Full Freeview on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter._______
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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Thursday, 22 February 2018
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hardy9:30 PM
Its optimistic to try to get UHF channel 56 from Aldeburgh . Its in a shadow relative to the Tacelston signal. And needs a good horizontally polarised aerial. Probably a group CD group K or high gain wideband. Wheras you should have a strong signal from the local Alderburgh relay transmitter which requires a vertically polarised group A aerial. (of course the relay does not carry com7 or com8 so I can see why you might try for Tacolneston)
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Tuesday, 27 February 2018
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Chris W9:12 AM
Saxmundham
Thanks for the feedback. I should have clarified that I was talking about getting the Channel 56 signal from Tacolneston from my location which is about halfway between Aldeburgh and Saxmundham. I am currently using a Televes DAT45 aerial which is quite high gain. Annoyingly my Sony Bravia TV will extract a stable signal from Channel 56 but my brand-new BT YouView box won't. I don't know whether a more expensive Humax box would do better?
It seems to me that it's a job not completed if despite all the channel reorganisation some channels will still have only limited reception!
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hardy11:47 AM
Chris I get channel 56 on a humax youview box fine with a log aerial plus amplifier at 20 miles from Tacolneston. A DAt45 aerial has a higher gain at 56 so should be ok at your location with an amplifier (30 miles?) Its true that some tvs/boxes are more sensitive than others.
by "amplifier" I mean a proper one mounted next to the aerial not a cheap indoor one.
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Thursday, 8 March 2018
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Stephen4:51 PM
Great Yarmouth
NR31 9NE. I seem to have lost UHF channel 37 (BT Showcase). Any suggestions
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hardy6:21 PM
UHF channel 37 carried COM8 channels . Com 8 was moved to channel 56 at the end of February . A retune should find it . The future plan is to put com7 on 55 and com8 on 56 on (I think) all transmitters that currently transmit com7 and 8 .
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Stephen7:06 PM
Stephen: I have re-tuned, without aerial and then with. I can receive UHF55 but not UHF56. I am on a communal aerial and don't kniw what type.
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StevensOnln18:35 PM
Stephen: Have you checked if any of your neighbours who use the same communal aerial are successfully receiving COM8? Have you contacted whoever is responsible for maintaining the communal system? They may need to modify it following the frequency changes as many communal aerial distribution systems have filters to block unwanted transmitters, which may now need changing.
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Sunday, 11 March 2018
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hardy3:53 PM
StevensOnln1: some modern aerials have lower sensitivity at ch56 in anticipation of a future further reduction of frequencies . They might be ok at the moment for 55 because the power transmitted is much higher than that for com8 on 56. When com 7 moves to channel 55 it also will be on low power.
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Friday, 23 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
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TACOLNESTON transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Weak Signal; DSO related from 11:48 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 12:32 yesterday to 15:13 yesterday. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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TACOLNESTON transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Weak Signal; DSO related from 11:48 today to 14:24 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 12:32 yesterday to 15:13 yesterday. [BBC]
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