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, 11 February 2018
Mike P
they are indeed, but if you get time to explain how extra reflectors on the log periodic are beneficial, at your leisure, it would be appreciated.
It seems to me that freeview is a rather naff setup. I am technically in the Aldeburgh transmitter area, but want more channels. I had a group B aerial which was fine for Sudbury on analogue, including the weak signal then from C5.
This was no use when freeview came along. After much experimenting I built the present aerial. It got me all the muxes, including the worst one on channel 60. I get 90% plus on all muxes, strength and quality. But regularly several get knocked out, though the ones on ch 41 and 44 are the last to disappear. When any/all disappear, the aforementioned figures go down to zero. It seems that anything it does not like, rain, fog, hot sun, Dutchmen, knock it out at the drop of a hat! There are no half measures, it is all or nothing.
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Tuesday, 20 March 2018
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Steve12:25 PM
Can somebody help, please?
Since the bad weather I have been unable to receive the independnt channels (C4/ITV/C5/etc)
I have retuned, checked the aerial, in fact, done all I can but, nothing but pixelation!
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MikeB2:24 PM
Steve: The weather might have caused water to get into the system, etc. Check all connections and cables , and if your signal is still too low (check it), then you might have to call out a professional.
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Monday, 16 April 2018
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Rupert Allen 5:00 PM
My postcode is Co100rj. I regularly get channel drop-outs - usually on ch 37 etc. On Sunday 18th March ch 18,19,22,25,31,35,39,42 and 47 were unwatchable. The next day all worked fine. Often l find that it is a group of commercial or bbc channels that have trouble- multiplex? I have also experienced intermittentnoise? I wondered if a transmitter was nearby?
Any comments?
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StevensOnln17:29 PM
Rupert Allen : You're just 6km from the Sudbury transmitter and should be getting a strong signal, possibly too strong which can overload the tuner. Search for the article titled "Too much of a good thing" on this website and try an attenuator.
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I have lost all the hd channels yet the weaker multiplexes which are often a problem are ok. Any ideas please?
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Monday, 23 April 2018
Friday, 27 April 2018
the channel chart is wrong, it shows multiplexes on channels 29 and 31 They are not in use. It needs to be corrected. If they are moving, when? I do not want to keep buying new aerials.
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StevensOnln17:30 PM
nick horrex: According to Digital UK, the only retune still due to take place at Sudbury will happen on 1st August. I'm not sure why you would need to keep buying new aerials, official advice has been to fit a wideband type for around 20 years now.
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Thursday, 3 May 2018
thanks Steve. If you look at the chart, it says they will be using channels 31 and 35, allegedly as from last March
I am on the fringe. To get the muxes on channels 58 and 60 I had to have an aerial specifically designed for that end of the band. Now they seem to be moving to the opposite end.
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