Full Freeview on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter
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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 
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
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 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.
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?
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
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 West | Transposer | 1000 homes +1000 or more homes due to expansion of affected area? | |
| Witham | Transposer | 14 km NE Chelmsford. | 118 homes |
How will the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 1 Aug 2018 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | K T | |||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C56tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C58tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| 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
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011
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FP-Ippy6:46 PM
Totally unimpressed with the switchover - before the evolution commenced we had over 128 channels available. Today - final switchover day, a pathetic 83!
It's probably good if you want shopping channels, Adult channels etc; but channels that interest this house* - seemingly no provision, no luck.
* Typically Dave, Quest.
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Elliot 7:21 PM
Hockley
Before the switch-over happened i could receive all freeview channels without any problems after the 6th I could no longer channels such as 4 and 5 pick tv usually broke up I could also no longer receive film 4 viva 4 music and some radio stations, the signal was generally poor on most channels accept for bbc and a few others during the day however channels such as pick tv at night the signal strength would be 5-10% but signal quality would be 95% however i think it maybe down to my dvr not working properly as my Panasonic tv didn't have as many problems with signal but it was still very weak and channels such as 4 music and viva film 4 were not working they have signal but no signal quality. last night 4music viva film 4 were all working and the signal was in green so around 60% on my dvr the signal was weaker, this morning i retuned i can now get all HD channels, itv, channel 4, bbc, however i am now missing everything else such as dave 5* mux D mux C the I believe channel 49 had 10 to 20 % signal quality but no strength ? used to be able to get 71 tv channels but now when rescanning i can only get 22, i don't think its my aerial as its a 91 element wide band and it used to work fine (its mounted out-side my house) the signal is also split 3 ways but is fed through an amplifier. Any ideas? I'm losing the will to live
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Dale
8:19 PM
Ipswich
8:19 PM
Ipswich
Still getting all channels here (IP2) after switchover, but CH50 and CH54 Muxes have increased signal strength but MUCH reduced signal quality (down from 100% to 60% on my Panasonic PVR) which I assume, again, is because they are now in 64QAM mode which effectively reduces the power. Both still at very low power until June 2012 of course. Oddly, both show as 100% on my LG TV!
As an aside, I sent a long letter to the local paper here (Ipswich Evening Star) a few weeks ago, warning that DSO2 did NOT put everything onto full power (despite what Digital UK had published in said journal), and they refused to publish it because it contradicted the official mis-information. I'm thinking of hacking the editor's phone to teach him a lesson ....
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Tom Delaney8:20 PM
Before the switch over on the 20th I had all channels, I now have interference on channels:
3,4,5 & 6. I have Auto tuned the T.V several times but only seems to start on channels 6 upwards. T.V had built in free-view.
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Tom Delaney8:24 PM
Sudbury
Before the switch over on the 20th I had all channels, I now have interference on channels:
3,4,5 & 6. I have Auto tuned the T.V several times but only seems to start on channels 6 upwards. T.V had built in free-view.
postcode co10 0lu
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Tom's: ...
If you are in the sudbury/cornard area please feel free to call me (312822) for advise I am a aerial engineer living in cornard
Alpha Aerials
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Tim
9:33 PM
Walton On The Naze
9:33 PM
Walton On The Naze
Good result after switchover here. Receiving 102 (TV & radio) channels via the wideband chimney aerial, and an impressive 58 on the Yagi loft aerial. Signal strength 60-80% average.
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john cook9:53 PM
I have a sony set top box, VTX-D800U
Now we have gone through full DSO, It will
only receive channel 49 / mux 4
and nothing else.
Have done a full factory reset and re-scan.
Various forums suggest this is 8k compatible,
but is this the problem that it's not?
advice needed please
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Alan Matthews10:53 PM
Chelmsford
After 20th July I have lost many channels but thought that the power increase would enable me to receive the feeble ones like ITV4. This used to be broken up but now it has totally gone. The chart indicates that many of the channels I once had are if anything at less power.
Is it planned to raise the power of these channels later or do I have to go for freesat please.
I have a fairly new wide band antenna and live in Little Baddow CM3.
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Will11:34 PM
Alan Matthews: The power was only increased to the PSB muxes (which carry the main BBC channels and ITV1 etc.). There has been an effective power drop on the COM muxes which have changed transmission mode.
To cut a long story short; muxes ArqA, ArqB and SDN do not increase to full power until 27th June 2012. This includes ITV4 which is on ArqB along with many of the commercial channels. Unfortunately, if you cannot receive them today, you may not be able to receive these channels until next year.
Could you provide a full postcode so your predicted coverage can be checked?
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