Full Freeview on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter which serves 330,000 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 Tacolneston (Norfolk, 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Tacolneston 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Tacolneston transmitter?
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 16km northeast (37°)
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, 16km northeast (38°)
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?
Gt Yarmouth | Transposer | 1 km S town centre | 30 homes |
Lowestoft (2) | Transposer | Rotterdam Rd | 125 homes |
How will the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 17 Jul 2018 | ||
VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | E | E T | W T | W T | ||
C3 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
C32 | _local | ||||||||
C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
C39 | +ArqB | +ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
C40 | BBCA | ||||||||
C42 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
C43 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C45 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
C46 | BBCB | ||||||||
C50tv_off | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
C52tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C55tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | -BBCA | -BBCA | -BBCA | com7tv_off | ||
C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
C57tv_off | LNR | LNR | |||||||
C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
C62 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 9 Nov 11 and 23 Nov 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 | |
com7 | (-9.6dB) 27.4kW | |
com8 | (-10.2dB) 24kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, LNR | (-14dB) 10kW | |
Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 5kW | |
Analogue 5 | (-18dB) 4kW |
Local transmitter maps
Tacolneston Freeview Tacolneston DAB Tacolneston TV region BBC East Anglia (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Tacolneston transmitter area
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Friday, 4 April 2014
Lambo: it's is possible that some devices are not scanning for the transmission mode QSPK 8K 3/4
8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 but it's been in the Blue Book for many a year, perhaps the devices can do a manual scan... Can't think of any boxes I have seen that present QSPK as an option though.
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Friday, 9 May 2014
Transmitter engineering
5:51 PM
5:51 PM
TACOLNESTON transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 16:45 today to 17:21 today. [BBC]
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Saturday, 10 May 2014
Transmitter engineering
1:44 AM
1:44 AM
TACOLNESTON transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 16:45 yesterday to 17:21 yesterday. [BBC]
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Sunday, 11 May 2014
Transmitter engineering
2:39 AM
2:39 AM
TACOLNESTON transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 16:45 on 09 May to 17:21 on 09 May. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 27 May 2014
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Lost_Station_Man3:09 PM
Hi,
Over the last couple of days we had lost BBC Four HD and BBC News HD. (They were fine until a couple of days ago or so) So today i did a full system retune. This has now made things ten times worse as i now only have 25 DTV stations and 11 radio stations. So after a retune i have lost well over half my channels that were perfectly fine before i retuned. The only reason i retuned was because i'd lost BBC Four HD and BBC News HD. So why have i lost so many more stations after a retune? We have a brand new ariel that was set up by an expert less than a year ago, and the TV is less than a week old. We're in the PE38 Hilgay area.
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Dave Lindsay
4:57 PM
4:57 PM
Lost_Station_Man: Judging by the prediction of signals at the postcode associated with your previous posting I suggest that you aren't likely to be able to receive stable COM7 (BBC News HD etc) from Tacolneston because it's co-channel with that of Waltham. Perhaps you were either picking it up from Tacolneston or Belmont or Sandy Heath.
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Lost_Station_Man5:31 PM
Hi Dave,
I discovered what the problem was. It was a faulty cable running from the HD box to the back of the TV. (We have the main ariel plugged into an HD freeview recorder box, then a cable from the box to the TV) So i replaced the cable and all is working perfectly again now, we have all freeview and freeview HD stations back. Our signals are reading 90% signal strength, and 100% quality.
Cheers for the help though. =).
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Lost_Station_Man5:35 PM
Hi Dave,
I discoverd what the problem was. It was a faulty cable running from the HD box to the back of the TV. I replaced the cable and we now have all the stations and HD stations back. Our signal quality is back to 90% strength and 100% picture quality on both the HDTV reciever and our HD box reciever. Thanks for the help though.
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Monday, 2 June 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:32 PM
4:32 PM
TACOLNESTON transmitter - MainPossible weak signal [DUK]
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
TACOLNESTON transmitter - MainPossible weak signal [DUK]
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