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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Friday, 22 July 2011
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Rover12:54 PM
I have all chanels except the HD services. How do I get them?
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Rover: You need a Freeview HD (DVB-T2) television set, or a Freeview HD box attached to a HDTV.
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Dale
1:33 PM
Ipswich
1:33 PM
Ipswich
jb38 and Brian : have sorted out my dad's problem by putting an old splitter into the circuit, in his bedroom, which led to the offending device. MUX D3+4 (CH41) has magically appeared with strength 99% though quality is only 50%ish. The BBCA MUX (CH44) has now gone to 88% quality from <50%. This clearly shows that the signal was too strong for that particular device (though he has no problems on his other 4 Freeview TVs/boxes).
The only downside is that ARQA MUX on CH54 has now 'fallen off the cliff' at 35% quality, and is unwatchable. He assures me that he "doesn't watch any of those rubbish channels anyway : does anyone?" and he can therefore live with that until next June! Oddly, ARQB MUX on CH50, which is supposedly on even lower power than ARQA, is still OK at 50%+ quality.
Thanks for all the help and suggestions.
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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 am really pleased to hear that you have managed sort that out.
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Richard2:02 PM
Hockley
Just seen Elliot's comment and our problems seem similar. Could it be the proximity of the Rouncefall transmitter? Or are we over amplifying the signal?
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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darren3:53 PM
shame about the low power multiplexes.
bbc and itv ok and on full.
can get the crappy shopping channels but not some of the ones i actually want like Dave.
the crappy channels should be on the real low power, allowing propper channels priority
well thats how is should be
guess its about greed and making money as usual.
Darren
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SouthEssex4:21 PM
Benfleet
I live in SE Essex and when I had a single high gain aerial installed for digital it was pointed at Bluebell Hill. If a bomb went off in Essex I would not know about it as SE TV is only interested in Kent and Sussex.
When Sudbury switched this week I suddenly found that I was receiving BBC East from the back of the aerial on both my TV and my hard disc recorder. My tv then asked me to retune following which I lost BBC East and got BBC South East back again.
My recorder shows two channels Kent and Sudbury and I can move from BBC Se and BBC E.
Since the BBC reception for my area is between Bluebell Hill, London and Sudbury can it be standardised on Sudbury so that we who live in Essex can actually get local news.
If I get my aerial turned round to Sudbury will it be reliable?
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SouthEssex's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jim9:49 PM
Thanks for your reply Brian. I live in Felixstowe receiving signal from Sudbury. Presumably we have to retune again in November to get a full power signal on SDN,Arq A & Arq B. If so, this is not mentioned in your ' Digital Switchover Process' section above. Please clarify.
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Saturday, 23 July 2011
Heinz
3:57 PM
3:57 PM
The 3 COM multiplxes (SDN, ArqA & ArqB) at Sudbury, currently on UHF channels 49+, 54 and 50+, will not go to full (100kW) power until they change to their final channel allocations (58, 60- and 56) on 27 June 2012.
However, ArqB will move to a temporary channel (63) on 16 November this year but, if you can't receive them now, it's likely you'll have to wait until 27 June 2012.
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Sunday, 24 July 2011
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Norm De Plume12:02 AM
For Linux users, if you are scanning for channels try using the following in the configuration file for uk-Sudbury
T 634000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 658000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 738000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 698000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 706000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
MythTV refused to scan properly for ArqA and ArqB so they refused to lock, but once I seeded the scanning process with the above, everything was fine and I could generate my own channels.conf file.
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