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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Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Dale
5:25 PM
Ipswich
5:25 PM
Ipswich
Brian : assuming you are pointing at Sudbury, did you have the digital ITV channels before today? Many people around here (Ipswich) cannot pick them up yet because they are still on very low power on CH56 from Sudbury B : I get them OK in IP2, but my brother-in-law, half a mile away and also in IP2, has never received them despite buying the most expensive aerial he could find! He is 'lower down' than me (i.e. closer to sea level) and I've always assumed that tbis is the problem. They will be fine on full power from July 20th.
Alternatively, are you on the Stoke Relay and picking up Freeview for the first time? In which case, it is only the BBC channels that are currently being relayed from there : from July 20th it will relay the PSB channels, sometimes called Freeview Lite, and that will include *some* of the ITV channels (but not all).
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nick6:09 PM
Mike, very busy here today, wonder why!
Rouncefall and Sud using the same frequencies, really? Don't they mess each other up? If this works why cannot all xmitters use the same channels etc for digital? Make it nice and easy for us.
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Tim
7:50 PM
Walton On The Naze
7:50 PM
Walton On The Naze
After today's retune, I am pleased to report that my Goodmans GDB6 digibox can handle 8k mode, as well as all my other DVB receivers. Strangely though, the BBC channels show an average 63% signal strength (about the same as before DSO1), but all other channels show a significant increase (e.g. Dave 15% to 52%). I'm in a 'marginal' Freeview area, but can still get 70+ TV and radio channels. Now looking forward to DSO2!!
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Tub7:55 PM
Colchester
Hi. Found I had lost BBC1 BBC2 on all 3 digitalTV's in house. Re-tuned 2 no problem, but Sony TV on re-tune could not auto re-tune. Had to go into manual tuning and select channel 44 and select each BBC station manually. Anyone know why and will I have to do this again later in July?
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patrick9:01 PM
Leeds
my bbc channels have just lost signal - i have never had a problem before ? is everyone in this area experiencing the same prob?
Cheers
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Thursday, 7 July 2011
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Liam12:18 AM
Ipswich
I'm from Ipswich and after July 6th I can now receive all the BBC channels on my indoor aerial, what date will I be able to receive 'Yesterday' on multiplex D/ARQB???
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Peter12:36 AM
Colchester
Hi just posting a reception report after the first SUDBURY transmitter changeover.
I'm near Tiptree with a huge historic building about 300 yards away in direct line of sight to the transmitter.
I did a full retune on my set top box today and all BBC stations have now gone from medium to very good quality strength on my box, including BBC4 which sometimes went to poor and lost the signal. It's a cheap box(less than £20).
When the full tune comes around with increased power in 2 weeks can I expect all the other channels to come through at the same strength?
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Rob9:19 AM
Since retuning I have lost all the channels on C68 , can anyone help .
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Dave E10:10 AM
Colchester
Peter near Tiptree
The only mux which is due for a power increase in 2 weeks time is Mux2 on channels 68 and 56 moving to 41. I have never been able to receive this mux 3 miles east from Tiptree.
The propagation predictor is quite pessimistic. It predicts poor quality for Mux 1, but in reality this mux is quite excellent, and so it should be at 100kW power.
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KMJ,Derby10:58 AM
Liam: There is an improvement to the reception of Mux ArqB shown on 16th November 2011, when the frequency changes temporarily to C63, but still at low power. As you are are using an indoor aerial it might not be possible to achieve reliable reception of this mux until 27th June 2012 when frequencies become available enabling the COM muxes to switch to high power transmitters.
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