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 11/11/2024 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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Tuesday, 22 November 2011
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Norm De Plume8:10 AM
Buckers - ignore my previous post about the 9200T, it was meant for Russ
Russ - check out this page about some boxes that have trouble receiving multiple modes: TVs and boxes that do not support the 8k-mode | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice (IP142JJ)
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Keith Cameron3:52 PM
Felixstowe
Re-scanned this afternoon and all missing channels on ARQA are back!
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Thursday, 24 November 2011
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Jon Fev11:12 PM
After the July changes I had brilliant reception from Sudbury on all Freeview Channels. Was also able to recive the HD ones. From Nov 16th, have less channels than at any other time. ITV4, Yesterday, Dave etc gone or intermittent. Carried out clear out and retune to no good effect on all my digital receivers, pretty much same result on all of them. Reps from Digital UK on local TV and Radio are being told about this problem and they are just telling people to retune. Very annoying!!
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Friday, 25 November 2011
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Rob; In Kelvedon12:36 AM
Another fine mess then this makes me glad that I have shelled out for a satellite box, trying to watch something on ITV 4 tonight (and Film 4 yesterday) neither working. Before 16/11/11 fabulous reception , still before July we couldn't even watch ITV1/CH4 most days. Hey ho, long live Humax
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michael12:15 PM
I have encountered the same problem. BEFORE 16/11/11 ALL CHANNELS WORKED FINE. Why has this changed? Extremely annoying.
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Stuart O.
4:38 PM
Wrexham
4:38 PM
Wrexham
I was wondering, comparing the ITV regions on this website to the ITV regions you can add and view through the 'Other Channels' facility and then comparing that to the actual terrestrial transmitters, how do they all match up?
For example, there is an Anglia W(west), Anglia E(east) and an Anglia S(south) available through Sky.
Yet this website says that Tacolneston and Sudbury are Anglia East and Sandy Heath is Anglia West.
Is this correct?
Because I would look at the Anglia transmitter location maps and see that Sudbury should show as being Anglia South.
Likewise, there are many transmitters in the Meridian Region. On Sky there is 4 regions, South, East, South-East and North.
But there are 10 main transmitters for Meridian. These show as Oxford (Meridian N), Hannington (N), Whitehawk Hill (Southampton, presumably Meridian S), Bluebell Hill (Maidstone), Rowridge (Southampton), Dover (Maidstone), Heathfield (Maidstone), Midhurst (Southampton), Hastings (says ITV Hastings though presumably one of the aforementioned Meridian regions) and Tunbridge Wells (says ITV Tunbridge Wells though presumably one of the aforementioned Meridian regions).
So which (main) transmitters in the Meridian region transmit Meridian North, Meridian South, Meridian East and Meridian South-East?
Dover, Bluebell Hill and Heathfield for example shows as Meridian Maidstone so with Hastings being 'a stone's throw away' to Heathfield's Hollington Park relay, with Hastings showing as ITV Hastings, I'm wondering if it is actually Meridian Maidstone? Looking again at the transmitter map, it's awkward to tell which transmitters form part of the Meridian East region and which transmitters form part of the Meridian South-East region. I don't know where the 'dividing line' is between the South and South-East Meridian regions.
I'm not sure if Bluebell Hill and Tunbridge Wells would be classified as Meridian East and Heathfield, Hastings and Dover as Meridian South-East.
But then this website says that Bluebell Hill, Dover and Heathfield are all Meridian Maidstone.
Even the Central region on Sky shows as having 4 regions, W, E, S and SW. I know that the Central South region shown on Sky is now actually Meridian North for Oxford (Sky need to update this) so you would think that Ridge Hill is Central SW but this website says Ridge Hill is Central W.
So it would be nice and easier if the ITV regions shown on this website carried the same compass suffix e.g. North, West, South-East etc... such as Meridian South-East rather than the town name i.e. Maidstone. At least they would have the same names they do both on this website and through Sky.
I look forward to reading how this all translates geographically between terrestrial and satellite platforms.
Thanks.
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Stuart's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 26 November 2011
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David9:01 PM
Same as Michael & Rob. Excellent reception prior to the 16th Nov. Glad they done the update! Cant get itv4 or film4 now, the only channels worth watching.....
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dave9:18 PM
HI I had the same problem, rang alpha aerials sudbury 312822, they were very helpful and got me sorted, now have all channels back and wife is happy again
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Sunday, 27 November 2011
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Peter12:18 AM
Colchester
When using the Sudbury transmitter on an aerial put up by professionals last spring I'm having screen freezes and pixelated lines on BBCA Ch 44.
D3+4 on Ch41 and even SDN on Ch 49 at reduced power have been good and clean pictures.
ArqB has been lost since it went to Ch 63 a while back.
But the thing that bothers me is why the BBCA mpx keeps breaking up.
Oh I have retuned my set top box numerous times.
Any sugestions?
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