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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 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Sudbury transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C44 (658.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
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1 BBC One (SD) East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C41 (634.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
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3 ITV 1 (SD) (Anglia (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Anglia east),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C47 (682.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H max
C29 (538.0MHz)186mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H max
C31- (553.8MHz)228mDTG-8100,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H max
C37 (602.0MHz)228mDTG-8100,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
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
regional news image
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 WestTransposer1000 homes +1000 or more homes due to expansion of affected area?
WithamTransposer14 km NE Chelmsford.118 homes

How will the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-131 Aug 2018
B E TB E TB E TE TK T
C29SDN
C31ArqA
C35C5wavesC5waves
C37ArqB
C41ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C44BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C47C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCB
C51tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C56tv_offArqB
C58tv_offSDN
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

Oct 1959-Feb 2004Anglia Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Sudbury was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Friday, 29 June 2012
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Russell Battle
8:18 PM

Well if the transmitter at Sudbury has got no problems then someone must have turned a dial down on com5 arqa. Because here in Ip3 the signal has gone really low since the 27/06.

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Ben
8:20 PM
Clacton-on-sea

Just suddenly lost everything on Channel 30, 8pm tonight. Other channels are fine, any ideas?

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Dale
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

8:27 PM
Ipswich

Russell Battle : ArqA is now on high power BUT has moved up the 'dial' to Channel 60 (from 54). If you have an 'old' Group-B aerial (which only officially goes to CH53), that would explain why it is struggling to pull in CH60. Are you now getting ArqB on Ch56 OK? (was on low-power on CH63 until 27th)

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sentiment_satisfiedBronze

8:32 PM
Ipswich

Mrs Baker : see my answer to Russell Battle. 5* is now part of SDN which is being broadcast on Channel 58 (up from 49) so if you, too, have an old aerial you could be struggling to get that and ArqA on CH60.

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Ben
8:59 PM
Clacton-on-sea

Still no Dave, ITV4, etc. Retuned and no joy. Fault on the Sudbury transmitter? All working well since Wednesday then suddenly loads of stations disappeared tonight.

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Steve
10:01 PM
Witham

It's nice to be back with ITV 4/Film 4 etc since the 27th update to Sudbury transmissions. However I've now lost E4+1, Dave, Sky news and Talksport radio etc from Arq A now broadcasting on channel -60. This is very odd as channel 58 is coming through nice and strong, pretty much full strength. Yesterday when I was re-tuning I picked up channel -60 albeit at a mediocre strentgh of around 67%, it's now has no signal quality and about 15% strength!! What goes??

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Mark Fletcher
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11:19 PM
Lytham St. Annes

Steve,Witham.The most likely cause is atmospheric conditions or to rephrase the inversion effect !
Or are you still using a group B (yellow tipped) aerial ?
If you are then you may have to replace your old antenna with a new group E (brown tipped) semi-wideband aerial,with new copper-copper black coloured co-ax cable and new preferably brass co-ax aerial plug !

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Mark Fletcher
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11:41 PM
Lytham St. Annes

Ben,Clacton on Sea.
I have just checked and from what i am aware there are no problems reported at Sudbury main transmitter whatsoever !
Are you still using an old group B aerial,which could explain why you are unable to pick up ArqA on frequency 60 at Sudbury ?
And you stated that in your earlier post you lost everything on Channel 30 at 8pm tonight,well Sudbury does not use frequency 30,but Crystal Palace transmitter does use BBCB (HD) on frequency 30 itself.Are your aerials diplexed as such,a group A aerial horizontally polarised aimed at Crystal Palace,and most likely an old group B aerial horizontally polarised aimed at Sudbury ?
Then again the inversion effect is another possibility as South East England experienced settled weather just recently.

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Saturday, 30 June 2012
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Ben
1:33 AM
Clacton-on-sea

Thanks for your reply, Mark. The channel 30 thing was a red herring, sorry, my mistake. Ok, so what's happening is I lost a load of stations last week, then on Wednesday when the Sudbury transmitter was pimped up, they all came back with good picture quality, no issues, happy days. Then tonight I'm watching Dave with a perfect picture and suddenly it falls over and I've lost a whole lot of other stations. All the BBC stations and a few others (on 41 and 44) are fine with a signal quality of 8/10 but a signal strength of 4/10. I keep getting a "new dvb channel has been found" message but when I re-scan no new ones are found. I am at sea level, so get a few glitches sometimes but not experienced a complete outage like this before. Neighbours are getting intermittent problems too. It's as if the transmitter has gone back to its former low power? Anyway, appreciate your thoughts on this... cheers.

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Trevor Wright
9:05 AM

Braintree, Essex:
Last night, 29 June, from around 18:00 onwards for an hour or more I was getting drop-outs and NO SIGNAL on various stations when viewed via my TVonics MDR 240 set-top box, which was however showing reasonable signal strength but it was fluctuating a bit.
Switching to the same channel on my Humax PVR - no problems at all, and its signal strength was showing slight fluctuations but consistent 100% quality. I have a recently fitted broadband aerial, 21-39 channel Antiference filter and modern style of downcable. I guess the receiver on the Humax is more tolerant than the TVonics. After about 20:00 no further problems, good picture with no disturbances on either source.
Atmospheric effects? or did Sudbury have a wobble?
Also, why has channel 47 shown a higher signal strength before and after 27 June (about 73-76% on my Humax PVRs meter) than the other channels which are now 70-72% whereas before 41 and 44 were 73%?

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