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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Thursday, 31 May 2012
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Nick11:18 AM
Seems like the Dutchmen are at it again, hoped this would go away with digital.
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Landlubber Dave9:04 PM
Clacton-on-sea
Thanks guys for your helpful comments and leads. I have had a good read up on this site, especially regarding the "inversion effect"
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Landlubber's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 1 June 2012
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andre6:29 PM
Colchester
hi there cant get 18 21 and 24 freeview channels but could before the new year . live at Co7 6eb sudbury transmitter
Ive re scanned re tuned , taking plugs out of the wall, disconnected freeview , the aerial cable and tried new cables, nothing !!
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andre's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
andre: Many people are in the same position as you. The long-awaited power increase of the Commercial channels from Sudbury happens on 27th June when a retune will be necessary.
The best thing is probably to sit it out, knowing that it should be OK come the 27th.
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Thursday, 7 June 2012
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david popperwell6:08 PM
Ipswich
Don't beleive this site when it says there is no technical fault the last three channels are only transmitting at about 1% to 10 % we should only have to wait until 27th of june for full power.
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david's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 10 June 2012
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A D Woods1:22 PM
Chelmsford
I have recently found that my channel 63 (810 Mhz) reception has virtually disappeared. I live in north Chelmsford and my post code is CM1 7HW.
Is there a transmission problem as I have not had a problem since switchover?
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A's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
A D Woods: This one and the other Commercial multiplexes are on low power until 27th of this month when a retune will be required.
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An Irate Freeview viewer2:43 PM
Braintree
I live in Braintree, Essex, postcode CM7 5QY.
My household lost ITV4 (and others on the same multiplex) on the last retune and I sincerely hope that on June 27th that ITV4 is restored to my service by a simple retune as I am getting fed up with watching the British Touring Car Championship on ITV4 via the ITV website - it's a poor quality stream at best.
What I don't understand is that others up the road can receive ITV4 and my household can receive the channels on COM5 and A which are also at low power.
This leads me to believe my household will never get ITV4 (and the other channels on that multiplex) back without spending money on a new aerial or other expensive equipment - something which shouldn't be necessary considering this switchover has been forced upon us.
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An's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
An Irate Freeview viewer: See the report above from A D Woods citing the same problem over the last day or so.
Whilst there is never a guarantee, you will be expected to get these channels back once the power goes up on 27th.
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