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 27/11/2023 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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Friday, 21 December 2018
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hardy9:52 PM
David . HD needs a bit stronger signal than SD . So its possible that there is a small fault in your aerial/cable/connections . Not big enough problem to knock out SD but making the signal too weak for HD.
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Friday, 8 February 2019
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Barry Blake6:15 AM
Will a freeview loft Ariel pick up all channel?
Thank you in anticipation
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StevensOnln110:41 AM
Barry Blake: We need to know where you are (please provide a full postcode) to stand any chance of anyone being able to answer that.
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Tuesday, 19 February 2019
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Steve7:35 PM
Witham
I can no longer pick up LBC or Classic FM since the recent retune of these channels. I have done the reset procedure of pulling the aerial out of the back of my NOWTV box & doing a rescan. Everytime I do this it shows 2 iterations of LBC & Classic fm but neither of them supply any audio.
I believe I am picking up reception from the Sudbury transmitter & I live in the CM8 1XE area.
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Steve's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 20 February 2019
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Chris.SE4:42 PM
Steve:
You should be getting very good reception from all muxes at Sudbury according to Coverage Checker - Detailed View
I'd try that Reset and Retune with the aerial unplugged again and perhaps at the end when it says no channels found, power it off, wait a minute, power on and check there are still no channels found, plug the aerial back in and do a new Tune for the channels.
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Thursday, 21 February 2019
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Hardy9:36 PM
Steve make sure you are using the right tuning mode . Some Freeview boxes have a complete retune mode and an 'add new channel mode '
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Saturday, 11 May 2019
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Rex Watson12:02 PM
It is a geat pity that Freesports is not available from Sudbury, as I am retired and live on a pension, so I cannot afford to pay to watch sport.
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StevensOnln14:51 PM
Rex Watson: Have you looked at getting Freesat? A one-off cost for the dish + box and installation (or reuse an existing dish & cabling if the property has previously had Sky at some point in the last 20 years).
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Monday, 10 June 2019
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TK3:21 AM
Is it atmospherics causing out of area signals interfering with CH37 ArqB multiplex from Sudbury? The signal strength reported is low and has been for several days and quality can drop to 0% is currently 2% with FEC allowing the multiplex to be watchable but when it drops to 1% and below it errors out with loads of error blocks breaking up the video and audio. All other multiplexes are behaving normally in high 90's to 100% quality.
Using a wideband log-periodic outdoors aerial and 8 way distribution amp with 10dB gain per output and 4G filtered and low loss double screened co-axial cable.
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Tuesday, 11 June 2019
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H Green2:24 PM
I know nothing about the technicalities of aerials etc but what I do know is that for the past 10 days, living in Ipswich with a very basic aerial set up towards Sudbury, I haven't been able to get any of the ITV channels until mid to late evening. Normally there are very rarely any problems getting the "main" channels, and as many of the Freeview ones worth giving house room.
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