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 15/04/2024 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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Thursday, 29 June 2017
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MikeB9:56 PM
Peterborough
Christopher Webber: 6 feet away is fine for a 28-32in, but obviously something isn't quite right.
Can you check to see what the cycling is like on the main TV? If thats fine on cycling or other relatively fast moving action on same settings, then its the monitor. If they are both bad, then thats probably a more subjective thing. Obviously signal breakup (of your system) is down to the feed your getting.
And have you tried streaming content? If the BBC stream in SD is OK, then at least thats a benchmark. And while the digibox is the easiest way to get a signal, you can use tuner cards directly for your PC.
As far as I'm aware, there is nowhere that is 'switching to T2' - there are some retunes due to shuffling of the frequences, and that might mean some possible replacement aerials, but overall, if you've got a standard non T2 tuner, you still fine. Personally, I think a switch to T2 tuners only should be announced soon, since it would be pretty doable in the next couple of years, looking at the state of the market, but there you are. However, I would welcome a Brianist article on where any switchover is at present.
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Saturday, 1 July 2017
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Christopher Webber4:07 AM
Cheers for the reply,
I can confirm cycling loos as bad on the monitor as it does on the main TV (I watched the Criterium De Dauphine highlights a few weeks back on the main TV and it was the same.
The picture break-up I mentioned is due to the broadcaster pictures and not my feed from Tacolneston, sorry for the confusion.
I have tried to stream from the ITV Player, but that is the most rubbish piece of software on the Internet, it constantly crashes after enduring 8 minutes of adverts and then has to reset meaning another 8 minutes of adverts and then it may finally stream, before inevitably crashing with an 'oops, something went wrong' - so I gave up on it.
Regarding next years retune, I am confused, Brian stated that no channels would be lost, but how can no channels be lost if com7 and com8 will no longer be available if the other muxes do not change to T2 coding, I guess I am showing my lack of technical knowledge again.
com7 serves BBC News HD & BBC 4 HD, so does that mean they will no longer be available after next year?
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MikeB11:21 AM
Peterborough
Christopher Webber: Can't help you with the motion handling on the main TV either (whats the brand/model?), although its worth having a play with the settings (AV forum has a 14 point guide, but even 3-4 of those might really help). You'd be amazed at how many people leave it on the factory setting, etc Long term, I suspect a decent new TV will handle motion better.
As for the switchover, I can't find right now Brianists article on it, but there is one here: Upcoming Freeview transmitter changes 2017 to 2019 , and as you can see, it looks more like a mover around, so you should notice much difference. If your in North Norfolk, it could be that looking at Belmont is more useful (its that kind of area), and the worst that needs to happen is that you might need a new aerial.
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Monday, 24 July 2017
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david10:42 PM
any problems with channel 4+1 ?
tonight (24th Jul) it has been intermittently showing no signal
all other stations seem to be OK ...I don't understand how that can be if they are all on the same mux.
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StevensOnln110:53 PM
david: Please provide a full postcode so that we can see which transmitters cover your location and where you are in relation to them. It may be that your TV has tuned Channel 4 +1 from a different transmitter. Also, have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV?
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Tuesday, 25 July 2017
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david1:40 AM
Eye
IP23 8LP
tuned to Tacolneston only I believe
I haven't checked for damaged cables etc......surely that would affect more than one channel ?
thanks
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10:33 AM
10:33 AM
david:
Damaged cables or poor connections does cause selective attentuation, it's a well known occurence and it is impossible to predict which frequencies will be affected by any particular cable fault. So it is very good practice to carefully check all the cables and all the signal connections, unplugging the aerial plug and then re-inserting them into their sockets - making sure you put the same cable back.
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david10:27 PM
OK, thanks.
my setup is as follows : Televes DAT45, (NECESSARY before DTTV but in bypass since) on roof feeding into Antiference 4 way distribution amp feeding 3 rooms.
I checked the signal levels and quality on all the TV's and found them to be 9 and 10 respectively apart from the chan 4+1, so today I re-connected the power unit to the aerial and turned the gain on the distribution amp right down to min (don't panic - I AM aware of the issues regarding signal overload) and the signal has come up to 10 along with the quality except for chan 4+1HD which is way better but only about 7/10 signal and 60% quality - again I am aware that quality and BER are more important than signal alone.
Would the aerial group now be un-suitable for Tacolneston I wonder?
ps...off topic but I am not receiving email updates when people reply......
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david10:41 PM
...oh, and I am using high quality double screened + copper foil RG6 cable and high quality full brass plugs with soldered pins throughout - I replaced the whole lot a few years ago :)
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Wednesday, 26 July 2017
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MikeB11:20 AM
Peterborough
david: 'No signal' can also occur when you've got too much signal, and having 100% signal would certainly count as that.
However, if the whole mux is 30% below everything else (and its got hr same power output as the others), then thats most likely a problem with a cable, as Mike P said.
But since you turned down the gain, and the quality went up, that sounds like too much signal.
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