorview on the Spur Hill (Republic of Ireland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Spur Hill (Republic of Ireland) transmitter. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Spur Hill (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
DTG-1003 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Saorview channels does the Spur Hill transmitter broadcast?
If you have any kind of Saorview fault, follow this Saorview reset procedure first.Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| SV1 | H max | C45 (666.0MHz) | 187m | DTG-1003 | 50,000W |
 3 Virgin Media 1, 4 TG4 (RoI), 21 RTÉ News Now, 22 Tithe an Oireachtais , | |||||
| SV2 | H max | C39 (618.0MHz) | 187m | DTG-1003 | 50,000W |
 1 RTÉ One HD, 5 Virgin Media 2 , 6 Virgin Media 3, 7 RTÉ jr, 11 RTÉ One +1, 12 RTÉ2+1, 27 Saorview Information (*, | |||||
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
How will the Spur Hill (Republic of Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 1 Sep 2019 | |||||
| A B C/D E K T VHF | A B C/D E K T VHF | A B C/D E K T VHF | B E T | B E K T | |||||
| C39 | SV2 | ||||||||
| C45 | SV1 | SV1 | |||||||
| C49tv_off | SV2 |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 1 Jan 12 and 1 Jan 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| SV1≡, SV2≡ | 50kW |
Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldFriday, 2 March 2012
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jol12:12 PM
Hi.Can anyone tell me if UK digital boxes wil work in Republic of Ireland to recieve Saorview.Also can satelite dishes recieve the Saorview broadcasts.Thanks.
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
jol: No, only Freeview HD boxes work as the required MPEG4 decoder is not in standard UK boxes. The only exception to this are the BT Vision boxes.
UK and Saorview satellites are incompatible due to the different orbital location.
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