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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Saturday, 7 July 2012
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Norm De Plume9:56 PM
@John - the weak muxes moved channels on 27th June. The reason you can't receive them now is because they aren't there any more.
A retune should have you sorted.
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Sunday, 8 July 2012
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Steve P12:32 PM
Why are some of the channels shown here out of date (for a few weeks now)? Someone should update them. ITV3 is on C58, for example.
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Nick5:54 PM
Aldeburgh
Thanks Robert, still missing many channels, a friend tells me they are still playing for another week.
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Nick's: mapN's Freeview map terrainN's terrain plot wavesN's frequency data N's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Dale
7:44 PM
Ipswich
7:44 PM
Ipswich
Have noticed that there is an interruption every day at 3.29 p.m. It only lasts a few seconds but is at exactly the same time each day for the last few days. Not sure if it is every MUX as have been on BBC1/2 for the tennis every time!
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Dale's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 9 July 2012
Hi
Just a quick ask? I retuned my mother in laws tv today she is in Gosfield Essex, total channels 24 tv on digital, 11 radio, and 3 data, lots missing, is there a reason for this, retuned it 3 times as it seemed that so many were not there, anyone enlighten me, is that what we are ending up with, or does it need retuning again at a later date.
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John Snowden: Perhaps the problem is a Group B aerial which needs replacing. See this posting I made on this point in relation to the Sudbury transmitter:
Freeview reception - all about aerials | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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John Snowden: Also see above postings. It "may" be that Sudbury is not in its final state and therefore it might be worth waiting a little longer before replacing the aerial.
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Nick8:14 PM
Aldeburgh
I notice there is no mention now of engineering, but still minus Challenge.
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Nick's: mapN's Freeview map terrainN's terrain plot wavesN's frequency data N's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
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Nick9:14 AM
Aldeburgh
Please would some kind person give me a possible explanation as to why I cannnot receive anything from the mux on ch 60?
I get 100% from ch 58, and cannot see why just two channels higher there is not even a weak signal. Granted the aerial may not be wideband enough, yet when there were very low power stations on ch 63, just occasionally I could receive them. Nick, Hollesley.
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Nick's: mapN's Freeview map terrainN's terrain plot wavesN's frequency data N's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Robert B1:03 PM
With Sudbury finally transmitting on full power we read that with the introduction of 4G services by the moblie phone companies that Freeview may be disruppted for over two million viewers. If 4G goes ahead does anyone know if it will affetct Sudbury Freeview services? I read that some kind of filters will have to be connected to affected equipment to correct the problem. Sounds like more hassle.
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