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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Saturday, 7 April 2012
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JPW4:02 PM
Sudbury transmitter is giving VERY poor signal to CM2 for Film 4 etc. This has caused intermittent loss of service for this since 5 Apr 2012 which can be restored by automatic or manual retune. It seems totally unreasonable to have to wait for 27 June for signal upgrade to restore service.
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JPW4:06 PM
JPW: Previous post should read 'CANNOT BE RESTORED' by automatic or manual return.
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Monday, 9 April 2012
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John Chambers8:23 PM
My Yesterday, Film 4 and ITV-4 signal was lost last November in CM8 (Witham). Friends living a mile away can still get Yesterday!
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Simon9:08 PM
John
you have lost these channels due to signal levels being low, do you have a wideband aerial and/or any amplifier on you aerial? if you still have an old aerial oyur options are either new wideband aerial or wait until june 27th retune when the multiplex changes to channel 56 from its current 63
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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jb387:50 AM
John Chambers: And if I could just add, that purely with reference to the last part of your posting re; Friends living a mile away, in areas where reception from a lower powered mux channel is generally received on the weak side its not exactly uncommon for a person on one side of a road to struggle with reception whereas the signal is reasonably OK on the other side, as even a distance of only a few feet can sometimes show large differences in signal strength.
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jb388:02 AM
John Chambers: NOT that I am suggesting changing anything, as the low powered commercial channels and especially the one you are having problems with (ArqB 2.2Kw) all switch over to 100Kw operation on the date mentioned, something which will eliminate the majority of problems such as the type experienced by yourself.
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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
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James Elliston6:54 PM
Hi I hope you can help i use to get my freeview signal through a box, I recently purchased a new tele with freeview HD built in I can no longer get itv4,film4 and the rest of the channels on this band wave. So I went out and purchased a Mux Magician High Gain Wide band Aerial design for poor recption areas. Still no joy any help would be much apprecaited.
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Thursday, 19 April 2012
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Norm De Plume7:11 AM
James, you haven't given your postcode so it's difficult to tell, but for most people this situation is caused by not enough signal on the multiplex which carries Film4 etc (COM6). Because of the need to not interfere with adjacent TV areas, this multiplex was temporarily moved, in November, to a higher channel number than is ideal and set to a very low power. As a result of this, many people on the Sudbury transmitter cannot receive Film4. This should be cured on 20th July, once Dover have had their digital switchover and COM6 moves to an easier to receive channel and is boosted to the same power level as the BBC and main ITV multiplexes.
If it is a case of distance from the transmitter, my recommendation would be to upgrade the lead from the wall socket to the TV itself to a quality item - it's easy to make them up and you can get the wire and the connectors in DIY stores. After that, you should try to upgrade the main cabling (in both cases here, use double screened satellite quality cable). Next, it would be interesting to see if a small amplifier would help you out, but I would recommend borrowing one first because you won't need it in 3 months time after the July retune.
There is, however, another type of issue and that is actually caused by being too close to the transmitter. If that is the case, the high power received from the BBC and ITV multiplexes swamps the receiving circuit in the box and ruins reception on the lowest power channels. In this case, the solution is less power and not more. Check out Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice in case that is the problem. Even if it is not a case of too much power, there are still some good tips on that link that you should check out about tuning. (IP142JJ)
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Tim CO14
11:34 AM
11:34 AM
Norm De Plume/James Elliston: Sound advice! Sorry to be picky Norm, but just one tiny error - the date for the last Sudbury re-tune is scheduled for 27 June 2012, when ArqA and B should return for those who have missed it!
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James Elliston7:22 PM
James Elliston: Woops sorry guys, I live in Halstead postcode CO9 1XE so not that far so might be a question of too much power guess will have to wait till the 27th June and see what happens thank you for your responses (51.9360,0.6357)
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