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 04/11/2024 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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Thursday, 9 June 2016
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nick7:33 AM
over the last few days we have regularly lost ALL multiplexes on all tvs on all aerials. This is doubtless due to the Dutchmen who have been blotting out Sudbury for decades. Do those who constantly advertize the 'benefits' of freeview not take this on board?
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Richard Cooper9:23 AM
Norwich
nick: Hi, Nick. The main advantage of Freeview is that it is less expensive and easier than the other options for watching live television. The number of channels on offer is acceptable to the majority of tv viewers in the UK. The Freeview transmitter network as well as the Freeview digital tv systems in use were both planned as carefully as possible so as to minimise the effects of tropospheric scatter, 'lift', atmospheric or European interference, whatever you want to call it, so, 'Yes', the proponents of Freeview did take this on board! Out of interest, two questions for you for starters: (1). How far are you from the Sudbury transmitter? ( Your postcode would be a bonus) and (2). What is your Freeview equipment? i.e. is it a cheap or more expensive setup? The cheapest Freeview boxes have a poor reputation because they use poor quality electronic components, resulting in poor performance, poor signal sensitivity and poor signal quality. Assuming you've read this post. I'd appreciate your reply to ascertain whether we can advise you further. Richard, Norwich, Thurs. 9th. June, 2016 at 09:20 a.m.
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Paul11:52 AM
Dunmow cm6 1xu no signal whatsoever since couple of days!
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Richard Cooper12:49 PM
Norwich
Paul: Hi, Paul. Quoting from the official Digital UK website, "Latest News: Viewers in some parts of the UK may experience temporary disruption to their TV signal today due to high atmospheric pressure. We advise that you do not retune - reception will return to normal once this weather system passes." Should have passed us by by Saturday, all being well! Richard, Norwich.
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Saturday, 9 July 2016
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nick5:15 PM
Aldeburgh
Hi Richard,
Humax! But have cheaper ones which are no worse.
IP15 5HF
Use Sudbury with super aerial as local xmitter is 'light.'
Near 100% signal/quality, all muxes, but gets knocked out entirely at the slightest cause, Dutchmen, rain, fog.
Not impressed, used to get interference on analogue, but never 'no signal.'
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Richard Cooper7:29 PM
Norwich
nick: Maybe you are one of those who simply gets 'too much' signal, which can cause freeze-ups due to overloading! 85% is the max signal strength recommended for HD. Richard, Norwich.
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Tuesday, 19 July 2016
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nick11:39 PM
thanks, Richard, but would think if that were so it would be all the time, whereas my problem is weather related, and the signal and quality drop to zero.
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Wednesday, 20 July 2016
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StevensOnln111:17 AM
nick: Having too much signal can cause the tuner to become overloaded and appear to have no signal. If you are seeing 100% during normal conditions then you already have the maximum amount of signal the tuner can handle. Try fitting an attenuator such as one from the link below to reduce the amount of signal reaching the tuner. There are also 6db, 9db and 12db versions which can be connected together in any combination to reduce the signal further if required. I have a 3db connected to my main TV which has successfully stopped breakup I was experiencing on some of the HD channels.
3dB Coax Plug Inline ATTENUATOR: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics
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Thursday, 4 August 2016
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Steve Goodey11:39 AM
BBC FOUR HD has now appeared on Sudbury.
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Richard Cooper11:43 AM
Steve Goodey: Hi, Steve. That's nice for you. I think they may have done it just before the Olympic (Summer) Games 2016 open. Richard, Norwich.
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