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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Sunday, 28 July 2013
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jb3812:07 AM
Bill: Have you tried carrying out a factory reset on your TV prior to the auto-tune? this on some devices being called "default setting" or on others "first time installation, all of these procedures scrubbing the tuners memory of any data errors that may have occurred during the previous retune.
Should you still not have any success then maybe you could supply the model number of the Sony TV in question
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Tuesday, 6 August 2013
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Bill12:11 AM
Maldon
Bill:
Now fixed.
There wasn't a factory reset for tuning (everything but...) so I did a scan with no aerial lead to blank it out.
The subsequent automatic scan went OK, and a manual tune of Ch60 also picked up what it should have done this time.
Bit of a mystery, perhaps down to scanning in 'odd' weather.
Thanks
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Jay6:01 PM
Ipswich
Hi, I live in the IP5 area and today I did a retune of channels. Thay all came through perfectly on my TopUp tv freeview+ set-top box, but when I try to retune the Panasonic tv (with built in digital)(over 8 years old) it keeps coming up with the same message - NO DVB Services found. I have retuned with all options, factory settings, shipping conditions and have tried this 7 or 8 times during the course of today. Please Help. Techno novice.
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MikeB10:18 PM
Jay: Its just a guess, but try unplugging the aerial from the TV, then trying a scan/retune to clear everything, then plug it back it, and retune again.
You TV's memory can get full up, especially if ita bit old like your Panasonic (Dave Lindsay has a really good explaination of this, but I can't find it at the moment), and it needs a cleanout.
Give it a go, and see how you get on.
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Wednesday, 7 August 2013
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Jay9:46 AM
Ipswich
Jay: I have done this, but again no joy last night. Thought I would give it a go this morning, slightly less humid conditions and this time it has worked. All signals are back but not a very high strength of signal, keeps buffering. Probably weather related somehow, the freeview+ box is also saying buffering due to signal. Hopefully all will be okay when weather lowers the pressure.
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Saturday, 10 August 2013
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nick12:13 AM
are the powers that be not able to think up a way of stopping foreign transmitters blotting out Sudbury in summer?
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Tuesday, 13 August 2013
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steve willis7:41 AM
Olney
I have lost all digital signals from approx 1930 12 Aug. I receive from Sandy Heath. Web says there may be outages..anyone else have the problem? I am near Milton Keynes
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Saturday, 17 August 2013
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Simon11:43 AM
For some reason not receiving COM5 from Sudbury on Channel 60 - yet able to recieve full signal on other channels.
Any suggestions?
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Saturday, 24 August 2013
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Jason7:54 AM
Could anyone give me an answer to a quick question, I noticed last Saturday (August 17th) that Pick TV's schedule was showing Sky Sports programmes for part of the afternoon, Soccer Saturday and also the live premiership football, at the same time they were also being shown on Sky 2 as well as on the Sky Sports channel, was this just a one off as this Saturday (August 24th) Pick TV has resorted to its usual programming.
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Sunday, 25 August 2013
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pete green10:16 AM
Weston-super-mare
Jason
It was a one off.
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