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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Sunday, 14 August 2011
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jb385:38 PM
Elliot (hockley): Meant to include, if you are experimenting these are the bearings from you for the transmitters mentioned.
Crystal Palace - 253 degrees
Sudbury - 2 degrees
Bluebell Hill - 206 degrees
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Elliot (hockley) 10:00 PM
Southend-on-sea
jb38 thank you once again for your help its interesting because i thought sudburry was 7 degrees not 2 that maybe why im having a few problems i will readjust as my current 91 element is pointing 7 degrees i will let you know what I find out, tomorrow i will put the new 41 element aerial up onto my mast and see what happens see what i can find on other transmitters
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KMJ,Derby10:31 PM
Elliot (hockley): Sudbury is 7 degrees if you are in Hockley, but 2 degrees for Southend-on-Sea, as per your second postcode.
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Monday, 15 August 2011
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jb388:11 AM
KMJ,Derby: Yes, quite correct KMJ, although in the practical sense the relatively close Rouncefall transmitter being on the same frequency as Sudbury would most probably upset any accuracy involving the exact direction angle for Sudbury anyway.
Elliot (hockley): Based on KMJ jogging my mind on the Hockley location, I carried out a new assessment of reception using a SS5 post code (Hockley Post office, Spa Road) and although it lifts Sudbury's MuxC/ArqA out of its variable classification on June 12th next year, unfortunately on the downside Bluebell Hill to all intents and purposes is virtually wiped out as a possible for reception, indications being far worse than at present.
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John Stone1:58 PM
Hockley
John Stone, Hawkwell, Hockley, SS5 4JN. Hi, a couple of things; Rouncefall is very strong around this area and me and a lot of other people are having problems with too much signal. We have been used to having to struggle with weak signals from Sudbury, Dover, Bluebell Hill and/or Crystal Palace. We have erected large aerial which we now don't need. My Father inlaw lives in Rochford SS4 , about 2 miles away and has always received signals from Bluebell Hill, he can now receive Rouncefall on the back of his aerial, full strength! I think I will try and swing my aerial round to Bluebell Hill and see what happens. The other thing that someone may be able to answer is why is ITV 1 + 1 and ITV 1 HD from Sudbury/Rouncefall transmitting Meridian TV?
Thanks.
John.
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jb3810:04 PM
John Stone: As far as your query on ITV1+1 & ITV1HD is concerned, unfortunately I cannot answer that as its really more in Briantists domain as far as an explanation is concerned, although I do see what you have mentioned listed in the PSB2 & PSB3 Mux charts.
However on the technical side, I found your reception report interesting as its gives a further insight as to the variable reception that exists in your area, with the post code indicating as you being only 1 mile away from the Rouncefall transmitter, so you must indeed get blasted with the signal.
I would appreciate though if you could give a further report on what you find when you try your aerial facing Bluebell Hill, as the Digital UK's trade view shows the four Mux's as being variable.
You will most likely have to carry out a manual tune on your set to receive Bluebell Hill, as Rouncefall etc would take up the low EPG positions on an auto-tune pushing Bluebell into the 800 ranges, that is if you can pick it up at all, as the powerful signal from Rouncefall might somewhat desensitize your tuner for other lesser powered channels.
The four Bluebell Hills Mux channels being 59 - 24 - 27 - 39
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Gary Dadds10:10 PM
Oh well I tried my Samsung BD-C8200 box at my parents (CB11) and could get no HD from Sandy, their Panasonic TV pulls it in ok. I have emailed Amazon concerning a warranty return. I await their reply in anticipation.
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011
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Pete Green11:01 AM
Weston-super-mare
John Stone
There only about 5 areas for ITV1+1 and ITV HD. So you only get Meridian. I live in Sometset and have make do with Welch on those two.
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jb3812:19 PM
Gary Dadds: Thanks for the update, which has somewhat proved my suspicions about the box, however this was reinforced when I finally managed to have a look at the user manuals spec for that device, as it doesnt state that its capable of operating on DVB-T2, the UK's freeview HD standard, as its only shown as a DVB-T device, that being the cause of your problem.
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pm4:58 PM
Ipswich
Hi,have experienced probs,with freeview lately,had new ariel and shielded cable installed split around the house and boosted i guess by return from a t.v,my signal strength is approx 60% on all bbc and itv channels.Reception is poor,unwatchable in many cases,by set top box and built in.Sudbury is our tranmitter and it,s showing no tech or eng. works.
Post code is ip1 5jf.any help appreciated.
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