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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Tuesday, 22 May 2012
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Richard 8:26 PM
Halstead
Yes ,thanks Norm , its without doubt the leaves,the PSB multiplex signals ,strength & quality are down, allowing the tv & recorder receivers to re-sensitisation so I can now get Sky News again ! Yippee ! Since I got a wideband aeriel in 2006 not had any probs until they buggered about with the tx ,for some reason in late Nov .Rich Halstead
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Wednesday, 23 May 2012
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jill12:33 PM
Tx guys, the aerial system and cables were all set up last year by Bennets a very reputable aerial specialist in Colchester so Im guessing we just have to hang fire for the power upgrade in June. It is just literally the last few weeks where its all gone on those specific channels. I have recordings from March from the channels where everything was fine! #drums fingers and sighs deeply#
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Saturday, 26 May 2012
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Nick4:45 PM
Can anyone tell me why we have this page for questions on Sudbury? It is confusing as we already have one called freeview from Sudbury transmitter.
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KMJ,Derby11:04 PM
Nick: Originally all transmitters offered an analogue service, usually on four or five channels. Each transmitter therefore had its own page dedicated to the analogue switch-off. Additionally there were 80 transmitters which offered a (usually) low power Freeview service. These transmitters had the "Freeview on the Sudbury TV transmitter" type pages to give details from the viewpoint of a digital household. Following DSO the analogue orientated pages are re-titled "digital TV transmitter" with details given for the replacement digital services, the Freeview orientated pages being similarly up-dated to show the current situation.
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Sunday, 27 May 2012
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Norm De Plume8:35 AM
@John - The answer to your question is that power on Sudbury is increasing again on 27th June. At the same time as the power increase, ArqB (the multiplex with those channels) will move from its temporary frequency of C63 to the final frequency of C56, which also is a lot easier to receive.
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Heinz3:58 PM
I just had a TV repaired (well, if you can call a software upgrade a repair) by Andrews TV of Colchester (another very reputable company).
The job sheet states they'd updated the software and re-scanned for channels and yet all Arq B channels were missing when I got the set back - so even the professionals are still having difficulties!
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jb385:56 PM
Heinz: Purely out of interest I was wondering what model of TV you had this work carried out on?
Of course the other thing is, that if they re-scanned the TV it could well be the case that Andrews TV is not necessarily located in a best reception area as far as picking up the commercial transmitters are concerned, especially the exceptionally low powered ArqB Ch50 that doesn't increase in power until June 27th.
That said though, "if" you see EPG12 (Yesterday) on the programme guide then they are receiving it and you are not, however if you do not see EPG12 then they haven't received it either, and so you could try retuning the TV yourself just in case you are in a better spot.
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012
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Landlubber Dave6:09 PM
Clacton-on-sea
We live approx 2 miles inland just outside Clacton on Sea. I fitted a new Satgear Alpha Mini High Gain HD Aerial on the roof about 5 weeks ago fed I belief by the Sudbury transmitter. The reception has been a Hugh improvement over my old Aerial. However on Sunday 27/05/12 we had reception problems on most channels on both our TV's just for that one (hot & humid) day, although checking this site there was no problems with Sudbury. Would this be due to weather conditions?
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Mark Fletcher6:19 PM
Halifax
Landlubber Dave,Clacton on Sea.Yes is the answer to the question you asked at the end of your text.The inversion effect was the most likely cause !
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Phil48:52 PM
Clacton-on-sea
Landlubber Dave, I quite agree with your statement that problems with reception only we have noticed this over the last week and seems to be confined to BBC channels only. When I say reception problems I really mean no BBC channels just a blank screen. I know that some one has mentioned this before "do not rely on this signal" I am talking about signal strength on Digi-boxes, the signal strength indicator kept jumping from 50% - 20% also when I re-scanned the box I was picking up signals from lots of different places i.e C30's C40's C50's where I don't normally pick them up. BUT what is the point of digital signal if I am unable to watch TV at night regardless of weather conditions!
I'm hoping that once the signal is boosted next month I will get some normality as I cannot receive most of the lower power signals at the moment. Ariel on roof & old Digibox which works OK in the day!
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