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 11/12/2023 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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Thursday, 21 June 2018
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Chris.SE12:53 AM
McMahon:
I do not think you will get the BBC mux from Sudbury on an indoor aerial as suggested by Hardy.
As you are probably aware, multiplex channel changes have been taking place as part of the 700Mhz band clearance, Sudbury had some changes back in March and whilst you initially may not have had (many) problems, further changes have been taking place more recently at adjacent and other transmitters and this is resulting in reception from Sudbury becoming more "difficult" for your location.
If you look at DigitalUK's prediction for your location at Coverage Checker - Detailed View you will see that for Sudbury this is not going to improve significantly as further retunes take place and will be worse for some muxes.
Also if you have a group E aerial this will not be helping as COM muxes move to lower channels.
However, there is a Relay transmitter at Clacton-on-Sea and whilst this is currently a "Freeview Light" transmitter (no COM muxes), that is changing on 1st August 2018 when COMs 4,5 & 6 will be added according to DigitalUK. You will see that on the link mentioned above.
You may get satisfactory reception from your existing aerial, but it may require re-aligning (or replacing with a group K).
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Chris.SE1:02 AM
McMahon:
Please IGNORE my previous post above, I'm afraid I mistakenly looked at the wrong postcode.
You should get satisfactory reception of all muxes according to DigitalUK, see Coverage Checker - Detailed View
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Chris.SE3:30 AM
McMahon:
Further to my last, there are 3 mobile phone masts close to you and almost line of sight between you and the transmitter. If any of them have recently started transmitting in the 800Mhz band they could be causing you interference, especially if you happen to have a distribution amplifier in your system.
Have you recently received a Freeview Interference card from AT800 by any chance? Even so, if you think it could be interference - apart from your reception problem, any blocky or frozen pictures on other channels, contact AT800 on 0808-1313800.
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Sunday, 24 June 2018
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Hardy11:05 PM
re Mcmahon. the changes at Sudbury should not affect signal strength because all MUXs are still at 100KW. Only a group CD aerial would have trouble getting the channels . Any other group aerial B K or E should be ok for the time being . (until UHF channel 29 comes into use) I suspect the problem could be a bad joint in the aerial connection or interference as Chris suggests.
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Tuesday, 10 July 2018
please would someone tell me where to find an up to date list of the channels used by Sudbury, Dover and Tacolneston?
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Hardy11:21 AM
putting youre post code into this coverage checker gives the channels info (select detailed view) . If you want channels outside your area use a post code nearer the wanted transmitter (theatre ,post office etc )
Coverage Checker - Detailed View
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Wednesday, 11 July 2018
thanks, Hardy, I tried that but was unable to find which CHANNELS were used muxes
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Thursday, 12 July 2018
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Hardy11:45 AM
THe channels are mostly still on the same multiplexes . (with a few exceptions) Usually only the transmission frequencies changed .So you can just look at the relevant freeview transmitter pages. If there are specific channels you are interested in I might be able to find out .
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Hardy11:55 AM
Nick . It seems that a given multiplex carries the same channels for all three transmitters but only Tacolneston carries com7 and 8.
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Hardy11:58 AM
I found the multiplexes seem to be standard on virtually all transmitters . Listed here https://ukfree.tv/transmi…exes
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