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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter._______
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
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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Friday, 29 June 2018
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StevensOnln17:34 PM
AndyF: Put your postcode in to Digital UK's checker and tick the detailed view box to get a list of the current and future planned frequency allocations for all transmitters predicted to be receivable at your location.
Digital UK - Coverage checker
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Hardy10:49 PM
Steve there has been some recent work on the Lowestoft transmitter especially in the morning. Probably in connection with the recent frequency changes. If you click on the word Lowestoft it should take you to the page for that tranmitter
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StevensOnln111:15 PM
Hardy: There was a warning of reduced quality for the Lowestoft transmitter early this morning, however there is nothing else showing for the last few weeks. Planned engineering work is generally not undertaken during major events such as the World Cup unless in response to a fault.
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Saturday, 30 June 2018
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Mardler2:43 PM
Earlier this week the following stations were dead:-
Ch4+1, 109, COM7
BBC4HD, 106, COM8
More4, 14, PSB2
The first two were expected following the power reduction and tropospheric conditions may not have helped. Why on earth a main BBC HD channel is on the lowest ERP is beyond belief.
More4 is intriguing because all other stations on that mux were fine.
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Sunday, 1 July 2018
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stephen jones8:00 AM
signal coming and going for the few days no channels then they come back ip241ln
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MikeP
4:54 PM
4:54 PM
Stephen Jones:
The current warm weather is causing tropospheric lift and that caues the symptoms you give. DO NOT RETUNE. It is a perfectly natural even that has happened ever since we started using UHF signals for TV transmissions in the 1960's.
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DJB10:38 PM
This weather has finally allowed me to tune my BT Youview box into Com7 and Com8.
The picture through the box disappears during the day. Through the TV tuner it's available 24/7.
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Tuesday, 3 July 2018
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Chris8:23 AM
I too find my BT YouView box to be less sensitive for Com 7 and 8. Do Humax boxes suffer from the same problem?
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Hardy2:45 PM
some if not all BT youview boxes are made by Humax. Com7 and 8 are transmitted on lower power than the standard channels .
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