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The symbol shows the location of the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter which serves 440,000 homes. 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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) mast?

Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Sudbury transmitter broadcast?

If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.

Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C44 (658.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
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1 BBC One (SD) East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C41 (634.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
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3 ITV 1 (SD) (Anglia (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Anglia east), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C47 (682.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H max
C29 (538.0MHz)186mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H max
C31- (553.8MHz)228mDTG-8100,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H max
C37 (602.0MHz)228mDTG-8100,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Sudbury (Suffolk, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sudbury transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 77km north-northeast (24°)
to BBC East region - 27 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
regional news image
ITV Anglia News 0.8m homes 3.2%
from NORWICH NR1 3JG, 78km north-northeast (24°)
to ITV Anglia (East) region - 26 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (West)

Are there any self-help relays?

Felixstowe WestTransposer1000 homes +1000 or more homes due to expansion of affected area?
WithamTransposer14 km NE Chelmsford.118 homes

How will the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-131 Aug 2018
B E TB E TB E TE TK T
C29SDN
C31ArqA
C35C5wavesC5waves
C37ArqB
C41ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C44BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C47C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCB
C51tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C56tv_offArqB
C58tv_offSDN
C60tv_off-ArqA

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 6 Jul 11 and 20 Jul 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 250kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-4dB) 100kW
Analogue 5(-7dB) 50kW
Mux 2*(-14.9dB) 8.1kW
Mux B*(-15.2dB) 7.5kW
Mux 1*(-15.5dB) 7kW
Mux A*(-17dB) 5kW
Mux C*(-22.2dB) 1.5kW
Mux D*(-23.6dB) 1.1kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sudbury transmitter area

Oct 1959-Feb 2004Anglia Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Sudbury was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Briantist
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8:34 AM

Nick: I think you will find that the analogue picture is exactly the same, but you don't have the blurring that a CRT would provide.

You have not said if you are using a SCART or HMDI to connect your Sky box to the TV.

No, Sky do not "deliberately blur" their pictures. In fact, Sky do not have any hand in the encoding of any channels other than their own branded ones.

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9:38 AM

It is scart, Brian. Yet another mystery it seems. I have a couple of dishes on other sats, foreign. I will manually tune my Sky box to a foreign station and see if that is the same. If you are saying that freesat is likely to be the same as Sky, via scart, then better stick with the limited chaannels on freeview.

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Briantist
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11:59 AM

Nick: Freesat and Sky use the same transmission on the same satellites.

Almost all Freesat boxes have HDMI connections.

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Friday, 3 June 2011
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12:12 AM

Thanks Brian. I realize they use the same satellite, so that definitely means they have the same picture quality on standard definition?
Is hdmi better than scart, which I thought was meant to be the bees knees?
Kind regards.

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Briantist
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8:40 AM

Nick: Yes to the picture quality.

HDMI is perfect digital transfer of the decoded information, SCART is analogue and thus imperfect.

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10:29 AM

Ah, thank you.
Brian, I really must admit I am struggling to feel at home with this flat tv. I just cannot get the colours right, however I play with the picture settings. The white is too stark, like looking at a naked fluorescent tube, there is no hint of any other colour in it. A bright sky is just dazzling white, however low I set the controls, which of course makes everything else wan. I can give a blue hue to things, or a red one, but there is no way to put a bit of yellow into faces, they have to be red, pink, or white!
Is this within your remit?! Toshiba 32BV700

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Sunday, 5 June 2011
Briantist
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4:47 PM

Nick: I would just ensure that everything is set to "default" on the TV and you have "sharpening" off. Check you are using the RGB setting if you are using a SCART connection.

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11:06 PM

Sorry Brian, what is that setting, what does it mean and where do I find it? Many thanks.

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Monday, 6 June 2011
Briantist
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9:28 PM

Nick: I was referring to the controls for the TV set. You will have to consult the manual.

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Tuesday, 7 June 2011
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9:36 AM

I know that, Brian, but there is nothing on the menu or in the manual called RGB. What does it mean?
All I know is that Sky gave me a lovely picture via Scart on my good old crt tv, whereas on this flat thing it is fuzzy and downright awful, in fact I think it is marginally better when I use the analogue setting and tune in Sky to an old tv channel.
The flat screens really don't seem all they are cracked up to be. When I bought it, I specifically asked if I could get round its lousy sound by connecting my old amp to some phono sockets. It has 7 phono sockets, none of which are 'audio out,' and none of which powers my amp. All I can do is use the headphone jack, sound turned down on 'headphone' and connect it to phono on the amp, but the sound is fuzzy and over basey, lacking treble. There is a single output phono socket on the tv marked 'coaxial digital audio output,' but that does not look right either as I cannot see how a single phono socket can be connected to the amp and provide stereo.
Many thanks.

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