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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Tuesday, 23 December 2014
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d.kimber8:39 AM
We are recently experiencing picture / sound break up on some of the itv channels also true tv and sky news, tried retuning with no change. some channels are fine. what is going on ?. We have a roof aerial which is amplified to the various tv locations. the problem is affecting all tv's
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Sunday, 28 December 2014
spencer
6:54 PM
6:54 PM
Channels are affected by break ups and pixels due to 4g work mantainence :)
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Monday, 29 December 2014
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Darren White1:23 PM
I live in Fairstead and have had a good signal from Sudbury for the last 10 years through the digital switch over, over the last couple of months the signal has got worse during some parts of the day and it has been unwatchable over xmas, the picture is pixilly and most channels just say bad signal, i have re-tuned many times and it doesn't help, this is happening on all TV's in the house, i do not want to get sky, so if the 4g upgrade is effecting this, what can be done about it and how long will it last, the idea of the digital switchover was to free the analoge bandwidth so we had more coice and better signal, now we are swamped with rubbish channels and cant watch the main 4
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Sunday, 4 January 2015
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Dave Lindsay
9:11 PM
9:11 PM
Joan: It won't. COM7 (and forthcoming COM8) multiplexes have been built on a shoestring due to their expected short lifespan of only five years. At that time frequencies might get re-jigged and Sudbury might get other services such as carried on COM7.
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Saturday, 23 May 2015
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david brown9:27 AM
Halstead
No tv signal halstead co9 2td
Since Friday 22ndMay 2015 to present
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jb3810:13 AM
david brown: If, as appearances might possibly suggest, you are connected into a communal aerial system? then its advisable to check if any of the other residents in the apartment block are also experiencing a no signal problem, if they aren't, then you should check the jumper lead used to connect your TV or box into the wall socket.
The reason for suggesting this being, that although Sudbury was tagged as having a weak signal on the 19th & 20th, however according to engineering info it did not apply to the 21st / 22nd.
Another point to note being, that is "if" applicable, should you retuned your TV / box whilst the signal was down? then this will have deleted everything stored in the tuners memory, another retune being required to recover same.
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Thursday, 28 May 2015
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Tony Farrant 8:28 PM
Signal strength has dropped off considerably over the last few days in Haverhill affecting nearly all channels.
More than one aerial and tv's affected.
No problems before this and nothing else has been changed.
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Friday, 29 May 2015
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Andrew11:35 AM
Dear Sir / Ma'am
Our DAB radio signal in the Suffolk Haverhill CB9 location is not strong enough for us to listen to the BBC world service indoors. In order to get any sort of reception we have to take our radio out side.
Our TV is on cable now as the free view signal is too not strong enough.
I would truly enjoy listening to my DAB radio indoors though.
Is a repeater mast/ signal booster mast or transmitter planned for the Haverhill area in the near future. The Sudbury Transmitter does not give us a good signal.
We are truly greatful for the didgital service. A stronger signal wold be good though.
Kind Regards
Andrew
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