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 18/11/2024 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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Sunday, 8 June 2014
Thursday, 19 June 2014
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Jod7:16 AM
Braintree
Hello Guys
My free view in my TV has suddenly lost most of its channels
I am only able to see channels on COM5 all of the others are missing following re-tune and full restart
Is it likely my aerial needs looking at as Sudbury report no issues
Post code cm7 4ld
Thanks
Jod
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Monday, 18 August 2014
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Kevin Hodges9:40 AM
I see that the DigitalUK site is saying there's a 're-tune event' on 3rd September. Can anybody give any reasons for this please? Thanks Kevin
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Wednesday, 3 September 2014
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robp9:30 PM
Bury St. Edmunds
Have done the September 3rd retune, Sudbury transmitter, but now have no signal on channels 58, 60 & 56. Is this a known problem?
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robp's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Neil9:40 PM
robp: Have just completed a DTV retune (Sept 3) and have lost BBC4 HD and several other channels (especially HD ones are now subject to freezing). Is there a problem with the upgrade? Problems appear on both TV & harddrive box.
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robp10:41 PM
Bury St. Edmunds
robp: well my problem was fixed easily!! Threw away the dodgy aerial extension cable and now everything works great.
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Saturday, 13 September 2014
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Richard8:04 PM
Hello Everyone
What a fantastic website! I hope you can help me.
I have recently bought a house in Felsted which is on the overlap between Crystal Palace and Sudbury. I was previously living in another house in the same estate that was rented and had excellent signal from Sudbury.
The house that I have bought had 2 aerials installed: one in the loft (disconnected and pointing roughly east) and one outside on a pole that was in use and pointing South (Crystal Palace)
The signal from Crystal Palace wasn't great, so I thought I would see if I could repurpose the disconnected aerial to recieve from Sudbury. I have reconnected this old aerial and pointed it towards Sudbury. Following a return, I have all the channels except ArqA (Dave etc are missing) all the other channels have 90%+ signal and perfect signal quality.
Where have I gone wrong, and how do I get ArqA?
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Tuesday, 14 October 2014
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Ms Devine 6:43 PM
Ipswich
I keep loseing all itv channels since the last retune.i live in ipswich Suffolk ip1 5au
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Friday, 7 November 2014
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nick6:27 PM
Richard: That multiplex is on the highest frequency and the most temperamental, if any of the muxes go down, it will be that one, it is a pain in the *. If I use a wall plate instead of the aerial cable straight to the set, that mux [only] goes down, if it foggy, it goes down, if it sunny, it goes down.....
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