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 30/09/2024 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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Friday, 23 June 2017
MikeP
12:07 PM
12:07 PM
R GreenL
You may find that ypu have too much signal for the Hitachi TV's tuner. A strength of 10 is too much. TV sets vary in terms of their tuner sensitivity and your Hitachi may not like the signals being that strong. Try fitting an attenuator in line with the aerial feed to that TV only. They are available in different 'strengths'so try a 6dB one first. They are very cheap to buy, even the good quality ones are not too costly.
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Tuesday, 1 August 2017
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john c5:19 PM
Brian, is Sudbury definitely changing from E to K group in December 2018? and if replacing an aerial now should it be a K type for future compatibility?
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StevensOnln17:29 PM
john c: If you fit a group K aerial now you will have worse reception on the COM muxes until the frequency changes take place. The best aerials to use for nearly everyone is a wideband type such as a log periodic design which will receive all current and future frequencies used for Freeview from any transmitter. Bear in mind that there is a government scheme to provide replacement aerials for households who loose reception after the frequency changes, so there is no pressing need to replace your aerial now if that is the sole reason for doing so.
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Thursday, 3 August 2017
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Abe8:42 AM
After the recent retune BBC2 has terrible break up problems. Before it was rock solid. BBC1 is perfect. Anyone else had the same problem? Sudbury transmitter area.
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StevensOnln19:47 AM
Abe: BBC1 and BBC2 are both broadcast together on the same multiplex, so that would suggest that your TV may be tuned to more than one transmitter. Please provide a full postcode so we can see which transmitters cover your location, where you are in relation to them and predicted coverage etc.
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Sunday, 13 August 2017
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Drek Springall7:56 PM
Colchester
Prior to the recent freeview channel changes I had every channel and a strong signal. Every channel was approx. 90% and the BBC channels at 100%. But it took me more than fifteen attempted channel rescans to get most of my channels back (not all) but now with poor signals and blocking / pixelated pictures on most channels. For one example Film four is now unwatchable.
What has changed?
Post code: CO7 8QF
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Drek's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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nicholas8:49 PM
Hi,you could check reception with a second hand fv box or overhaul yr aerial system,try a set top aerial and see what local reception condiions are like,sometimes the tuners go faulty after a number of years.Myself,i'm lucky,i live in a swamp area.
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nicholas8:52 PM
Hi,there is another way to improve reception but it is only open to those who can use a soldering iron and are capable of doing work on aerials.n............
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MikeB9:06 PM
Peterborough
Drek Springall: Check the DigitalUK and terrain links - Crystal Palace and Sandy Heath are almost on the same bearing as your original transmitter, but would come up first in any scan - so its likely thats what the tuner has found first. Check, and if thats the case, manually retune.
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MikeB's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 14 August 2017
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nicholas9:08 PM
Hi,one way of improving yr reception is to remove the aluminum dipole which has the coax cable attached to
it and replace it with an insulated thick copper wire,bent to the shape of the dipole,yr aerial should pick better,copper is very good for aerials,as a instance,north of oxford,on a set top aerial, i can get a locked
picture from hannington,abt 40 miles south,before it was 5percent on the signal strength.This is done at yr
risk,NO legal responseibilty of any kind accepted.You might find the signals too strong,worth a try if you're up to it,don't do anything you can't cope with.
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