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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter._______
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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Saturday, 24 August 2013
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Jason7:54 AM
Could anyone give me an answer to a quick question, I noticed last Saturday (August 17th) that Pick TV's schedule was showing Sky Sports programmes for part of the afternoon, Soccer Saturday and also the live premiership football, at the same time they were also being shown on Sky 2 as well as on the Sky Sports channel, was this just a one off as this Saturday (August 24th) Pick TV has resorted to its usual programming.
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Sunday, 25 August 2013
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pete green10:16 AM
Weston-super-mare
Jason
It was a one off.
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pete's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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PETER HUGHES7:42 PM
Hi there. Please see my comments posted today on the DOVER FREEVIEW TRANSMITTER page, concerning Sudbury and the noticeable gradual increase of aerials, in Clacton, pointing to the Dover transmitter.
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Wednesday, 28 August 2013
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nick12:13 AM
I am getting the ITV channels in Aldeburgh with an aerial aligned on Dover on channel 49.
I am curious to know the transmitter location. All the possibilities show BBC on this channel and cannot find a map on this site showing all transmitters in Essex and Kent.
Any ideas, please?
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nick: I suggest that you are receiving it from Heathfield.
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Thursday, 29 August 2013
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nick12:14 AM
thanks Dave.
How about ITV on channel 26 with Sudbury aerial?
I cannot get any sense out of freeview this time of year. I have a brilliant Sudbury aerial, one minute near 100% signal quality on all muxes, then c56, 58, 60 go to zero, or at least one of them does, then another, then another.
Similar on Dover aerial
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nick: PSB2 on C26 is probably Crystal Palace.
Look at the pages for each channel - that is where I'm getting the information from to answer your questions!
C21 (474.0MHz) after switchover | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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Friday, 30 August 2013
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nick12:08 AM
Thanks Dave.
I get a good picture from Holland on channel 22 with a group c aerial at 90 degrees to it! Shame I struggle with the right aerial in the right direction for Sudbury!
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Chris12:25 AM
nick: where abouts are you, Nick, to be able to receive Holland?
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