Freeview Light on the Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England) transmitter which serves 9,500 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 Aldeburgh (Suffolk, 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 Aldeburgh (Suffolk, 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, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, 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, 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 Aldeburgh 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 | V max | C28 (530.0MHz) | 87m | DTG- | 10,000W |
 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 | V max | C23 (490.0MHz) | 87m | DTG- | 10,000W |
 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), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C25 (506.0MHz) | 87m | DTG- | 10,000W |
 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 Aldeburgh (Suffolk, 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, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, 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, 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 Aldeburgh transmitter?
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 53km north-northwest (337°)
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, 53km north-northwest (337°)
to ITV Anglia (East) region - 26 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (West)
How will the Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 31 Mar 2018- | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
| C5 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C25 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C28 | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C30 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 10kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Tacolneston transmitter area
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Monday, 27 June 2011
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nick9:37 AM
Nick: Jo, I have been asking that. It serves a wide area but intends to give us Rabbit and Gay Rabbit instead of ITV4 and 3.
The powers that be need a rocket.
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Mike Dimmick5:41 PM
Nicks: As text services, Rabbit and Gay Rabbit take very little space. Certainly not enough space to provide even one TV channel - possibly not enough to even carry one radio station.
The ITV1 +1 and Channel 4+1 channels are the most wasteful on there, but the infrastructure for carrying regional content only exists on D3&4 - they would have trouble providing regional variations (minimal as they are: on C4 just the advertising is regional) on a commercial multiplex.
Legally, the ITV companies and C4 are required to carry the regional ITV service and Channel 4, Channel 5 and S4C in Wales. After that they are permitted to carry whatever *of their own services* they like on their half of the multiplex.
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Mike Dimmick5:49 PM
Jo Drury: It comes down to money. The commercial multiplex operators didn't want to spend any more on transmitting from any additional sites. The regulator had been prepared to negotiate for 200 sites (currently, the commercial operators broadcast from 81 sites) in the international co-ordination meeting in Geneva in 2006, but the operators declined the option.
The Aldeburgh relay may not be your best option in this area, though as you say the coverage area is quite large. If you provide a full postcode we can check whether a six-multiplex service is available from another transmitter.
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Tuesday, 5 July 2011
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nick1:14 PM
nick: Brian, I have been trying my digibox in Aldeburgh using the Aldeburgh aerial, just to see if there was anything out there. 4 Dutch channels, A1 reception.
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Sunday, 17 July 2011
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
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jane maxim12:55 PM
Leiston
I have a freeview tv and today I retuned and recieved some bbc digital channels and itv and bbc1 analogue, this was explained on switchover that until 23rd I have to go between the two. Now I have no channels found on either, is there a problem with transmitter?
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jane's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
june maxim: See the posting above yours entitled "Transmitter engineering".
Also, Digital UK website says that Aldeburgh is expected to be up and running by mid-afternoon:
Digital UK - Relay transmitter switching times (DN31NJ)
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Wednesday, 23 November 2011
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mark9:33 PM
when will people viewing on aldeburgh transmiter get all the freeview chanels
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Mark Fletcher11:15 PM
Halifax
Mark.No,that is it as far as the Aldeburgh relay is concerned.Only the public service broadcasts BBCA,D3+4,BBCB (HD) multiplexes will transmit.There will be no commercial broadcast multiplexes SDN,ArqA,ArqB on this mast,not now not ever but never !
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby11:16 PM
mark: It is most unlikely that the COM muxes will ever be transmitted from Aldeburgh. The owners of the muxes do not consider that it would be cost effective to extend coverage to relay sites. It is worth noting that the power of the COM muxes at Tacolneston and (from June 2012) Sudbury, is 100kW which is four times what would have normally been considered for the COM muxes at a transmitter site which used to have the analogue services at 250kW.
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