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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 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C44 (658.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
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
 H max
C41 (634.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
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
 H max
C47 (682.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
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

COM4
SDN
 H max
C29 (538.0MHz)186mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H max
C31- (553.8MHz)228mDTG-8100,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H max
C37 (602.0MHz)228mDTG-8100,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
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
regional news image
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 WestTransposer1000 homes +1000 or more homes due to expansion of affected area?
WithamTransposer14 km NE Chelmsford.118 homes

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

1984-971997-981998-20112011-131 Aug 2018
B E TB E TB E TE TK T
C29SDN
C31ArqA
C35C5wavesC5waves
C37ArqB
C41ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C44BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C47C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCB
C51tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C56tv_offArqB
C58tv_offSDN
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

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. Sudbury 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.

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Saturday, 16 March 2013
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Nick
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10:47 PM

Thank you, JB, I will do your tests.
Did you have any conclusions re the sound buzz with small tvs/ brightness etc?

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Sunday, 17 March 2013
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jb38
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8:32 AM

Nick: Sorry, meant to add this to my reply.

However, put simply as it can involve a lengthy explanation, but what you refer to is actually something that was quite frequently heard in a large number of older CRT sets of the somewhat less costly types when the contrast was set on the high side, and with the problem basically being caused by poor design of the power supply allowing the effects of the "maximum current drawing" white level pulses of the video signal to be introduced into the audio circuitry by insufficient levels of filtering, this being why you hear the buzz level changing with the content of the picture.

This type of problem was not really noticed quite so much when the TV was being used for analogue reception via an aerial as the sets auto-gain circuitry kept this level under an element of control, but when a video signal is being fed into the set via the scart socket this control is bypassed thereby placing the circuitry at the mercy of the incoming signal level, and because a Freeview boxes video output is not adjustable in the same way as can be done with a Sky box (three choices of contrast) the only way of compensating for this is on the TV is by reducing the contrast level of the picture, unfortunately on some sets this resulting in the picture having a slight wishy-washy appearance.

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Nick
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7:57 PM

Thanks JB,
seems not to affect bigger sets, and even Sony trinitron portables buzz via scart.

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jb38
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8:58 PM

Nick: Possibly not, but as I previously mentioned it is something that is not exactly uncommon if the intensity of the buzz varies with the content of the signal but somewhat subsides if the TV's contrast is reduced, because if it doesnt then the problem can be caused by defective earth continuity between both devices (try another scart lead) or possibly a dry joint on the ground connection from the rear of the boxes scart socket to PCB (or even on the PCB) as in that case the buzz heard "is" the video signal and not a representation of it as applies in the case of a poorly designed power supply.




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Nick
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10:48 PM

thanks JB,
This problem seems common to several small tvs, scart leads and boxes I have tried, and avoidable only with boxes which will feed via aerial, including my Digital Vision AD-BEAV....which brings me to yet another problem. That box is useful as it can connect via the aerial. However, the speech is often slurred and slow, as if drunk, or a 45 rpm record playing at 33. It is remedied by switching it off at the mains once or twice. Any ideas please?

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Friday, 22 March 2013
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Alexa
9:40 PM
Aldeburgh

at 11pm EVERY night my signal is lost until the next day. no amount of re-tuning works.can anyone offer an explanation?

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Nick
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11:54 PM

Alexa, whereabouts, roughly, in A? Are you on the Aldeburgh tx, limited channels, or Sudbury?

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Saturday, 23 March 2013
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jb38
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12:01 AM

Alexa: Does the aerial system being used belong to you or are you on some form of communal system? although should it be yours then if you have any form of booster installed then it has possibly been accidentally connected into a mains supply thats used a timed circuit such as communal lighting or cheap off peak electricity.

Have you made any enquiries with your neighbours to determine as to whether or not the problem is solely confined to yourself? or that others are being similarly affected?

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Nick
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7:38 AM

JB,
do you have any idea about the slurred speech on one of my boxes, please?
Sound has now gone on tvonics box, replaced scarts etc, def the box. That did not last long.

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12:21 PM

Nick: If you are referring to slurred speech in the same way as say a slowed down gramophone record, then to be perfectly honest about it its something that I have never at any time experienced with digital equipment, stuttering speech yes! but not anything that could be described as an analogue type slur.

If you have completely reset the box then that's about the only thing that you can do, however I believe that software updates were available for some models although I am not able to check on this as I am unaware of the model you are referring to, although as the company went into administration the link I am thinking about may no longer exist.

Anyway, if you come back with the model number of the PVR in question I will have a check.

By the way, the undermentioned link is for a company that any enquiries concerning TVOnics devices should be addressed to, clicking on "contact us" seen on the left hand side of the page.


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