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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


Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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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
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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.

Comments
Saturday, 23 March 2013
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Nick
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5:49 PM

JB, the tvonics pvr, which has lost its sound, is DTR2250
The box with the slurred speech, which appears slow and deeper voice yet pic is in sync, is Digital Vision AD BEAV
Which of these two companies is in administration?
Many thanks

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7:20 PM

Nick: Thanks for the clarification on that, and in answer to your question its TVonics.

Will check up on both devices mentioned.

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Sunday, 24 March 2013
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Nick
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8:20 AM

Thanks JB,
I went on that pulse site and told them what I think of their product.

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Saturday, 6 April 2013
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Nick
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7:56 AM

where has JB gone?

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jb38
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11:54 PM

Nick: Should you be referring to me then I am still around, but though with this being totally dependant on work commitments and which may at times involve me working over night at short notice should I be required to assist some other engineer, as indeed has recently applied.

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Sunday, 7 April 2013
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Nick
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7:46 AM

Understood, JB. Just wondered if you had managed to find info on the two devices.
Kind regards.

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Wednesday, 10 April 2013
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Kevin Hodges
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2:13 PM
Chelmsford

This is boring. No Engineering works, no re-tunes required and all muxes received loud and clear. What is a man to do?

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4:59 PM

Nick ; Apologies for delay in replying, but with regards to the answer to your question, although I did make enquiries / checks on the database during my usual Friday stint at the service depot it didn't actually reveal anything more than I already knew, insomuch that the only action you can take that might hopefully rectify the problem complained of is by carrying out a software update on the box, but though with major stumbling block to carrying this action out being the fact of every web link associated with TVonics software updates being inoperable.

This somewhat leaving the situation in limbo, as the only chance that anyone would have of being able to update their box is if some TVonics enthusiast (as they do exist!) had made personal copies of the completed downloads prior to the companies link having been broken, however no amount of searching by me has as yet been able to find anyone that could maybe oblige, and so the situation does not look very promising.

Apart from that though, maybe you could inform me as to the software version fitted in your particular model, as this would enable me to cross check it against others in the series thereby giving me an idea of the level your box is sitting at, the software version installed in your box being found by pressing: Menu / Service / Manufacturers details.

As far as the other box (AD-BEAV) referred to is concerned, unfortunately its really a case of grinning and bearing it as no info was seen mentioned about this model, therefore with it being assumed that no fixes are available for this device, the link below when opened giving an example of the prices that these boxes were being sold off at, or at least attempted to as the only offer I seen was half of the asking price.


Digital Vision Freeview Box AD-BEAV with Twin Scart | 78907 | Stockshifters



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Nick
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11:33 PM

Thank you, JB.
I will have a look for the software version on the tvonics box and get back to you....so in layman's terms, there might not be a faulty component making it lose sound, it just needs updating but such would be difficult?
I do not understand why these modern devices need to be updated just to keep them doing the basic things they were purchased for.
Next door is a freesat box, it comes up with all sorts of reasons why it won't go, mostly lies, but that one is easy to fix, just switch off at mains.

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Friday, 26 April 2013
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Nick
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8:12 AM

JB, apologies for the delay.
Software version.
V1.3.A1208.M1319

One day the sound worked, the next not. Scarts played with, replaced, no effect.

Thanks.

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