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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter._______
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, 14 August 2012
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Heinz7:40 PM
There's no 3D on terrestrial Tessa, it's only on Sky (satellite).
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Norm De Plume10:31 PM
Hi Tessa,
The Olympics closing ceremony, and much of the Olympics, was broadcast on BBC HD (not BBC1 HD). I even have the recordings to prove it!
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Wednesday, 15 August 2012
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Jason6:08 AM
Whilst on the subject of the Olympics I noticed something the other afternoon, the living room and kitchen tv's were both on, the living room was on 301 and the kitchen on bbc1, by chance the programme that was being transmitted on 301 also started transmitting on bbc1 when that current sport had finished, I could hear the commentary from both as I walked from one room to the other and noticed that bbc1 was about 1 to 1.5 seconds behind 301.
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Tessa Forsdike6:07 PM
I hear your experience about where 3D is broadcast, Heinz, - but the BBC were telling us all that the closing ceremony (and the opening one too) was available in 3D on BBC HD - and Norm de Plume (like the sense of humour!) says he has the recordings - can you please confirm that was in 3D and was from the Sudbury transmitter?
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Thursday, 16 August 2012
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Kevin Hodges1:03 PM
Chelmsford
Tessa, there is no mention of 3D anywhere on the Freeview website. It was available on Virgin Cable TV
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Kevin's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 17 August 2012
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Heinz9:57 AM
British Eurosport transmitted much of the Olympics in 3D on the only 3D channel currently available in the UK - Sky channel 217.
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Heinz10:00 AM
Sorry, I meant to say, "..... one of only two (the other's on Virgin cable) 3D channels currently available in the UK - Sky chanel 217."
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
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Richard1:15 PM
Hockley
Tessa, the opening and closing ceremonies and each days highlights (broadcast after 11:00pm) were shown on BBC HD (including the Sudbury transmitter) in side by side mode and appeared on ordinary TV's 2 squashed images side by side. This was on BBC HD not BBC1 HD.
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 20 August 2012
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Robert12:38 PM
Hi Jason. I listen to Radio 4 on FM and sometimes via my tv. If I walk between rooms it can be bit weird as the tv is about a second behind the FM radio. From what I've heard, the speed at which digital decoders works varies from product to product, so assume that expains the difference you experience. The 'pips' when received digitally are very slightly out of sync.
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Wednesday, 12 September 2012
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Nick6:01 PM
Aldeburgh
Please would someone give me an address or phone number of whoever I should contact re reception problems from Sudbury on Arq A only? I get all other muxes, and turning the aerial, various other transmitters, but Arq is usually not there at all, or pixelates.
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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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