Full Freeview on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter which serves 440,000 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 Sudbury (Suffolk, England) mast?
Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/11/2024 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Sudbury (Suffolk, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Sudbury 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Sudbury (Suffolk, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Sudbury transmitter?
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 77km north-northeast (24°)
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, 78km north-northeast (24°)
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?
| Felixstowe West | Transposer | 1000 homes +1000 or more homes due to expansion of affected area? | |
| Witham | Transposer | 14 km NE Chelmsford. | 118 homes |
How will the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 1 Aug 2018 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | K T | |||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C56tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C58tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | -ArqA |
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?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 100kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-7dB) 50kW | |
| Mux 2* | (-14.9dB) 8.1kW | |
| Mux B* | (-15.2dB) 7.5kW | |
| Mux 1* | (-15.5dB) 7kW | |
| Mux A* | (-17dB) 5kW | |
| Mux C* | (-22.2dB) 1.5kW | |
| Mux D* | (-23.6dB) 1.1kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sudbury transmitter area
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Monday, 4 March 2013
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KMJ,Derby4:29 PM
peter parker: Is that a daily problem with C60 or one which became apparent today? If the latter the tropospheric ducting forecast for midday today shows a fair chance of ducting in Suffolk, which could result in interference from out of area transmissions. Conditions should return to normal later today.
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Thursday, 7 March 2013
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Nick11:26 PM
Dave, Nick has another problem. He goes away a few days, returns and finds his box has lost all the BBC channels but none of the others and has to retune. Please, any ideas?
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Friday, 8 March 2013
Nick: I was going to suggest that you wait until the BBC programmes are shown on Dave, but maybe not.
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Sunday, 10 March 2013
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Nick10:57 PM
OK, Dave, sense of humour appreciated. Only the BBC channels disappear.
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jb3811:37 PM
Nick: When you say that you find you have lost all of the BBC channels, are you meaning that although they are still seen listed in the EPG listings when one is selected it results in a blank screen, or is it the case that they have disappeared from the EPG listings?
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013
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Nick6:49 PM
JB, when I press channel one, it says '1,' but is blank.
I am also puzzled by the fact that I am currently not getting pixellation, or something similar, ie a few small 'boxes' briefly dotting the screen now and then on the two strongest muxes, ITV and BBC. If you recall it was suggested this paterning could be the effect of too large a signal since erecting an almighty aerial, at height, with 28 db booster, to pull in the naff mux on c60
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jb387:53 PM
Nick: In that case you should use the manual tuning procedure on mux Ch44 (BBC1) but NOT pressing search or scan after having entered the channel number, because if the signal is actually weak it will generally be indicated as such accompanied by varying quality, whereas if the signal is over the top then its liable to indicate 100% strength but with zero quality.
At least thats whats indicated on most devices when operating in these type of situations, although not guaranteed to be applicable in every case as its dependant on the equipment being used.
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Thursday, 14 March 2013
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Nick6:39 PM
JB,
if I was using the Icecrypt box this would be useful, but I am using the pvr, Tvonics which does not have signal strength/quality bars, just sig qual which always says 'very good,' and sig level where the bar is always solid green.
Would you have any idea why periodically I lose these channels on the tuner? I switch the box off at the mains at night, but only the BBC channels, and occasionally the ITV channels disappear.
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jb388:43 PM
Nick: TVonics is one of these brands that does lend itself to being used for experiments, and in your type of situation this is a must!
However with reference to your query, what is the model number of your PVR, and if it only has auto-tuning and not manual as well, then during an auto-tune can you see the names of the programmes being picked up? or if not then does it show a progress bar during the scan? as there is a test I would like you to try but this is dependant on the answers to the aforementioned questions.
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