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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Wednesday, 27 June 2012
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thornberry2:49 PM
Ipswich
Just completed the 27th June 2012 retune. I have lost ITV3,5*,5USA,Quest and some shopping channels. I have gained ITV4, Film4, Russia Today and some shopping channels. Is this par for the course?
IP4 2BT roof aerial.
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Mark Fletcher3:05 PM
Ipswich
Thornberry.Ipswich,IP4 2BT.If your aerial is polarised horizontally and directed at Sudbury itself,try firstly to perform a full reset of your appliance,then with the aerial unplugged perform an automatic scan the result no channels will be found.Now after this replug in your aerial and preferably do a manual scan of the multiplexes from Sudbury,it should do the trick.
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Hollzjw5:25 PM
Sudbury
Julian Fasler and Thornberry, I had the same problem until i discovered pick tv, 5 USA, 5* and itv3 etc have moved to channel 58 and channel 60, just do a manual scan on these two channels and you should get a the missing channels.
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Tim CO14
7:34 PM
Walton On The Naze
7:34 PM
Walton On The Naze
At last! It's been a struggle over the past months and years, but it looks like we now have a full service from Sudbury (at least I have here!). And good advice from Mark Fletcher: clear the tuner's memory of all channels, then re-scan.
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Mark Fletcher7:48 PM
Lytham St. Annes
Tim CO14.Im pleased everything ultimately worked out correctly for you and many other Sudbury transmitter viewers.
Happy viewing !
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Mark Fletcher8:04 PM
Lytham St. Annes
Julian Fasler.Bury St Edmunds.
Yes ArqA along with SDN and ArqB are now broadcasting on 100kw apiece.
As for the missing programmes you stated did you rescan your appliance.
Better still perform a full reset of your appliance then with the aerial unplugged do a automatic scan,it will pick up zero channels.Now after this plug the aerial back in only this time preferably manual scan the channels instead,it should work !
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Julian Fasler8:34 PM
Bury St. Edmunds
Mark Fletcher.
I cleared all channels as you suggested but on a manual scan Channel 60 has virtually no signal strength or quality.I think the problem must lie with my (rather elderly) aerial.
Thanks for your advice.
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Mark Fletcher8:54 PM
Lytham St. Annes
Julian Fasler.No problem.Is it just the ArqA multiplex you are having a problem with.
If as you stated the problem lies with your elderly aerial is it coloured yellow at its tips,denoting a group B aerial.
If so you may have to replace your aerial with a group E semi-wideband type coloured brown at its tips,either a Yagi 18E or an X-Beam 16E antenna,and simultaneously replace both the aerial cable with superior copper-copper black coloured co-ax cable and co-ax aerial plug,preferably brass aerial plugs,not alloy or worse plastic plugs they're useless.
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Dale
9:28 PM
Ipswich
9:28 PM
Ipswich
Julian : I also suspect you have an old Group-B aerial which only goes up to CH53 (officially) but is probably just getting CH56 and CH58, but not stretching to CH60. Radio Suffolk actually ran a piece on Sunday (by me) highlighting this potential problem with older aerials. You will need to do what Mark Fletcher says!
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Julian Fraser: You can't really compare signal strength meters between devices. However, you can compare the strengths of the different multiplexes with the same device. See if 56 and 58 are quite a bit lower than BBC and ITV on 44 and 41 respectively. This would tend to suggest that your Group B aerial is not good enough for C60 which quite a bit out of group.
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