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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Thursday, 22 November 2018
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P Haystead 9:38 PM
For last few weeks I have been unable to get hd on my smart tv all programmes are good quality picture but if I try to put on to hd the picture totally breaks up also have tried many times to sign in to Bbc I player I follow the instructions but it will not complete the process can you help please Postcode is NR204NH
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Friday, 23 November 2018
MikeP
10:51 AM
10:51 AM
P Haystead :
Have you had your aerial changed to a wideband type? Tacolnston uses channels 39 to 56 and many of the older Group B aerials are not very good for the COM7 or COM8 channels. Also check your aerial system cables and connections in case there is water getting into the cables or there are poor connections in the plugs/sockets due to corrosion/oxidation. Further, check what signal; strength is being reported by your television on the affected HD channels. Ideally you need the strength to be between 60% and 85%, any more or less with give the problems you are reporting.
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Sunday, 25 November 2018
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hardy7:51 PM
At that location there should be a very strong signal . Almost any outdoor aerial should work . Though these days a log (wideband) aerial would be recommended if installing new in a good signal area. I think there is a fault in your present aerial its cable or plugs . The loss of signal is why you cant get HD which requires a slightly higher signal quality than standard tv.
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Thursday, 29 November 2018
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Jeremy12:23 PM
Diss
Does the Talconiston transmitter transmit HD channels? My TV is HD ready and yet there are none in the channel list . My postcode is IP22 2SD .
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Jeremy's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln15:11 PM
Jeremy: All Freeview transmitters broadcast HD channels. HD Ready only refers to the screen being able to show a picture from a HD source and does not indicate that your TV has a DVB-T2 tuner necessary to receive HD channels on Freeview. If this is the case you could purchase a Freeview HD box and connect it to your TV via HDMI cable to receive HD channels.
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Saturday, 8 December 2018
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Mardler10:01 PM
At 20.01 tonight ALL Tacolneston stations disappeared.
The high power muxes are now back.
The Com7&8 muxes are still dead.
Aerial system checked, upgraded and perfect three weeks ago with very strong Com7&8 QS and s/s.
This is a transmitter fault so please report on that: it is NOT our aerial system.
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Mardler10:04 PM
I should have said that the Tacolneston transmitter most definitely had a serious 100% outage at 20.01.
If you can't admit that and instead blame my, perfect, aerial system again I shall have no more time for you at all (especially as your transmitter data is now hopelessly out of date).
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StevensOnln111:01 PM
Mardler: No one on this website has anything to do with any broadcaster or transmitter company, therefore no one here can confirm if there was a transmitter fault unless a transmitter engineering post appears (which are sourced from a BBC Engineering feed). One thing I can say is that you're the only person reporting a problem at Tacolneston on this website today, whereas if the transmitter was completely off air there would be hundreds of people complaining. Perhaps you could explain how you know for certain that the transmitter went off air? Did you check with any neighbours if they lost the same channels as you did? What tests have you undertaken to support your claim that your aerial system is "perfect"? Have you considered that you might be suffering from some form of local electrical interference?
Also, Briantist has recently put in a lot of effort to update transmitter data (in case you weren't aware, this website is run by one person who has put in a huge amount of effort over the years and doesn't always have time available to carry out updates as quickly as people might like).
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Sunday, 9 December 2018
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david10:06 AM
not sure if it's related to the posts above but this morning there is no TV guide on ITV HD (103).....SD is OK from Tacolneston
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Tuesday, 11 December 2018
M
Mardler 11:35 AM
StevensOnin1: your reply is the usual unhelpful response.
Since my initial post I have been reliably informed that there have been several faults at Tacolneston for example it was off air for a short time on the 4th , yesterday there were three faults logged and today four.
My aerial system was upgraded and fully tested. It IS near perfect (there is room for a little improvement for Com7&8 but the post upgrade metering showed excellent performance so we didn't bother and anyway this might entail too strong a signal on the high power muxes). The simple TV meter is now rock solid 10/10 on the high power muxes but Com7&8 are considerably down on the initial post upgrade levels.
I know for certain that the transmitter was off air because everything went off and a similar fault happened on the 4th. The high power muxes came back slowly, btw: this is also indicative of a transmitter problem.
There is no local interference.
Your assertion that no-one else has mentioned the fault is spurious.
As for the history of this site, I know all of that. However it remains out of date. The comments page remains hopelessly ineffective yet I gave details of far better options to the owner years ago, advice that he took no notice of. It has the basis of being useful but more up to date information is available elsewhere together with a sensible approach to enquiries.
Instead of flatly denying any problems and treating people (some of whom know more about the subject than you think) like imbeciles you might look at such reports as interesting and worth investigating instead of your usual, standard wording, outright dismissal.
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