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 27/11/2023 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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Friday, 9 December 2011
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Neil12:22 PM
I'm in Braintree.
Back in July I was very happy with lovely signal strength and picture quality on all my Freeview Channels following the Digital Switchover - so I know there's nothing wrong with my kit - since November this year Film 4 and ITV 4 to name a couple are now mostly unwatchable (they went briefly altogether fo a few days. Something clearly happened but what - could someone please explain it to me and explain who I talk to or what I have to do to get my July quality of service back?
I don't recall anyone warning of any changes to the service beyond those of the July switchover so, in reading these pasts, if they have changed something surely reducing the quality of service is something that OFCOM would never allow?
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mike cant7:31 PM
Braintree
neil see above - i hadthe same - now solved
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mike's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 10 December 2011
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Norm De Plume5:43 AM
Neil, in November, as part of the switchover for Tacolneston transmitter (the next one North of Sudbury) the carrier on Sudbury for Film4 etc. was moved to a higher frequency. This frequency, is difficult to receive for many aerials and receivers and, just to put the tin lid on it, the power is also very low. The reason that the power is low is so that it doesn't interfere with the Dover area.
Once Dover have finished their switchover, on 27th June 2012, a different frequency will be allocated which is both easier to receive and the power will go up to the full level.
So, you have a quandry - either put up with missing channels for the next 6 months, or invest money in upgrading your system, despite the fact that you've probably already had to do that once already.
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Stephen Ilott2:17 PM
Steve Ilott: I Must agree with david popperwell's comments. I live in the Clacton on sea area and after returning form holiday last week find that I have lost all freeview channels broadcast on band '50' i.e. Film4, Yesterday, ITV4 etc. Rang up the digital switchover people and was told that the Sudbury transmitter had technical issues Nov 17th (I think it was) and service had changed to channel 63 which I would need a new (band e) aerial for. My other option is to wait until 27 June when it will be fixed apparently.
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Sunday, 11 December 2011
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Vernon8:41 AM
Are the mux/channel allocations right on page Freeview on Sudbury TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
We have a lot of comments about poor quality on 63 but it does not appear in the Freview Muxes list.
(IP136SP)
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Kevin Hodges12:40 PM
Chelmsford
Think you're correct Vernon, it was on C50 until the last change. I'm sure the site administrators will note this and update when they have time. There's probably loads of changes happening at the moment and won't settle down until mid 2012, then we can all enjoy perfect Freeview! In the meantime you can always double check the channel numbers on the digitaluk site
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Kevin's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 12 December 2011
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Neil9:19 AM
Norm de Plume
Thnak you for a very succinct explanation of what has happened and the reasons behind it.
However I'm sure we're all equally shocked and distgusted that the transmitter engineers are able to do this, let alone without any prior warning or explanation, having already gone though a campaign to 'switchover' in the July - there was never anything said then that what need in July must be suitable for 'lower strength' signal coming in November.
How do I raise a complaint to these people - just directly with OFCOM?
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011
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Norm De Plume7:36 AM
Neil,
This was known about before the switchover; it was being talked about by Mike Dimmick on the 28th June, for instance. I think that it isn't the engineers' fault, but the fault of the people providing the information about the switchover.
To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that Briantist hasn't updated the info at the top of the page to show the true existing channels or the final timescale. It would save a lot of people being very confused because they just want to know what channels to search for and they don't have the time or knowledge to go back through 10 pages of posts about MUXes, modes, powers etc.
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Stephen5:08 PM
My Home Entertainment Products
Panasonic LCD TV - TX-32LXD700
Panasonic Diga DVD Recorder with Hard Drive - DMR-EX89EB
Panasonic Diga VHS/DVD recorder - DMR-EZ49VEB
We are also on the Sudbury transmitter.
When I recently purchased the DMR-EZ49VEB VHS/DVD recorder it displayed all the TV channels after setup. Yet since carrying out a 'New Channel' update recently I can no longer get Film4 or the Yesterday channels to show in the TV Guide+ listing. I have re-tuned automatically and manually following both the manual book instructions and DigitalUK's instructions until I'm blue in the face. But still they will not show.
Am I doing something wrong?
By the way, both Film4 and the Yesterday channels show up fine on the TX-32LXD700 TV and the DMR-EX89EB DVD recorder, with excellent picture quality. So I am obviously receiving a good signal.
HELP please!!
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Stephen: Well, as the saying goes, two out of three ain't bad.
Bearing in mind that there are lots of people that can't get these channels now, you are doing well.
Not all devices are of equal sensitivity.
You could take the VHS/DVD to another aerial socket if you have one; or plug it straight into the aerial outlet if it's via another device or extension lead.
Or try wiping the tuned channels on the VHS/DVD and manually tuning them all, doing C63 first.
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