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 09/09/2024 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?
| 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, 22 November 2019
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Chris.SE11:43 PM
Chris Wright:
As MikeP says we need a full postcode to look at what Freeview are giving as your predicted reception. With a new (different) TV, the tuner sensitivity may be more or less than your previous set. Whilst too strong a signal is a possibility, too weak a signal is also possible.
LCNs 48 & 50 are now transmitted on Local multiplexes which are transmitted at lower power than the others. As you haven't said you are having problems with other multiplexes, I'm wondering that because the Local multiplex is not radiated in your direction it's possible it could be too weak a signal.
There's also the Local station at LCN7, Sony Movies+1 at LCN60 & TinyPop at LCN207 - are you getting the same problem with those? Did you get the Local station before with your previous set?
Do you still have the other set, is it showing the same problem?
If you can post back with that postcode and the current signal strengths and quality from your TV's tuning section for each multiplex - I wouldn't worry too much about what the exact values are at present, each model of set can be different, they are fairly arbitrary from manufacturer to manufacturer.
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Sunday, 29 December 2019
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Mrs oliver5:40 PM
Got Netflix bbc1 not much elsr no channels
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J Clark6:25 PM
Mrs oliver:
Same here. Area IP19 , says Tacolneston Transmitter has no problems.
Is this correct ?
Tried a re tune & was tuned to North Est of England
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J Clark6:28 PM
As Mrs Oliver states no reception in our area, IP19.
Says no problems with Tacolneston but I doubt if this is correct.
Did TV/ Humax box retune & was tuned to North West England!
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Tim8:35 PM
Mrs oliver: here in Torbay we have bbc1 intermittent and nothing else 29122019
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Monday, 30 December 2019
C
Chris.SE3:02 AM
Mrs oliver, J Clark & Tim:
There are unusually high levels of "Tropospheric propagation" at present, often associated with High Pressure weather systems.
These levels of propagation are unusual at this time of year - they cause signals from more distant transmitters to travel a lot further than normal. It is currently affecting different parts of the country by varying degrees and signals can change by the second or remain stable for much longer periods.
In the old "analogue" days there was a lot of talk about "continental" interference often in the summer months, but the interference can come from transmitters anywhere in the UK or Europe and even further afield. At the moment some people are getting DAB radio from the Netherlands and FM Radio from France as well as the interference to DTV.
It is predicted to continue for a couple more days, and you are advise NOT to retune as you will likely lose the correct tuning that you had. The "propagation" can be very frequency dependent, and it can only affected one frequency or several, but it can/will be different for others.
People will however have noticed the unusually mild weather which the Met office is referring to as a "Foehn effect" but it's not helpful that it seems none of the major broadcasters are making any reference to the interference being caused to TV and Radio reception! So it's no surprise that people wonder what is going on and think there is a transmitter problem.
For those that have retuned and lost correct tuning, you will have to try again and it could be hit and miss whilst the unusual propagation continues. If you are able to do a manual tune for the correct UHF channels, you may still receive interference or the wrong programmes.
The correct UHF channels for Tacolneston are C40, C43, C46, C42, C45, C39, C55, C56, C32 for multiplexes PSBs1-3, COMs4-8 & Local. If you don't have a HD tuner ignore C46/C55/C56. Reception of multiplexes will depend on location especially COMs7&8 & Local which may not be received.
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c cheyne 10:09 AM
when we reset the tv we either get bbc London or bbc Cambridge , just want to know if you are having difficultys with tacolstone
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c cheyne 10:19 AM
thank you for this information but it doesn't seem much progress when we haven't had a signal for 2 days already and are told it will last another 2 ,I thought in this digital age things were meant to be better at least I can tell my husband I was right and it is the weather :)
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Chris.SE1:56 PM
c cheyne :
If we were still in the old "analogue" days, the signal would still be completely unwatchable. The propagation is unusually high for this time of year.
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Tuesday, 31 December 2019
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Hurren2:08 PM
Signal is interrupted frequently for about 5 days now getting fed up as 3 days I had no tv retuned tv still having problems
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