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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter._______
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, 28 February 2020
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aytch3:18 PM
All connections are fine. I have an amplifier at the room end with separate outputs for tv and radio. In the loft the radio aerial cable is connected to the terminals of the tv aerial.
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MikeP
7:37 PM
7:37 PM
Aytch:
You cannot connect two different aerials together that way and that will be one cause of your problems. You must use a proper coaxial diplexer.
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Saturday, 29 February 2020
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Chris.SE2:31 AM
aytch:
What you need is something like this eBay item 264646940009 but can I find a new one or similar by a different manufacturer at a "sensible" price!! These things used to be widely available, two a penny!
In that example you can remove the existing "leads" and connect your aerial and downlead coaxes directly to it.
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Chris.SE3:34 AM
aytch:
OK, found this https://staks.org.uk/prod…uhf/ nice low insertion loss.
Don't know if they'll supply retail, give them a ring (0)28 9146 9136
With a bit of luck they'll send it Royal Mail 2nd class, total inc postage may be under 10.
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Thursday, 5 March 2020
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
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Raine11:33 PM
All channels population problems. Signal showing as poor to good
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Thursday, 2 April 2020
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Chris.SE12:16 AM
Raine:
Not exactly sure what you mean by "population" problems, however, if it's actually the Sudbury transmitter that you're supposed to be receiving, I can't trace any reported faults either by Freeview or the BBC. Without a full postcode, it's not possible to look at predicted reception for your location and which transmitter(s) you may/should be receiving.
Have you changed anything around moved any/added any equipment. It may pay to check all your coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads are a common problem, try swapping/changing them. See what signal strengths and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section. Also check that your downlead looks undamaged (especially if it is old) and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
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Monday, 18 May 2020
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Rex Watson1:38 PM
Freeview Sudbury is broadcasting Sony Movies on two channels. Do you think that one of these should really carry Sony Classic Movies?
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StevensOnln12:39 PM
Rex Watson: Sony Movies recently moved to COM6, however it is also still being carried on its previous multiplex on LCN 792. Nothing has been announced regarding when this arrangement will end, or what will replace the old version of Sony Movies. Sony Movies Classic can be found on the local mux in areas that have a local TV station on LCN 7 or 8.
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Sunday, 28 June 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 AM
7:28 AM
SUDBURY transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 27 Jun 19:45 until 27 Jun 19:53. Off the air due to a fault from 27 Jun 15:49 until 27 Jun 18:02. . [BBC]
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