Full Freeview on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter
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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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) mast?
Tacolneston transmitter - Tacolneston transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 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
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?
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| 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
Tacolneston Freeview Tacolneston DAB Tacolneston TV region BBC East Anglia (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Tacolneston transmitter area
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Sunday, 10 June 2018
MikeP
2:54 PM
2:54 PM
Derek Woollestone:
It could be that your existing aerial is unable to receive channels 55 and 66 for Com 7 and Com 8. At change of aerial to a wideband type would be needed in that case. Call the Freeview advice line on 0808 100 0288 to see if you qualify for a free replacement of your aerial.
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Our Humax PVR is also currently reporting Tacolneston ch.55 (COM7) as having zero signal strength (COM8 on ch.56 is OK). This wasn't the case immediately following the 6/6 retune event, when both ch.55 and ch.56 were receivable, so looks to be something that has happened since. On a signal meter ch.56 is reading 50 dBV but ch.55 only 27 dBV which is noise level.
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Nick A5:01 PM
I have a wideband 48 element high gain aerial (fitted Nov 2017) and like others have lost BBC News HD, Channel 4+1, et al. According to my TV there is no signal on Channel 55. Like Richard Russell this was ok post the upgrade on 6 Jun 18 but has since disappeared.
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MR S MILLER5:22 PM
Dereham
I have lost 15 Freeview channels since the retune......y? i had 157 channels b4 the retune now i have only 142.......post code is nr19 2bn
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Paul Thompson5:50 PM
COM7 has been off air all day. I first noticed it had gone at about 10 p.m. yesterday evening. There does not seem to be any place to report faults these days. You'd think they would be aware of it by now but I am beginning to wonder.
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> I have lost 15 Freeview channels since the retune.
15 is exactly the number of services in COM7, which by all accounts is currently off-air from Tacolneston (channel 55). When it's back do another retune and hopefully all will be well.
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Simon Andrews7:13 PM
Tacolneston COM7 on ch55 is also conspicuous by its absence here in Lowestoft. COM8 on 56 is coming through full blast and even LOC1 (currently on 57) puts in a reliable appearance here on the north Suffolk coast, when it really probably shouldn't.
As reported by others, my various TVs and boxes initially reported a full signal on COM7 following the re-tune on 6 June - but when I tried to watch BBC News HD on Saturday morning... well you can guess the rest.
I'm pleased/relieved to read that others are also reporting a lack of COM7. Seems odd that an entire multiplex should - we assume - be off air for so long. I've not been able to find any official note of COM7's status anywhere online.
Where's Transmitter News on page 297 of Oracle when you need it?!
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Paul Thompson8:16 PM
Just a quick warning whilst we're waiting for further news about COM7 that the local mux from Tacolneston presently on 57 is due to move to 32 on July 17th and this is the channel also being used by the relay in Lowestoft, which means it will be lost to many who are more than a few miles south-east of Norwich. I doubt many will mourn the loss of That's Norfolk but some will have kids who watch POP Max and Tiny Pop, both of which are also carried on it.
This is presumably a result of them having fewer frequencies to reuse which means shoehorning more services into the same space, but it's a pity they couldn't find an alternative frequency which wouldn't have resulted in a clash like this.
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Peter Terry8:40 PM
MIssing BBC News HD since yesterday but sure it was there when I did the return on Wednesday. Looks like COM7 is down. Frustrating that there is nowhere to find out if there are any issues or not and the number I tried yesterday was unable to assist but wanted to follow their script of 'retune' if that does not work 'reset factory settings' etc.
Hoping that once COM7 back a retune should restore the missing channels :)
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Monday, 11 June 2018
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Colin2:44 AM
Same as all of the above, did the retune on June 6th, all channels working properly and all muxes received,
Friday lunchtime com7 and com8 disappeared, com8 eventually came back Friday evening and still receiving it, however com7 not been seen since Friday afternoon, it's now Monday morning.
No it's not my aerial, no it's not 4G interference blah blah blah,
I know there is reduced power on com7 and com8, but I am getting com8 fine at ch56 but only epg on com7 at ch55.
I also noticed on June 7th ITV4 SD looked much better than usual and all the HD channels look worse now, way too much contrast and lacking colour.
ITV4 SD was back to it's poor usual picture quality Friday though.
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