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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Friday, 18 November 2011
Dale
10:28 AM
10:28 AM
Have just discovered something interesting : I have posted more details here :
www.ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051928 (IP29XY)
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Dale
10:39 AM
Ipswich
10:39 AM
Ipswich
Sorry : I can never paste links on this site so they work!!
Go to my 18th Nov 10.35 post on the 'Sudbury Arqiva multiplex B changes 16 November - retune required' thread. It details how I got the ArqB channels working again!
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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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Kevin Hodges1:52 PM
Chelmsford
I live in CM2 and have two STBs and one tv with built-in freeview. They all get their signal via a loft aerial and 4 way booster. Up until the latest channel change I was getting a good signal on all TVs and all MUXs. Since the latest change one of the STBs refuses to find ch63, both the other two TVs are fine. I can only conclude from this that the problem lies within that particular STB, perhaps that's the issue with other contributors?
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Kevin's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Kevin Hodges: You're not alone!
See:
Sudbury Arqiva multiplex B changes 16 November - retune required | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
What I would do if I were you is either take the STB that doesn't find the channel to an aerial outlet that has been used to successfully tune in another receiver.
You could even try taking the 'working' STB or TV to the aerial socket where the one that won't pick it up.
Not all tuners are as sensitive as one another. If the cable from the amplifier to the wall socket is longer for one, then more signal will be lost along its length.
If the booster has a variable control on it, you might be able to adjust it. (DN31NJ)
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john chilvers3:19 PM
Maldon
aerial is on the roof feeding two teles one with a digi box one staight digital tv and there is abooster onthe aerial in the loft
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Kevin Hodges3:37 PM
Chelmsford
Dave Lindsay:
It's not really an issue as the STB in question is in the spare room. All my cable runs are new WF100 and the STB is still reporting good or very good signal/quality on all the other MUXs. From memory the STB cost me the princely sum of £10 so I can't really complain, it was more a case of providing feedback on the channel change.
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dave Moore3:53 PM
Hi. Do you know when ARQA and ARQB will be transmitting on reasonable power on the Sudbury transmitter? I used to get these fine before switchover but now I am without either. I sort of expected this to be fixed on 16th Nov when Taclestone switched but obviously not.
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dave moore: 27th June 2012.
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jb385:17 PM
Kevin Hodges: You have to remember that no two devices have the same sensitivity, and the fact that you say that the two TV's are fine can in reality be simply because their tuners are slightly more sensitive than the boxes, and likewise are receiving a signal that's reached just enough above the cut off threshold to resolve a picture, the box likely being just under.
This coupled to the fact of the multiplex concerned (ArqB) being a few hundred watts less than the other low powered one (ArqA) does not make a good combination.
As the situation at the transmitter is not due to change until mid next year, you could try a factory re-set on the box then manually tune in Mux Ch63, if you get results then use the add channels or whatever its called on your device, to capture the other Muxes.
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buckers249:26 PM
Ch 63, says i have 71% strength, but 0% quality. humax pvr.
am i right in saying i have the signal but no channels?
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