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 18/11/2024 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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Thursday, 21 April 2011
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Mike Dimmick3:14 PM
Can't speak for Brian's box, but my Humax PVR-9200T has to be put in standby for it to get firmware updates. We've already seen numerous reports of people running very old firmware on this box because it was never put in standby, and experiencing problems that were fixed a long time ago.
The EPG data is transmitted at a pretty slow rate by the broadcasters - it takes a few minutes to trickle in. They broadcast about 8 days' worth at any time - if they happen to be broadcasting day 2 when you switch the box on, it takes a little while for it to get back round to today. It's like reading a long article on Ceefax.
Newer TVs and boxes, particularly PVRs, save the EPG data to persistent memory so that it's instantly available when you switch back on. (After the most recent update to my Humax, it now saves the EPG data to the hard disk when you put it in standby.)
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chris stevens8:06 PM
Woodbridge
Post code IP13 9EL, Pointing at Tachleston, and keep losing ITV1 etc (mux 2) (on channel 60) have to re-tune to get them back. Why is this suddenly happening, as i have been using freeview for about 3 or 4 years now, with no previous issues?
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Friday, 22 April 2011
chris stevens: You are not predicted to get a multiplex 2 signal from Tacolneston until 23rd November 2011.
To be honest, at your location, you are probably better using Freesat.
You are probably being effected by the recent changes to the digital in France and the Netherlands.
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Tuesday, 26 April 2011
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Nick10:38 AM
Woodbridge
Dear Brian,
I am still trying to work out what best to do when Sudbury goes digital in July in a coastal area which might suffer interference from Holland. I have a 'free' Sky box.
If I go for a freeview tv and suffer interference, I can watch on Sky, but for recording, in order to avoid interference, is there any reason I should not be able to record on a freesat box and watch the recordings on a freeview tv which has no freesat tuner? I do not want to have yet another box, ie freesat.
Can the freesat recorder use my Sky dish as well as Sky using it, or is connection difficult? Many thanks, Nick.
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Nick: As you are not predicted to get Freeview reception of reasonable quality, I would suggest you get a Freesat+HD box.
You can use a Freesat+HD box with any sort of TV you like.
Yes, you can attach Freesat equipment to your existing LNB package.
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011
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Nick8:34 AM
Woodbridge
Many thanks yet again Brian. I did not realise we were not even predicted to get decent freeview here. Clearly the Sudbury digital service will not cover fully the area currently served by its analogue service. Those in charge should not be permitted to switch off analogue till they find a way to replace it properly.
I have made enquiries about a freesat recorder, seems like I would need a multiple lnb and 2 more holes in the wall and cables.
I am getting fed up with digital even before it starts!
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Nick: According to the "system", your analogue transmitter is the one at Aldeburgh, not Sudbury.
At some point Aldeburgh will give you a good service, but this will move to "marginal" in the future.
The analogue, and therefore digital services cover 98.5% of the population.
You are in the 1.5% that won't get a decent terrestrial service, and for you Freesat has been provided.
Freesat boxes start at £30 - Buy Bush BFSAT02SD Freesat SD Digital Box - Black at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for Freesat digital set top boxes.
- and you can get a dish fitted from £89 - Buy Single Freesat Installation at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for Freesat accessories.
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Freesat HD will provide ALL the channels you will ever get terrestrially, and you can have them today if you want.
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Nick8:56 AM
Woodbridge
Dear Brian,
You are remarkably helpful, thank you.
Please would you explain what you mean by Aldeburgh will move to 'marginal' after a good start. Here at IP12, Aldebugh analogue indeed provides a signal equal to Sudbury but I am reluctant to use it as the digital channels will be few, cannot even be sure ITV3 will be included. Nevertheless, when push comes to shove, will its digital be ok here?
Freesat, have the Sky dish already, seems to require more cables and lnb changes. Why we cannot hook up all these gadgets to one coax from the dish is beyond me.
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Nick9:17 AM
Woodbridge
Sorry Brian, a bit more.
The Bush freesat box--does it get HD?
Is it prone to a short life like the freeview boxes recently discussed?
Around Christmas there were some good make tvs with freesat tuner, and a 5 year guarantee. Now there appear to be none with either of these in my desired 32/37 inch preference. Panasonic was the one I looked at earlier as it seems flat tellies by and large have attrocious sound. Any good freesat tvs you know of, really don't want a mountain of boxes!
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Nick: The reason that your reception from Aldeburgh will change is that the shifting sands of UK and international frequency allocations during the last phase of digital switchover will result in some potential interference occurring to your Freeview Lite reception from Aldeburgh.
As for Freesat, if you already have a dish you just need a quad-LNB fitted to provide more outputs. They are £30 - Buy Quad Output Sky/Sky+ LNB at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for Free to air satellite.
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This is because each LNB in the package requires both a power supply and signal to select the appropriate signal polarity.
This does mean there has to be a cable from each receiver (and "+" boxes have two) to the LNB.
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