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<blockquote data-quote="Fisty McB" data-source="post: 1091748" data-attributes="member: 389824"><p>Saorview coverage in the east & midlands of the Republic doesn't tend to suffer from a lot of issues concerning terrain, except where co-channel interference is a factor, which is the reason why a small TX at Drogheda was brought into service. Go further out west where the terrain is much more challenging and you can find numerous reception black spots. Nevertheless 2RN reckon that Saorview covers approx 99% of the population in the state (better than the Freeview PSB muxes in Northern Ireland, which is estimated at 98.5%) with Saorsat intended for these final 1%ers, as well as unofficially covering the parts of Northern Ireland out of reach from either Saorview or the NI Freeview multiplex network (e.g. much of the Co. Antrim coastline) which is reckoned to be around 7% of households. However, in these places it seems that most such affected viewers simply subscribe to Sky to receive Irish & UK transmissions rather than go down a route that involves Saorsat.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That would seem logical, but the problem then would be every Tom, Dick & Harry looking to get RTE to purchase them a basic subscription! The only way that might work would be to take a leaf out of the Australian book for their VAST service whereby the full commercial service is restricted to viewers whom cannot get any terrestrial reception at all, confirmed as such by an authorised aerial installer, writing to VAST to sanction a satellite installation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fisty McB, post: 1091748, member: 389824"] Saorview coverage in the east & midlands of the Republic doesn't tend to suffer from a lot of issues concerning terrain, except where co-channel interference is a factor, which is the reason why a small TX at Drogheda was brought into service. Go further out west where the terrain is much more challenging and you can find numerous reception black spots. Nevertheless 2RN reckon that Saorview covers approx 99% of the population in the state (better than the Freeview PSB muxes in Northern Ireland, which is estimated at 98.5%) with Saorsat intended for these final 1%ers, as well as unofficially covering the parts of Northern Ireland out of reach from either Saorview or the NI Freeview multiplex network (e.g. much of the Co. Antrim coastline) which is reckoned to be around 7% of households. However, in these places it seems that most such affected viewers simply subscribe to Sky to receive Irish & UK transmissions rather than go down a route that involves Saorsat. That would seem logical, but the problem then would be every Tom, Dick & Harry looking to get RTE to purchase them a basic subscription! The only way that might work would be to take a leaf out of the Australian book for their VAST service whereby the full commercial service is restricted to viewers whom cannot get any terrestrial reception at all, confirmed as such by an authorised aerial installer, writing to VAST to sanction a satellite installation. [/QUOTE]
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