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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Monday, 16 January 2012
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Mark Fletcher5:02 PM
Halifax
Dave Dubya.Yes,look up inversion effect.
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012
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Dave Dubya11:54 AM
Cheers Mark, I thought that may be the case.
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Pat B9:33 PM
Clacton-on-sea
States nothing wrong with Sudbury transmitter so can anyone tell me why when we retuned we ended up with Calender news which I gather covers Leeds area instead of Anglia news
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Pat B: Because your TV tuned to the Belmont transmitter which is in Lincolnshire or Emley Moor in Yorkshire. These signals came available to you so far away due to the inversion effect.
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Mark Fletcher10:11 PM
Halifax
Pat B.Clacton-on-Sea.If has you stated you received Calendar News,if this is on frequency 25 then yer signals due to inversion effect will come from the Belmont mast,if on frequency 44 from Emley Moor.Look up inversion effect,this is the cause not a transmitter fault at Sudbury mast.
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Mark Fletcher10:23 PM
Halifax
Pat B.I forgot to add if yer receiving Calendar and its from Emley Moor (D3+4 mux on fr 44) you may temporarily until inversion ends find that it clashes with Sudbury's BBCA mux also on fr 44,causing potential (temporary) loss of signal on that multiplex.If the Calendar news is on frequency 25 (D3+4 mux) it comes from Belmont transmitter.
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Sunday, 22 January 2012
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Dan5:35 PM
Dunmow
Please move Film 4 and associated channel off C63. Since this is a low power mux and a high frequency I am now having problems receiving it since the latest retune. I have a new wide band aerial installation with separate direct feeds to both TV and PVR. Despite this the use of C63 is causing dropouts.
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Monday, 23 January 2012
Dan: As above
"Arqiva B will remain on its pre-switchover channel (50+) until late 2011, and then temporarily move to channel 63 (at 2.2kW ERP), before adopting its final allocation of channel 56 during mid-2012"
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Norm De Plume12:08 PM
Stowmarket
Dan,
You need to direct such comments to the people who actually control Freeview. This website is just here to help people make the best of their TV service and is run on a voluntary basis.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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Chris Gardiner11:23 AM
Are there any known problems at the moment with Arq B from Sudbury? My three Freeview receivers all report no signal from all the channels on this Mux. Arq A remains perfect.
I am in North Chelmsford.
I did a retune in November 2011 and all 5 Mux were working satisfactoraly, I don't have Freeview HD.
I cannot believe that my aerial will stop working on Ch63 over a period of six weeks without there being some noticeable degradation on the other Muxs.
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