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 11/11/2024 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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Wednesday, 16 November 2011
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Hollzjw11:48 AM
Sudbury
Hi,
Ive got a similar problem to Dale, I live very near to the Sudbury transmitter co10 9dz, this morning I could not get film 4, so I retuned my digi box, now I realise I can't get film 4, yesterday, itv 4 etc they don't even show up at all. Can you tell me why this is, as yesterday I got all these channels. I realise arqb is changing from channel 50 to 63 but is this the reason for losing the channels and is there a way of getting them back?
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Russ11:56 AM
I live in Wivenhoe Essex and my rather large aerial is pointed at Sudbury transmitter. Film4, ITV4, Russia Today etc. on multiplex ArqB failed in the early hours of 16/11/11. I powered off/on my Humax Freeview PVR to reboot it, and then re-scanned. Still no Film4 and ITV4 etc. Can anyone advise why I no longer receive ArqB? I have have not had signal problems before 16/11/11.
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Russ12:02 PM
I live in Wivenhoe Essex and my rather large aerial is pointed at Sudbury transmitter. Film4, ITV4, Russia Today etc. on multiplex ArqB failed in the early hours of 16/11/11. I powered off/on my Humax Freeview PVR to reboot it, and then re-scanned. Still no Film4 and ITV4 etc. Can anyone advise why I no longer receive ArqB? I have had no signal problems before 16/11/11.
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KMJ,Derby12:04 PM
Russ: Mux ArqB from Sudbury is now transmitted on C63. You will need to do a factory reset to erase the memory of the channels on the old frequency before rescanning, or alternatively delete the channels on Mux ArqB from your channel list then do a manual tune on C63.
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Hollzjw: At your distance you shouldn't have an issue picking up ArqB.
Try carrying out the procedure outlined here:
My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice (DN31NJ)
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Dave Lindsay, and neither should Hollzjw (11:48am post above) have any problem being in the shadow of the masts!
But he has.
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Heinz's: mapH's Freeview map terrainH's terrain plot wavesH's frequency data H's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Reports of no/very poor reception of ArqB/UHF 63 from Sudbury appear to be coming from various locations within the expected reception area.
There've been reports from Sudbury itself, Clacton, Colchester, Southend (i.e. both near and far).
Is there anyone out there who can report no problems receiving the mux on its new channel?
If anyone can , please reply giving your location etc.
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Heinz's: mapH's Freeview map terrainH's terrain plot wavesH's frequency data H's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Delenn1:26 PM
Sorry, Russ, you are in the same boats as loads of us. I am in Wivenhoe with a wideband aerial that used to get the low powered ITV mux before DSO, but now ArqB is lousy, even though it is meant to be double the (still low) power.
Can't find out how to tell Arqiva.
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To those with issues picking up ArqB from Sudbury (who received it prior to 16th) try carrying out the procedure outlined here:
My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
This page suggests that some receivers "remember" what muxes they'd tuned to previously. This could explain why they don't "see" ArqB from Sudbury on C63 because they have it down as being on C50. (DN31NJ)
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P Smith7:48 PM
I re-tuned the main TV- OK. The computers TV dongle -OK. The little caravan TV - no go on c12 c24 etc.No amount of switching on and off etc. works, cannot find a method of wiping the channels - the fix suggested above does not work. Sisters main TV -no go.Her little TV -OK. I am beginning to suspect some TVs rather than the transmitter. Life gets teedyus don't it? (Sudbury transmitter).
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