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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Saturday, 16 July 2011
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jb389:35 PM
Dale: Thanks for the update, judging by what you report its obvious that local variables exist to what the actual post code predicts, Ch49 being the best example of this.
What you find after the 20th will be interesting, as after then only MuxC (Ch54) & MuxD (Ch50) are indicated as being variable, although on September 11th MuxD changes over to good reception, with MuxC staying as being variable until 27th June 2012 when it also joins the category of "good", that is as well as changing to Ch60.
Ch49 on this same date changing to Ch58 8k operation, reception jumping to 100%.
Pity about the TV having a single scale indication, this not really being any use except for crude indications of what is happening. Regarding the scart gadget, I only asked as I wondered if it was one of the originals as there are a few types about nowadays.
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Monday, 18 July 2011
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Snail4:39 PM
I am receiving all channels from the Sudbury Transmitter but NOT ITV 1 Anyone know why not
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Dale
7:26 PM
Ipswich
7:26 PM
Ipswich
Snail : are you sure you're still getting C4 and C5? They are all on the same very low power Mux (with others) until Weds morning, and loads of people are not getting them at the moment. If it really IS only ITV1, then that's very odd.
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Dale's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Dave Mills8:10 PM
Ipswich
Ive never had any problems before getting c4 and the other channels on that mux but for some reason today its off and on like a yoyo does anyone have any answers?? postcode IP77RA
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
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Eddie Stacey8:02 PM
Ipswich
Thanks for your extremely helpful website information and contributors' questions and answers. It has certainly been far more useful than digitaluk and that annoying robot!
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Eddie's: mapE's Freeview map terrainE's terrain plot wavesE's frequency data E's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Eddie Stacey: Thanks for your complements. There are no robots here!
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011
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Ian10:02 AM
Clacton-on-sea
Hi Everyone,
Just checked the Digital UK website for my postcode (we live in Clacton), amazingly they predict that my reception will get better on 16 November this year, then gradually worsen until 2012 when only 10 channels will be 'good'
This seems ludicrous, I've retuned this morning and all seems good signal strength wise from Sudbury and Clacton transmitters, except for the Film Four mux (50), we already use a booster and at least ITV is now coming in strong, but it seems rubbish that according to Digital UK by 2012 the channels that are 'variable' increase to 59 from 45 today.
I thought switchover was supposed to make things better not worse ?
Sorry for the rant, and thanks for this great website, very useful.
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Ian's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Dave12:45 PM
Hi,
I live in the SS0 post code area before DSO today I had a decent signal across the board using a high gain wideband Ariel pointing at the Sudbury transmitter. However, since retuning this morning the signal on channel 50 is very flaky al the the others are fine, is there any reason for this?
Thank you in advance
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Mrs. C. Richardson2:15 PM
Ipswich
Postcode IP4 2LR
My digital aerial is on our roof. Before switchover I could get more freeview channels than I can now. Now all it does it break up and some previous channels I now cannot get.
Is the signal likely to get any better.
My neighbours freeview is the same!
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Mrs.'s: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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