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 04/12/2023 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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Monday, 14 June 2021
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Chris.SE7:43 AM
Keith Lawler:
This is the second report I've seen about the ArqB/COM6 multiplex from the Clacton transmitter, yet no-one seems to have any Planned Engineering or Faults listed.
Mind you Freeview stupidly think your "preferred" transmitter is Sudbury whilst predicting better reception of all multiplexes from Clacton!
Check in your TV Tuning section that you are tuned to Clacton for COM6, UHF C46. Sudbury is in virtually an identical direction from your locale but on C37 for COM6.
You could try contacting Arqiva enquiries@arqiva.com as I think contacting Freeview for faults is like banging ones head against a wall unless you want repeat advise on how to retune - which by the way I do NOT recommend, if signals are missing retune just clears you current correct tuning!
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Monday, 6 September 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:23 AM
11:23 AM
Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 06/09/2021 Screen may go black on all or certain channels [DUK]
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Monday, 13 September 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:23 AM
11:23 AM
Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 13/09/2021 Screen may go black on all or certain channels [DUK]
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Friday, 17 September 2021
Transmitter engineering
10:47 AM
10:47 AM
Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 13/09/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 20 September 2021
Transmitter engineering
6:09 AM
6:09 AM
Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 20/09/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 27 September 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:49 AM
11:49 AM
Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 27/09/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 4 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
5:43 AM
5:43 AM
Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/10/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Friday, 8 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
2:44 PM
2:44 PM
Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/10/2021 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 11 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
5:43 AM
5:43 AM
Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/10/2021 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Friday, 15 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:29 AM
11:29 AM
Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/10/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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