Full Freeview on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter
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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 29/04/2024 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
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
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Monday, 7 September 2015
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Mark Chadwick 5:43 PM
I live in old Costessey, Norwich and I have no freeview channels for TV and other channels. What is happening in the area or is it my airier. I retuned my TV and lost a large number of channels including ITV and Channel four. Can anyone offer an explanation .
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MikeB6:08 PM
Macclesfield
Mark Chadwick : Your just 16km from Talcneston, and DigitalUK reckons you should have a great reception. Logically, the first thing to check is your aerial - if there is a broekn cable, etc, then that will obviously mean a total loss of signal. Try just replacing the old aerial lead from the TV to the wall - cheap and easy to do, and that might be the problem.
Unfortunately you retuned the TV. assuming it was on the correct transmitter, you've possibly retuned it to an incorrect one, much further away, and only just enough to lock on, but not enough to actually get you a working signal. Since Talcneston is a much higher frequency number than the rest of the possible transmitters, thats possible. Try manually tuning the TV in and see. If it works, great, but its highly likely that your aerial system isn't working perfectly.
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jb388:27 PM
Mark Chadwick : You should also be aware that engineering work is presently being carried out at the Tacolneston transmitting station, a warning of "possible service interruptions" having been posted to this effect, the point being, if the retune you refer to has been carried out whilst the signal was down (or very low) this will have deleted everything stored in the tuner, a further auto-tune being required to load the channels back in.
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jb388:56 PM
Mark Chadwick : Also meant to say, if another auto-tune does not resolve the problem, it would be prudent to check with some other household located nearby for the purpose of ensuring that a signal is there to receive, as the engineering work referred to is of an ongoing nature, meaning that the signal could go down at any time during the day, and possibly on more than one occasion.
You should by the way, also carry out the checks mentioned by MikeB, this action being essential if its found out that your neighbours reception is OK.
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Thursday, 10 September 2015
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Tuesday, 22 September 2015
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Friday, 2 October 2015
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Saturday, 10 October 2015
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Monday, 16 November 2015
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Jon2:11 AM
I arrived here after Googling 'freeview problems', I can see no mention of engineering works, so this is our problem..
The last couple of days have seen problems with COM7 (UHF 31) DVB-T2 HD Mux - I can get the channels but they lock-up,freeze or pixelate to the point of being unwatchable.
COM 8 (UHF 37) DVB-T2 HD Mux has disappeared completely and attempting to manually scan UHF 37 locks on to the PAT, PMT & SDT but no channels found.
I spoke to a friend who suggested it may be due to 4G interference, but surely any 4G interference would cause problems on the muxes closer to 800mhz, PSB1 & PSB2 (745mhz & 777mhz, respectively.
The 2 muxes I am having problems with are COM7 at 554mhz & COM8 at 602mhz
So I doubt that is the problem, he also mentioned the trong wind we are experiencing at current.
I have no idea if he is talking rubbish or he is actually correct, Can anyone with proper technical know-how shed any light on this situation?
Thanks in advance - Jon
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MikeB11:58 AM
Jon: You havn't given us a postcode, so we dont know where you are in relation to the transmitter.
However, could be a couple of things. You might have noticed a load of problems from people, whose normal reception has completely gone up the wall. The most likely explaination is the high pressure system over parts of the UK at the moment. If you only started to get the problem in roughly the last week, it might well be that. Since this sort of thing doesn't happen all that often, and like all UK weather, will change, hopefully soon that should be it.
Next - what is your signal strength like on those Mux's? If its 90-100%, then its too high. HD is more likely to get hit by too high a signal strength, so a picture breaking, going entirely, etc, might be that the turner is screaming, not that there is a problem elsewhere. If it is very high, get an attenuator (Toolstation do a variable attenuator with F fittings for 3.79, and fixed ones can be had from Amazon for less than 2 each - which is what I use). See 'too much of a good thing' on this website. BTW - do you have an amplifier? That could be part of the problem.
Could be 4G. But the bulk of people who suggest that dont end up with that as the actual problem - signal strength, dodgy cables are much more likely to be at fault. If you put your postcode into the site, there will be a link to a map of 4G sites, so you can see how close you are.
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