Full Freeview on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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52.518,1.139 or 52°31'6"N 1°8'22"E

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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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) mast?

Tacolneston transmitter - Tacolneston transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Tacolneston 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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C40- (625.8MHz)	263m	DTG-	100,000W
	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	C43- (649.8MHz)	263m	DTG-	100,000W
	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), 71 That’s 60s,
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C46 (674.0MHz)	263m	DTG-	100,000W
	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 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H max	C42 (642.0MHz)	263m	DTG-8	100,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H max	C45 (666.0MHz)	246m	DTG-8	100,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H max	C39+ (618.2MHz)	246m	DTG-8	100,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others
LNR	H -10dB	C32 (562.0MHz)	263m	DTG-12	10,000W
	7 Mustard,

DTG-8 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	BBCtv_waves
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
C50_{tv_off}						BBCB	BBCB
C52_{tv_off}			C5_waves	C5_waves
C55_{tv_off}		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	-BBCA	-BBCA	-BBCA	com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}								COM8_{tv_off}
C57_{tv_off}							LNR	LNR
C59_{tv_off}		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	-D3+4	-D3+4	-D3+4
C62		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCB
C65		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves

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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

Oct 1959-Feb 2004	Anglia Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Tacolneston 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Peter Yallop
6:33 PM
Dereham

I cannot get Mustard tv ch8 on my Samsung 42" tv. I live in Dereham post code nr203be ! Can you advise me please My is on my

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Peter Yallop
7:03 PM
Dereham

Airial is on the

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Dave Lindsay

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8:31 PM

Peter Yallop : Mustard uses a the leaf-shaped radiation pattern which faces Norwich, as shown above. You're really on the edge of it so you might need to add some amplification and/or raise the height in order to get it (I note you may be in a bungalow and trees in the way).

Try a manual of UHF 57. Select/enter 57 but don't press the button to scan/add straight away. Instead, wait and see if you get a reading for strength and and see if it varies or is steady.

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David Allen
2:19 PM
Swaffham

I live in Necton, Swaffham, PE37 8NP and have recently taken deliver of a new box from Talk Talk. I have been through the guided set up and also tried the instructions on this website. I have also been into a / provider for some advice.

After an Auto the box picks up 136 including radio, however when I look through the tv guide there seems to be quite a few different channels missing. I have checked within the settings that the box is not hiding any channels and all appears to be fine there. The guy at the TV shop I visited suggested a manual retune as the box may not be collecting a from the correct . I am missing the likes of film 4, more 4 and E4 and ITV to name a few so it looks like what the guy is suggesting is correct, a complete .

There is no manual retune option on a YouView box that I can find after trolling the internet so assume that I can not exhaust this option unless anyone knows of a way of doing this. The only other thing that I think that it could be would be the aerial not picking up a wide enough band, however this seems a little over the top as the reason from switching from was to reduce the cost!!

Can anyone or provide me with some ideas?

Thank you

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3:00 PM

David Allen: The tuned UHF channel number is usually given on the strength screen. For BBC One it should be 55 for but perhaps it is 22 from or 27 from . If so, having the unplugged for the portion of the where the unwanted are may be a workaround.

Is there a preference for or choice of / as this is different for each region. For example, Belmont is something like "E Yks&Lincs". Maybe you need to set a preference for whatever Tacolneston is.

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3:09 PM

David Allen: Does your TV have built in? If so, then can you get ITV on UHF 59, rather than 25 or 24 which are and respectively.

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Ken Illsley
11:42 AM
Bury St. Edmunds

I have just installed a Humax HD recorder and tuned it in on automatic
I am getting all the available perfectly except BBC1 HD which keeps breaking up and disappearing intermittently
Last night for a short time there was a screen display which said BBC1 HD was not available but it has now gone
Is there any problem with this channel on the - BBC1 on SD is working perfectly and all the other HD channels work perfectly too
I am on the north side of and my aeriel points at the transmitter

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David Allen
12:38 PM

Dave Lindsay: Thank you for your response and ideas. The box does not give any idea other than percentage complete, therefore one would assume that it would be very difficult to know when to unplug the .

Having said this I have managed to fix the issue myself. I have never used the aerial since moving into the property and therefore never taken any notice or interest. On closer inspection I noticed that it has a head amp. In their wisdom the previous owner took the pack with them assuming that it was an !??

So firstly I purchased a power pack which boosted the strength form around 36% to 63% on most and retuned. This picked up an additional 5 channels, however the box was still not showing all channels in the TV guide.

I then factory reset the box and when prompted entered the postcode for the . Opened the TV guide and he presto all freeview channels now showing and available.

Once again Dave thank you for your ideas.

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MikeB

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2:08 PM

ken Illsey: The Humax has two rather sensitive tuners, and it does'nt always allow a manual .

So check your , because your just 1km from light transmitter, and the bearing isn't vastly different to Talcneston. You might have the wrong transmitter.

Then check strength. HD tends to get hit by too high a signal first, so check it and look here: Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you

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Richard
10:12 AM

Is Mustard available? Don't seem to get it in Southwold but I would think it would be on Talceseston.

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