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 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
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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Wednesday, 10 January 2018
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Ian5:40 PM
Looks like many others are having the same problem, and it does seem to be pointing to a BBC issue
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Saturday, 13 January 2018
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HIlary Woodward2:53 PM
Once again no TV reception at all (Bad or no signal) for three nights last week as located in a reception "dip". Had to watch TV on computer.
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StevensOnln16:09 PM
HIlary Woodward: Did you read or act on any of the replies to your previous post a year ago? No one else is reporting any problems with the transmitter so you need to look for a fault in your aerial system. Complaining about it online won't do anything to fix the problem if you don't act on the advice given.
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Monday, 15 January 2018
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Ian8:38 PM
A new breakthrough today. Done a re-tune for all channels, and BBCFourHD (106), has now come through on Channel 37 Com 8, and is recording fine. (All the rest of the channels that have come through on the original Com 7, still won't record, but nothing of interest on those anyway).
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Wednesday, 17 January 2018
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hardy3:31 PM
here is an interesting website where you can check the quality and reliability of tv signal that you are likely to receive at any given post code . You can see from Tacolneston that there is a retune required in February 2018 and one in april. The changes are due to frequencies above 700mhz being given over to mobile phone use. Digital UK | Clearance events in 2018
The channels marked orange are not guaranteed to always give 100% perfect reception . But as Mike remarked it has always been difficult to provide perfect reception in ALL parts of Norfolk ALL the time for genuine technical reasons .
I also note that in most areas a wideband aerial is the best future proof choice but in difficult areas after april I think I would recommend a group B aerial
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MikeP
11:40 PM
11:40 PM
Hardy:
That is a useful website that some of us contributors already use. If people put their post code into this website one of the blue boxes underneath their posting is a link to the digitaluk website with the information relevant to the given post code. Used together with the reception prediction and the terrain information, it is very useful for us to offer suitable advice specific to a given location.
The use of a Group B aerial only applies to some areas as others use higher or lower frequencies and will continue to do so for some years. It is better to use a Log-Periodic aerial that is able to cover all the forseen frequencies, they are sufficiently directional to eliminate most extraneous signals and sufficient gain (if you choose the correct one for the reception area) so most will not need an amplifier, though some will if they are some distance from their chosen transmitter.
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Thursday, 18 January 2018
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Mardler 9:19 PM
It appears that channel switching is already happening.
We can no longer receive BBC 4 HD.
A retune is necessary: you didn't warn of this, why not? Or did you?
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Mardler 9:35 PM
BBC 4 HD Tacolneston is no longer being broadcast!
A retune does not work. The same message comes up: the channel has moved.
What on Earth is going on?!
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M
Mardler 10:01 PM
Found the channel has moved to 106.
Nothing available on the internet so far as I can see.
TV interface also totally changed and no longer intuitive.
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StevensOnln111:28 PM
Mardler : BBC Four HD has always been on channel 106 since it launched on Freeview. Last week it moved from the COM7 multiplex to COM8 (see the link below for details). This website has no connection with either the BBC or any other broadcaster or transmitter company. We cannot give you advanced warning of a channel moving when we don't know about it ourselves until it happens in most cases and we certainly can't warn you unless you happen to visit this website after we become aware of the change.
Freeview changes for BBC Four HD and CBeebies HD - a516digital
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