Full Freeview on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter which serves 330,000 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.
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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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Tacolneston 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Tacolneston transmitter?
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 16km northeast (37°)
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, 16km northeast (38°)
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?
Gt Yarmouth | Transposer | 1 km S town centre | 30 homes |
Lowestoft (2) | Transposer | Rotterdam Rd | 125 homes |
How will the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 17 Jul 2018 | ||
VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | E | E T | W T | W T | ||
C3 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
C32 | _local | ||||||||
C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
C39 | +ArqB | +ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
C40 | BBCA | ||||||||
C42 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
C43 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C45 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
C46 | BBCB | ||||||||
C50tv_off | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
C52tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C55tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | -BBCA | -BBCA | -BBCA | com7tv_off | ||
C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
C57tv_off | LNR | LNR | |||||||
C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
C62 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 9 Nov 11 and 23 Nov 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 | |
com7 | (-9.6dB) 27.4kW | |
com8 | (-10.2dB) 24kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, LNR | (-14dB) 10kW | |
Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 5kW | |
Analogue 5 | (-18dB) 4kW |
Local transmitter maps
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Thursday, 7 June 2018
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Hardy11:24 AM
Gareth . sorry I read north west Suffolk ! north east suffolk ( say west of Southwold) the transmitter would be Tacolneston . From the coverage checker seems that an outdoor amplified aerial is needed. Preferably a type K aerial though B or E should work.
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Saturday, 9 June 2018
I find the DigitalUK coverage predictions hard to fathom. Here they show the main six MUXes (100kW) in the orange ('variable reception') category but COM7/8 (27kW/24kW) in the green ('good reception') category. What would explain the lower-powered services providing better reception than the higher-powered ones, at the same distance? It's definitely not what we experience in practice (COM7 is not receivable and COM8 is marginal).
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Bill4:54 PM
What's happened to BBC News HD and several nearby HD channels? These have gone missing today (09/06/2018) - North of Norwich. Re-tuning is not the answer!
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Keith Saunders5:42 PM
Hello,
I had to retune because the people who run the Tacolneston transmitter made that a necessity. How I cannot receive BBC 4, but all the other ones are fine. Prior to this I could receive them all. So I quite the program and re booted my PC before retuning but to no avail. So what next? Should I try to retune after 7PM when the channel is transmitting? Any ideas? Thanks, Keith
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Keith Saunders8:04 PM
Keith:
So I retuned again, after 7PM and now the channel has appeared. Awesome! Thanks to whoever made that possible. May it long continue. Cheers!
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Sunday, 10 June 2018
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Derek Woollestone8:44 AM
Dereham
NR20 3TD
loft aerial
since the Tacolneston retune on 6.6. ,I have lost BBCNews, Aljazeera, etc. (Com7...channel 55) in spite of
6 rescans and restoring factory settings. There was never a problem before.TV is a 2 year old Panasonic
4k.
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Christopher & Yvonne Thrower12:13 PM
Transmitter engineering: No signal on BBC Newa HD or Ch 4 +1 from Tacolneston since Saturday
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Peter Chamberlin1:01 PM
Norwich
I'm not happy with losing BBC News HD, formerly of com-7 Channel 31 (554.0MHz)
Will this channel be reinstated in future from Tacolneston? My postcode: NR4 7SF (loft aerial)
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MikeP
2:42 PM
2:42 PM
Peter Chamberlin:
BBC News HD is on Com7 which is now on channel 55 (Com 8 is on channel 56). It could be that your original aerial is unable to receive thee higher channels, hence the apparent loss of the service. You need to retune and check what reception of Com 7 is like on channel 55. If it is weak, then you need a wideband aerial installed. If you do not have a satellite service or cable, then you may qualify for a free aerial replacement by contacting 0808 100 0288 which is the Freeview Advice Line number.
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MikeP
2:52 PM
2:52 PM
Christopher & Yvonne Thrower:
Have you done a full retune? Some changes were implimented over night and you need a retune to get your channels back. You may also need an aaerial change to get channels 55 and 56 for Com 6 and Com 7 services as you existing aerrial may not receive them now.
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