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.
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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Tuesday, 2 March 2021
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Chris.SE3:21 PM
RichardB:
As you probably know, there is Planned Engineering work listed this week at Tacolneston, but I don't believe that the SDL multiplex is transmitted from Tacolneston unless it's been very very recently added, so this is unlikely to be what's affecting things. I'd have thought you are more likely to be getting it from the Stoke Holy Cross transmitter just to the SSE of Norwich as that multiplex isn't listed as transmitted from the Caister relay. What the predicted reception is gong to be like for your locale is uncertain, it could be marginal.
As you also probably know, it's like trying to get blood out of a stone to get any detailed information about the engineering work on the commercial multiplexes, you could try contacting Arqiva.
If all your other stations on the SDL multiplex are fine, you could try retuning to see if that solves it, otherwise it'll be a wait for them to sort the problem.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2021
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David3:49 PM
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Hi, is there a problem with the COM7 mux today?.... we are having very low signal strength and even lower signal quality on all the COM7 channels
IP23 8LP
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 15 July 2021
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Chris.SE4:26 AM
David:
The transmitter is currently listed for Planned Engineering so you may well see periodic reductions in power or service interruptions whilst the work is being carried out. Do not retune in those circumstances.
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david7:55 AM
Chris.SE:
OK, thanks....just seemed strange that only that mux was affected
do you know why I am not receiving email updates to this forum?... I am not signed up for the daily updates but the "email me updates" box is ticked
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david7:56 AM
OK, thanks....just seemed strange that only that mux was affected
do you know why I am not receiving email updates to this forum?... I am not signed up for the daily updates but the "email me updates" box is ticked
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Friday, 16 July 2021
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Chris.SE4:35 AM
david:
Although there were some odd problems with email updates a while ago, mine (weekly) have been working recently.
The system may not be correctly recognising each of your posts as being from the same person as the cumulative post count for you doesn't seem to be correctly updating.
Try checking that your details are correctly entered in the system using the Mail Icon at the top RHS of the page and that it's the identical email address and name in the boxes etc when you post.
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Sunday, 15 August 2021
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david faulkner8:59 PM
Hi Chris.se...thanks for your reply and apologies for the delay in response
I checked the email envelope and I get a fatal error message...I cannot paste it here for some reason
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Monday, 16 August 2021
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Chris.SE4:19 AM
david faulkner:
Hi David, hopefully the site owner will be able to resolve this problem.
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Tuesday, 17 August 2021
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David Faulkner10:19 AM
still having major problems with COM7 channels...the signal strength remains reasonable at around 70% but the quality is varying between 100 and 38% which is clearly the problem.....but what is the cause???.....ALL other muxes are received at 100% signal and 100% quality with no variance at all
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Chris.SE3:11 PM
David Faulkner:
Tacolneston was listed for Planned Engineering for 3 weeks in July. We don't know what the work was, but from information that is appearing in various places, there's a possibility it was in preparation for some 700MHz Mobile equipment. Work may have still been going on despite not being listed, the lists haven't been that accurate of late!
Just to complicate matters further, some Tropospheric Ducting has appeared in some places causing interference from other transmitters. Some predictions are showing this could get worse for a few days as the week progresses. But that will depend of whether the current weather forecasts change in any way which might have a significant effect on that.
However, if there are any new 700MHz mobile transmissions near you (do you have any mobile masts within say a couple of hundred metres) that could be deafening your receiver a bit. I note from your post that you have 100% signal, do you have an amp/distribution system? If so, if the amp has a gain control, turn it down a bit until the other mux signals just start to drop from 100% to make sure you aren't overloading the front ends anywhere. See if that has any effect on COM7 quality.
If you have a mobile phone that covers the 700MHz band, you might be able to get it to scan to see if there are any strong transmissions in the band.
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