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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
Channel icons
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
Saturday, 16 July 2011
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jb38
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

9:35 PM

Dale: Thanks for the update, judging by what you report its obvious that local variables exist to what the actual post code predicts, Ch49 being the best example of this.

What you find after the 20th will be interesting, as after then only MuxC (Ch54) & MuxD (Ch50) are indicated as being variable, although on September 11th MuxD changes over to good reception, with MuxC staying as being variable until 27th June 2012 when it also joins the category of "good", that is as well as changing to Ch60.

Ch49 on this same date changing to Ch58 8k operation, reception jumping to 100%.

Pity about the TV having a single scale indication, this not really being any use except for crude indications of what is happening. Regarding the scart gadget, I only asked as I wondered if it was one of the originals as there are a few types about nowadays.

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Monday, 18 July 2011
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Snail
4:39 PM

I am receiving all channels from the Sudbury Transmitter but NOT ITV 1 Anyone know why not

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Dale
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

7:26 PM
Ipswich

Snail : are you sure you're still getting C4 and C5? They are all on the same very low power Mux (with others) until Weds morning, and loads of people are not getting them at the moment. If it really IS only ITV1, then that's very odd.

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Dave Mills
8:10 PM
Ipswich

Ive never had any problems before getting c4 and the other channels on that mux but for some reason today its off and on like a yoyo does anyone have any answers?? postcode IP77RA

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Tuesday, 19 July 2011
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Eddie Stacey
8:02 PM
Ipswich

Thanks for your extremely helpful website information and contributors' questions and answers. It has certainly been far more useful than digitaluk and that annoying robot!

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Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

10:49 PM

Eddie Stacey: Thanks for your complements. There are no robots here!

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Wednesday, 20 July 2011
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Ian
10:02 AM
Clacton-on-sea

Hi Everyone,

Just checked the Digital UK website for my postcode (we live in Clacton), amazingly they predict that my reception will get better on 16 November this year, then gradually worsen until 2012 when only 10 channels will be 'good'

This seems ludicrous, I've retuned this morning and all seems good signal strength wise from Sudbury and Clacton transmitters, except for the Film Four mux (50), we already use a booster and at least ITV is now coming in strong, but it seems rubbish that according to Digital UK by 2012 the channels that are 'variable' increase to 59 from 45 today.

I thought switchover was supposed to make things better not worse ?

Sorry for the rant, and thanks for this great website, very useful.

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Dave
12:45 PM

Hi,
I live in the SS0 post code area before DSO today I had a decent signal across the board using a high gain wideband Ariel pointing at the Sudbury transmitter. However, since retuning this morning the signal on channel 50 is very flaky al the the others are fine, is there any reason for this?
Thank you in advance

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Mrs. C. Richardson
2:15 PM
Ipswich

Postcode IP4 2LR
My digital aerial is on our roof. Before switchover I could get more freeview channels than I can now. Now all it does it break up and some previous channels I now cannot get.
Is the signal likely to get any better.
My neighbours freeview is the same!

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