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 04/12/2023 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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Tuesday, 16 October 2012
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Nick9:30 PM
Aldeburgh
Whatever anyone says, I believe the Sudbury transmitter has problems with the channels outside the old analogue channels, whatever the aerial and particularly if you are not on the doorstep of the transmitter. The mux using channel 60 is dreadful. Whilst the one on channel 58 can give near 100% sig strength and quality, I look at what happens on ch 60. The quality flashes within milliseconds between 90% and zero. They need to look at it.
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012
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jb3812:14 AM
Nick: The most likely reason for the quality flash you refer to is that some moving object has reflected the signal, and with this most likely being a high (or in certain cases not so!) flying aircraft.
As a matter of fact this effect can be seen on most TV's / boxes that offer a quality as well as strength indication, because if a mux channel number of a known distant station is entered into the search box on a sets manual tune facility (only entering and "not" scanning) and with the strength / quality bars being viewed over a few minutes, the effect that you observed can frequently be seen to occur and for the reason explained.
You may (or may not) already know this, but entering a mux channel number into a manual tune facility box but NOT scanning causes the tuner to act like a form of signal meter and is likewise free of threshold level restrictions whereby it will show signal levels far too low to produce a picture, this being why should a subsequent scan be carried out some people might be a bit mystified as to why nothing was picked up even although they had observed signal levels being shown, the reason for being that as soon as "search" or "scan" is activated the threshold level restrictions part of the circuitry jump in.
As far as Ch60 is concerned, I have a element of sympathy with you concerning this type of problem, albeit that you are outside of the coverage area, as ever since Sandy Heath switched over I, and many others have had the same type of problem on ArqA Ch52 (and only that channel) whereby its constantly under the reception threshold level on all of my equipment, and with me having a strong suspicion that there might possibly be a slight angular misalignment on the the panel aerial thats used to serve the NW sector of the mast such as I am located in, as mobile tests I have carried out have proven that the problem seems to affect a span area of about 65 degrees or so in roughly the W / NW area from the mast.
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Nick8:39 PM
Aldeburgh
Thank you, JB, I have missed you.
I maintain that there is a problem with Sudburys ch 60, and have been trying to find out who to report it to. The BBC, not that it is one of theirs, did not even bother to reply.
I know that I repeat myself, but Aldeburgh, in a high location, could even sometimes get the former low power 3kw transmissions on ch 63, and currently all other muxes are high in quality and strength, yes, they change a little as you watch the readings, but do not flash from zero to 90. I wish I could locate the right department to correct this fault.
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Thursday, 18 October 2012
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Kevin Hodges8:53 AM
Nick, that's a strange one. Here in Chelmsford I pick up all the mux's (including ch60) without problem. Purely a guess but could it be something to do with the radiation pattern of Sudbury?
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Nick6:54 PM
Aldeburgh
Could be Kevin, but the radiation pattern should be the same for all muxes. You are closer to the xmitter. I still think there is a problem, just with this mux, as I can get all manner of transmitters with the aerial turned, including Dover, but that is no good for local news.
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Now that we have completed DSO and all transmitters are at their full running power, if I swing my aerial around Wide Band High Gain would I get Bluebell or Dover as well as I get Sudbury? My PC is CO77GD
Thnx
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Pete Dilloway9:47 PM
My father in law who lives in postcode CM3 has recently lost BBC1 & 2 (poss others) but is certainly getting ITV's etc on his two TV's & Humax PVR.
Two or three retunes have not resolved the problem.
Any clues anyone.
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Pete Dilloway9:48 PM
I forgot to add that he is tuned to Sudbury
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jb3811:55 PM
Steve: Very unlikely! as both stations mentioned give predictions for your location with a mixture of "poor / variable" or not at all, and with the only channels that doesn't being Dover and Crystal Palaces HD service, albeit that you didnt actually mention the latter.
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Friday, 19 October 2012
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pete7:47 PM
Further to my earlier two posts, the whole BBCA Mux is missing.
Could it be a problem requiring an initial set up re-tune to get rid of a legacy background signal from London which is pretty strong in this area?
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