Course Objectives:
This course is for those who want to work as a Digital Aerial or Satellite TV installer, this course also enables existing aerial installers to know more about the practical aspects of broadcast and reception due to the analogue switch over to Digital Terrestrial Television Saorview.

By the end of this course learners will have obtained the skills via classroom theory, practical demonstrations and practice. To complete domestic Digital Terrestrial Television Aerial Installations (DTT referred to by RTE as Saorview). and Satellite TV Installation With the opportunity to earn City & Guilds Certificate.

This City & Guilds certificate is the only internationally recognised certificate provided by ANY educational awarding body, aligned with the National Framework of Qualifications in Ireland.
Being the No 1 leading training provider in Ireland teaching this subject, We are the ONLY training provider offering recognised certification from an educational awarding body

Course Content:

• Health & Safety
• Ladder Safety, PPE, Use of Harness. Working at Heights)
• Best installation practice and BskyB Installations
• Surveying & Testing Sites (Locations, for signal types & measurement)
• Fixing aerials using lashing kits, wall brackets
• Fixing dishes to walls using brackets and ground stands
• Acquiring the satellites using signal measuring equipment.
• Cables Routing and fixing.
• Competent Use of cable stripping tools, making off connectors. Waterproofing, Cable Routes & clipping, Phone connection types, Routing and fixing.
• Receiver Connection:
• Receiver Installation (Can mean a TV, radio or set top receiver for PVRs, recordable DVDs and computers.) Interconnection to ancillary equipment, including via SCART, HDMI, Component.
• Digital Broadcasting
• MPG compression basics, DTT broadcasting & signal parameters such as SNR/CNR & BER for Saorview. Receiving Satellite Transmissions.
• Digital Signal Reception Measurement
• Recommended levels, impulse interference ,Types of meter and terminology, Signal types, Record Measuring signal levels from terrestrial and satellite antennas. C/N, SNR, BER & MER. Rain Degradation. Satellite Bit Error Ratio.
• Antenna Selection.
• Review of types aerial Benchmarking for digital reception (performance comparisons). Antenna’s best suited for digital reception.
• Satellite dish receiving concepts.
• Types of Dish handling and assembly Dish size. Dish Location. Feedhorns and LNB's
• Types of Feedhorn. Voltage switching LNB. Principles of Block Downconverters. Local Oscillator Frequencies. The Universal LNB. LNB Gain and Noise Figure. Skew Adjustment
• Satellite Locations
• satellites over the equator tracking the Geostationary Arc orbital positions, Multi LNB Installations, Footprint concept, Surveying and Testing Sites, Satellite locations line of site, Aesthetic and planning considerations.

We have requested a guest speaker from the RTE Soarview team to provide a presentation to our learners. With much appreciation they have agreed subject to availabilaty on course dates.

Who is this Course designed for:

This course is for those who want to be able to install satellite and aerials systems correctly and gain a credible recognised qualification. Our training requires you complete installation work for real. We make you climb up ladders. Build antennas for digital Soarview reception, Install satellite systems and acquire the best quality signals so that they work. You are assessed on your ability to do the job "not" how well you can calculate complex math, or remember the science or complex multiplex and compression theory. That is not much use when your fixing an aerial in the real world.

We know for certain that you can not install Aerial and satellite TV systems after sitting in a hotel classroom somewhere for five days? You have to get outside, and in as real a situation as can be, actually experience the work.

We are the "ONLY" TRAINING PROVIDER prepared to do the hard work to ensure you learn what you really need. The only provider that takes its learners to install real aerials and real satellite equipment in real houses as part of this training. So you gain as real an experience as you can provide you with at the time you train. Below you see the photographs of a number of learners up on a roof practicing the work activity associated with installing a chimney lashing kit for affixing an aerial.

By holding a City & Guilds qualification and being able to say you have been trained by broadbandcareers. You are proving to future employers and companies that you are able to do the work, because to earn this qualification you have to prove you are capable.

Learner pre-requisites:

Generally being physically fit, not having any fear of working at heights and being content to work outdoors is all that is needed.

Course Duration:

This is a unique opportunity to complete this Intensive course in just 5 Days. Monday Through to Friday. This course is scheduled Subject to demand. See expected schedule of dates below.

Location:

This course is planned to be delivered inDublin for theory and other locations at houses for the practical activity. However If the number of learners who want to take a course justify it. We can provide this course at any location in Ireland. Directions and maps are provided with course joining instructions.

Certificate and Grading

You will be earn the City & Guilds 2218 Level 2 Certificate in Digital Television Aerial Installation. And the Broadbandcareers Satellite System Installation Technicians Certificate.

Interested in attending this course?

We are currently collecting the details from people who are interested in attending this course. All course applications that are in high demand will be dealt with on a first come, first served basis. To register interest please fill in the form below, and one of our learner advisors will contact you shortly. Please note these dates could be subject to change at short notice so please check the course calendar frequently.

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