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Freeview Light on the Bramford (Suffolk, England) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Bramford (Suffolk, England) transmitter which serves less than 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 Bramford (Suffolk, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Bramford 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C27 (522.0MHz)49mDTG-4W
Channel icons
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
C24 (498.0MHz)49mDTG-4W
Channel icons
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
C21+ (474.2MHz)49mDTG-4W
Channel icons
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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Bramford (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 Bramford transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 64km north (10°)
to BBC East region - 27 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
regional news image
ITV Anglia News 0.8m homes 3.2%
from NORWICH NR1 3JG, 64km north (10°)
to ITV Anglia (East) region - 26 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (West)

How will the Bramford (Suffolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-1331 Mar 2018-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C21BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCBBBCB
C24ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C27BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C31C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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 10W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-4dB) 4W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Tacolneston transmitter area

Oct 1959-Feb 2004Anglia Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Bramford was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
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frank tunstall
10:33 AM
Ipswich

ip8 3aj has limited freeview coverage from bramford transmitter 18 chanels only no itv3 itv 4 or espn through my bt vision. Is ther going to be any further updates or will i have to go sattellite

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Dave Lindsay
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10:36 AM

frank tunstall: Assuming that your aerial is directed at Sudbury, then the Commercial channels should hopefully become available to you on 27th June when their transmission power is to that of the Public Service ones.

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Dave Lindsay
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10:52 AM

frank tunstall: Sorry, I see you specifically referred to Bramford transmitter. The answer is no, the Commercial operators aren't likely to ever transmit from there. They use about 80 of the largest (by viewer population) transmission sites in the country from which they achieve coverage of 90% of the population.

They were invited to increase that coverage and declined. To broadcast from the 1000 or so relays not included would roughly double their costs of transmission.

See Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for a fuller explanation.

The predictor suggests that you might be able to receive directly from Tacolneston. There are houses on High Street that have aerials on Tacolneston.

Of course, assuming that there aren't any trees that might be an issue, an aerial on top of the three storey flats in which you reside would mean that the aerial is higher up (assuming that you or an installer acting on your behalf has access).

That does beg the question, if you have a communal aerial, why does it point at Bramford and not Tacolneston (or Sudbury) ?

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Tuesday, 31 January 2017
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Ken
7:46 AM
Ipswich

Hi. I cannot get the Freeview HD channels on two of my 3 tvs. I am in IP8 3BW, only a few hundered metres from Bramford relay transmitter. I can see the transmitter from my roof, and my wideband roof aerial points directly at it. The downlead from the aerial enters my Sky + digibox "aerial in" and I have one RF out connected to my main Samung tv, and the second two tvs (Hitachi and Toshiba) are connected to the RF 2 out via a passive aerial splitter. On the main Samsung tv, i get a strong to very strong signal on all 3 Freeview channels: 21, 24 and 27. On the other two I get a strong to very strong signal on channels 24 and 27 but no signal on channel 21. The output from my Sky box is currently on channel 43 - I found that using a lower channel caused picture interference when watching Freeview with the Sky box on. Would an attentuator help?

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Sunday, 20 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
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2:20 PM

BRAMFORD transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 20 Oct 12:57 until 20 Oct 13:38. . [BBC]

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