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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter._______
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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Dave W11:50 PM
Braintree
Just to confirm/clarify, stations like Yesterday & Film4 are being transmitted on C56 (754.0MHz)? I'm getting no signal on C56 at all.
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 21 July 2011
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jb387:58 AM
Dave W: Information suggests that ArqB is remaining on Ch50 until later on this year, this being the Mux that transmits the programmes you have mentioned.
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Dale
12:05 PM
Ipswich
12:05 PM
Ipswich
I see that Mux C /ARQA (CH54) is still showing as 16QAM / 2K mode on this site : it actually switched to 64QAM / 8K mode yesterday (thus seeming to lose power, as did ARQB on CH50).
4 of the 5 SD MUXes are now on this : SDN (CH49) being the exception on 64QAM / 2K mode.
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Dale's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Dale: I have corrected the code to show that now. This is a very non-standard switchover.
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jb381:16 PM
Briantist: No problem! as at least you did have the correct information shown in the "Note" section underneath the transmission frequencies, it was Digital UK's trade predictor I thought a bit off, as it was showing the reception possibilities for a channel number that wasn't actually operational which was totally misleading, although I see that's been updated now as well.
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Tim
2:16 PM
Walton On The Naze
2:16 PM
Walton On The Naze
Dave W: Just to add to jb38's reply - ArqB is due to switch to Ch63 on 16th November 2011, with a power increase to 2.2kW which may help you.
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darren3:43 PM
Manningtree
why are some multiplexes still on low power even though switchover has happened on the sudbury transmitter?
some channels still break up
the ones at maximum are perfect
there are still low power multiplexes
i was under the impression all would be high after switchover
any info would be useful
darren
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Dale
7:45 PM
Ipswich
7:45 PM
Ipswich
Darren : you obviously believed the 'hype' in the local and national press.
3 of the 5 MUXes will remain on low power until June 2012.
I sent a long letter on this subject to Ipswich Evening Star 3-4 weeks ago, to try to alert people like yourself to the true situation, but they refused to publish it because it contradicted Peter Monteith of Digital UK, who had given them the 'official' (and inaccurate) line.
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Dale
7:49 PM
Ipswich
7:49 PM
Ipswich
Brian : thanks. It is typical that a 'non-standard switchover' would apply to us here in Suffolk et al : I assume the powers that be think we 'country bumpkins' haven't yet got electricity, let alone television ...
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