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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Thursday, 21 July 2011
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Jim7:51 PM
I receive signal from the Sudbury Transmitter, Why do I have to re tune in November ? Also will the MUX for A, COM5 & COM6 increase ? Currently showing 'VERY LOW' on your charts and consequently signal/reception quality not consistent.
I live in Felixstowe.
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Dale
8:05 PM
Ipswich
8:05 PM
Ipswich
jb38 : you may be interested in what has happened with my dad's Freeview 'gadget' after DSO Part 2 (at IP2 0QH) :
It now gets the 3 low power MUXes at strength < 50% and quality between 50 and 75% ; BBCA remains at 99% strength but <50% quality; but D3+4 on CH41 is totally absent! He told me this on the phone, but I didn't believe him so went round to check. It shows as 0% strength and quality BUT the 'meter' flickers all the time it is on that channel which makes me think it IS finding something. He therefore has no ITV/C4/C5 etc on the 'gadget'. His Freeview on DTV ; PVR and standard 'box' have all re-tuned happily and found all MUXes including D3+4, which is at full strength and quality.
I can only think, as per my original suspicion, that the signal is now too 'loud' for the gadget.
I am about to go away on holiday but will try some alterations to what he's got when I get back.
Everything at my place is working fine.
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Dale's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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r green9:45 PM
Ipswich
Transmitter engineering: I did an "initial scan" deleted all channels. Good signal but how do i get HD. No sign of it mentioned on using guide (epg), or listed as addition channel.
Tried bbc1,2,itv1 and others. Pressing "I" on some channels says hd is available.
tv is a panasonic TX-L32S20BA (full HD 1920 * 1080) Area Ip5 (Kesgrave), trasmitter Dudbury.
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r's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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steve williams10:00 PM
Colchester
Frating / Weeley, no Film 4 / VIVA / Yesterday etc, good job we have Sky, not a good advert for Freeview really!
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Friday, 22 July 2011
steve williams: This is exactly as expected, as above you will not have the ArqB multiplex until 16th November 11.
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Dale: I've seen this Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice problem so many times, and it almost always caused by having an amplifier in the system.
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Jim: The signals for SDN, ArqA and ArqB cannot be taken to full power until the final frequencies C56, C58 and C60- for the transmitter are taken out of use at the Tacolneston transmitter, where they are used at the moment.
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Dale: The "non standard switchovers" tend to happen in certain international border coastal areas generally, but in this cause the non-PSB channel allocations being in use on the Tacolneston transmitter.
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