Freeview Light on the Clacton (Essex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Clacton (Essex, England) transmitter. 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 Clacton (Essex, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Clacton (Essex, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Clacton 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.
Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
PSB1 BBCA | H max | C49 (698.0MHz) | 47m | DTG- | 400W |
1 BBC One (SD) East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others | |||||
PSB2 D3+4 | H max | C52 (722.0MHz) | 47m | DTG- | 400W |
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Anglia (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Anglia east), | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | H max | C42 (642.0MHz) | 47m | DTG- | 400W |
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others |
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Clacton (Essex, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Clacton transmitter?
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 92km north (2°)
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, 92km north (3°)
to ITV Anglia (East) region - 26 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (West)
How will the Clacton (Essex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||||
A B C/D E K T VHF | A B C/D E K T VHF | A B C/D E K T VHF | B E T | B E T | |||||
C40 | SDN | ||||||||
C42 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
C49tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
C52tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 |
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?
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 400W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sudbury transmitter area
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Monday, 30 December 2019
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P . O ‘shea1:28 PM
My tv kept breaking up ,not only on my freeview Channels ,but my main channels also.
Would I be better to get a new aerial or am I wasting my money?? Can anyone answer me?
Thank you!
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Chris.SE2:24 PM
All:
This may be a repeat post as I've tried posting this already and it's not appearing -
There are unusually high levels of "Tropospheric propagation" at present, often associated with High Pressure weather systems.
These levels of propagation are unusual at this time of year - they cause signals from more distant transmitters to travel a lot further than normal. It is currently affecting different parts of the country by varying degrees and signals can change by the second or remain stable for much longer periods.
In the old "analogue" days there was a lot of talk about "continental" interference often in the summer months, but the interference can come from transmitters anywhere in the UK or Europe and even further afield. At the moment some people are getting DAB radio from the Netherlands and FM Radio from France as well as the interference to DTV.
It is predicted to continue for a couple more days, and you are advise NOT to retune as you will likely lose the correct tuning that you had. The "propagation" can be very frequency dependent, and it can only affected one frequency or several, but it can/will be different for others.
People will however have noticed the unusually mild weather which the Met office is referring to as a "Foehn effect" but it's not helpful that it seems none of the major broadcasters are making any reference to the interference being caused to TV and Radio reception! So it's no surprise that people wonder what is going on and think there is a transmitter problem.
For those that have retuned and lost correct tuning, you will have to try again and it could be hit and miss whilst the unusual propagation continues. If you are able to do a manual tune for the correct UHF channels, you may still receive interference or the wrong programmes.
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Tuesday, 12 May 2020
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Chris.SE2:47 PM
Felixstowe
A further reminder -
Clacton is no longer a "Light" transmitter as of 1st August 2018, it now broadcasts the 6 main muxes.
PSB1(BBCA) - UHF32; PSB2(D3&4) - UHF34; PSB3(BBCB HD) - UHF45; SDN - UHF40; ARQA - UHF43; ARQB - UHF46. 400W for each Mux. Aerial group K, Horizontal.
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Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 PM
7:28 PM
CLACTON transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 20 Sep 11:38 until 20 Sep 12:07. Off the air due to a fault from 22 Jul 01:15 until 22 Jul 01:49. Off the air due to a fault from 8 May 09:50 until 8 May 10:08. . [BBC]
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Saturday, 1 August 2020
Transmitter engineering
9:27 PM
9:27 PM
CLACTON transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 1 Aug 20:18 until 1 Aug 20:21. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:27 PM
4:27 PM
CLACTON transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 13 Oct 16:33 until 13 Oct 16:40. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Transmitter engineering
1:28 PM
1:28 PM
CLACTON transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 20 Oct 11:43 until 20 Oct 12:02. . [BBC]
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Monday, 2 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:29 PM
4:29 PM
CLACTON transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 2 Nov 13:52 until 2 Nov 15:10. . [BBC]
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Saturday, 16 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
CLACTON transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 16 Jan 09:56. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
CLACTON transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 16 Jan 09:56 until 16 Jan 10:39. . [BBC]
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