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, 29 November 2015
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MikeP2:56 PM
Trowbridge
Dale Rumbold:
That's a very unusual problem! Have you chec ked with a neighbour to see if they are getting the same effect on their Freeview service? If they are not, then it is likely to be a fault in your equipment.
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MikeP's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 30 November 2015
Dale Rumbold
10:53 AM
10:53 AM
All working normally again by Saturday evening. Might be the telly, but strange it only happened on the BBC Channels across 2 MUXes and protocols.
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Dale's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 5 December 2015
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MarkO5:21 PM
Hi, My TV signal was fine until 3 days ago (Hythe, Colchester). I;ve checked all internal connections and a friend over the road has a perfect signal. Could mine be to do with the "possible weak signal" from the Sudbury transmitter? It's very annoying now as I have NO signal whatsoever and NO channels. I went to work one morning and it was fine, come home and nothing since Thursday :( help!
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MikeB6:33 PM
MarkO: If the bloke over the road has a perfect signal, and your not, and your both using the same transmitter, logically, it has to be your system. 'No Signal' is normally a broken cable, etc, and since we've had/having high winds at the moment, it sounds like thats the problem. You said you checked all the internal cables, etc - great, but what about the ones you cannot check?
Might need someone with a ladder, etc, but check the signal path, etc again, to make sure its something you cannpt repair yourself.
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MarkO6:47 PM
Thanks, I'm in a block of flats so not easy. Luckily the neighbour is having the same problem so might be the block
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MikeB8:08 PM
MarkO: Could well be the block. Always worth checking what signal strength other people are getting and what transmitter they actually tuned into. It could well be that there is a central fault, but the signal is weakened, and not out entirely (hence the reason why the someone else is fine, or at least they haven't noticed a problem). However, if you and some others also have a possibly weak link as well, then the two faults sort of combine.
Hope it gets sorted.
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Wednesday, 2 March 2016
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nick11:09 PM
so, I get a large aerial to pick up the main transmitter for Suffolk, Sudbury, as opposed to freeview light from my local relay, then lose Al Jazeera from channel 133 and find I cannot get it on 108. Brilliant, another clever move, freeview!
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jb3811:56 PM
nick : There's no chance of receiving AlJazerra (108) in the Suffolk area anyway, simply because said programme is now broadcast on COM7 which is not part of the multiplex line up at Sudbury.
Of course even if it was, only viewers with TV's or boxes capable of receiving HD transmissions could view the channel as COM7 is an HD multiplex, whereas previously when it was broadcast on COM6 anyone could, COM6 being a standard SD transmitter.
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Wednesday, 9 March 2016
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nick8:20 PM
thanks, JB, but why is Sudbury exempt from the new multiplex? It is not a relay, supposed to offer full service. Why also has Aljazeera left us in the lurch by vacating 133?
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Saturday, 30 April 2016
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Tim2:09 PM
Why can't you transmit BBC4 HD on the old BBC3 HD channel. Can't be that difficult can it?
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