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, 14 June 2015
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tom toolan8:15 PM
Haverhill
Hi I live at CB9 7JD, and in the last two weeks we have been unable to watch freeview, sepsically ITV, Ch4, actually anything which is not a BBC chanel. Something has happend very recently and it impact on two different devices.
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Friday, 19 June 2015
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Paul webster5:08 PM
Multiplex PSB3 - BBCB - in Woodbridge Suffolk as started to freeze frame even though the signal strength says good. Sound is OK but has a static and jumping picture. 17/06/2015
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Dave Lindsay
5:59 PM
5:59 PM
Paul webster: Someone else posted about an issue with PSB3 from Woodbridge on Wednesday:
Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you
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Thursday, 9 July 2015
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Robert Bird10:33 AM
I live in IP68SA and have an issue with, pretty much, all BBC chanels, with severe blocking or just no signal for most of the day, in normal def as hi def seems ok 90% of the time but these are occasionally blocky - this has been going on for over two weeks. My neighbour is having the same problems.
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Saturday, 11 July 2015
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Lewis Brooke7:32 PM
All channels have poor reception tonight even the basic channels.. Yet apparently no reported problems.. Yer if you say so.. Think you need to take a look as this is not acceptable...!!!
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Sunday, 12 July 2015
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MikeB11:45 AM
Lewis Brooke: If 440,000 people were complaining about the transmitter having a problem, thats one thing, but if its just you, then the problem probably lies at your end. If your getting poor signal strength (and make sure your tuned into the correct transmitter) then you most likely have a problem with your aerial system, perhaps a loose or broken cable, etc. Check from the back of the TV, and often it might be nothing more than a loose or damaged aerial lead.
BTW - we have no idea as to what sort of signal you should get, becuase we have no idea where you are.
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Monday, 2 November 2015
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David Gibson10:08 PM
Ipswich
I live in Ipswich at IP1 3RD, and I (try) and get Freeview via an expensive high-gain aerial in my roof space, with an aerial splitter/amplifier. I am served by the Sudbury transmitter, and I cannot receive any other station.
However,since Saturday evening I have seen loss of some or most of the channels with a very variable signal strength. EG the BBC multiplex varies between a picture, then breakup, then the decoder reports no signal. This is affecting most of the services, such as BBC, ITV, channel5 and a lot of the other assorted ones.
I assume this is caused by the weather conditions, with a distant station interfering with the Sudbury signal. This has been going n for some days, which means very poor value for my TV licence. Is anything going to change the situation for the future, or should I go for Freesat? At least the dropouts there are relatively short duration.
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Tuesday, 3 November 2015
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MikeP12:26 PM
Trowbridge
David Gibson:
As there are reports of such rec[etion difficulties across the southern part of England it seems highly likely that the weather is causing disruption. There is nothing anyone can do to remedy this as it is a perfectly natural occurence that has been observed, off and on, for more than 60 years (since we started using RF signals at frequencies that are affected by such temerparure inversions).
Whether you movce to Freesat is your choice. The TV licence is irrelevant to natural events.
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Sunday, 8 November 2015
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nick5:36 PM
no signal on any channel from Sudbury lately, doubtless the poor wee thing knocked out by fog
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Saturday, 28 November 2015
Dale Rumbold
11:20 AM
Ipswich
11:20 AM
Ipswich
Hi ; Yesterday and today have had problems on the BBC Channels, both SD and HD, on Freeview from Sudbury. Every few seconds the bottom quarter of the picture 'flickers' . First noticed this on BBC1 SD last night (27th Nov) during Look East, but have just checked and same problem still occurring on BBC1 and BBC2 both SD and HD today (28th Nov). Commercial channels (ITV etc) are all functioning normally. I'm at IP2 9XY.
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