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 18/11/2024 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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Monday, 15 August 2011
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Gary Dadds10:10 PM
Oh well I tried my Samsung BD-C8200 box at my parents (CB11) and could get no HD from Sandy, their Panasonic TV pulls it in ok. I have emailed Amazon concerning a warranty return. I await their reply in anticipation.
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011
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Pete Green11:01 AM
Weston-super-mare
John Stone
There only about 5 areas for ITV1+1 and ITV HD. So you only get Meridian. I live in Sometset and have make do with Welch on those two.
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Pete's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb3812:19 PM
Gary Dadds: Thanks for the update, which has somewhat proved my suspicions about the box, however this was reinforced when I finally managed to have a look at the user manuals spec for that device, as it doesnt state that its capable of operating on DVB-T2, the UK's freeview HD standard, as its only shown as a DVB-T device, that being the cause of your problem.
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pm4:58 PM
Ipswich
Hi,have experienced probs,with freeview lately,had new ariel and shielded cable installed split around the house and boosted i guess by return from a t.v,my signal strength is approx 60% on all bbc and itv channels.Reception is poor,unwatchable in many cases,by set top box and built in.Sudbury is our tranmitter and it,s showing no tech or eng. works.
Post code is ip1 5jf.any help appreciated.
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Gary Dadds5:02 PM
jb38: Amazon have offered a full refund, a bit quick off the mark there since I only emailed them at about 9.00pm last night and had a reply awaiting me at 8.00am this morning. Something I have noticed is that Samsung have released a BD-D8200 whereas mine is a BD-C8200. I wonder if that one will work?
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pm: You might want to try removing the booster from your system - having too strong a signal will cause the kind of problems you have. You are in a very strong signal area, you shouldn't need a booster.
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Tony6:27 PM
Hi all, ive got myself a rover meter t2. it has cofdm and sat finder on it but i have no plans on it. i need the anglia region and london, been on the rover site and followed the protercal but all i can get off them is europe, usa and asia. so you can see my predicerment. HEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPP!!!!
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Thursday, 18 August 2011
Tony: All the transmitter frequencies are listed on this site.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011
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John Stone12:36 PM
Hockley
John Stone SS5 4JN
I swung my aerial round to Blubell Hill and found that the signals were too low, bearing in mind that I have taken off the mast head amp the mux signals varied from 10% to 24%. The quality of the signal on the higher ones were 100% but the lower ones were only 10%. I couldn't receive anything from London or Dover. I know people living less than 500m from me can, I think it depends which way the wind blows. I'm sure if I did fit the amp back in line I could watch Bluebell hill but I think I will wait until next year when London, Dover and Bluebell hill switch over.
Thanks.
John.
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John Stone1:40 PM
Hockley
PS.
The signals from Sudbury/Rounefall on the back of the aerial were 64% for strength and 100% for quality.
John.
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