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.
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, 8 March 2018
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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
H
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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Saturday, 31 March 2018
M
Mardler9:02 PM
Once again the Tacolneston transmitter is down on several channels.
I can guarantee the response from the people who run this site will be there is no problem, it's your installation which is utter tosh so are there any properly knowledgeable people here who have a reliable source of information?
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StevensOnln111:04 PM
Mardler: If the transmitter was really down, lost of people would be complaining. Have you checked with any neighbours if they are experiencing the same loss of channels on Freeview?
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Sunday, 1 April 2018
M
Mardler8:00 PM
Down for a spell yesterday, low power today.
Elsewhere I see that Tacolneston is giving a weak signal into next week.
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hardy8:21 PM
Hi Mardler . Yes . it really is the transmitter this week. The HD signal is reduced during preparation work for the next channel change . I believe I am near you (Mundesley) but don't seem to have had as much reception problems as yourself . I only saw trouble on UHF channel 31 during periods of summer high pressure. I use an amplified log aerial.
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Monday, 2 April 2018
M
Mardler9:26 PM
Yup, BBC 4 very bad tonight.
The next changes won't be good.
Time to go FreeSat.
System here is a high gain E aerial (Labgear) with amplifier also Labgear IIRC. Splitter at wall socket.
We used to have a reliable aerial guy but he's retired. Most are utter cowboys: elderly neighbour had a new TV aerial - vertically polarised! Installer also said she needed a new radio aerial so fitted a DAB: she has FM no DAB!
Any recommendations?
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