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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Wednesday, 31 August 2011
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m e perry9:17 PM
if you retune your digi box without the aerial lead in, when you get to channel 51 put your aerial lead in, that should sort out all your problems
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Monday, 5 September 2011
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david faulkner11:37 PM
Question on aerial boosters post switch over
Served from Tacolneston (just !) I have a Televes DAT45 with MRD amplifier built in which feeds into a 4 way distribution amplifier.
F/V signal strength is around 75% and (according to the TV & F/V boxes) 100% error free, indeed we can pick up all the available channels whereas prior to F/V we couldn't really get a good channel 5 pic at all.
I am assuming that post switchover I will have to reduce the gain of the distribution amp or fit an attenuator on the Televes aerial output so a) what is the recommended procedure and b) what happens if I don't ?
On analog TV I recall that the picture would have black bars if the signal was to strong.
thanks
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Tuesday, 6 September 2011
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jb387:44 AM
david faulkner: Put in basic terms, if the tuner in whatever Freeview device you are using is overloaded it will either totally block reception altogether by swamping of its input circuitry, or if the signal is slightly over the top in power is very likely cause erratic reception in the same way as can be experienced when a signal is being received that is just hovering above the reception threshold of the equipment being used, in other words the picture breaking up or disappearing at random as the signal level being received fluctuates slightly.
Needless to say this can vary between different brands of equipment because the varying sensitivity levels of the tuners being used, but in cases of excessively strong RF signal overloading a whole range of odd symptoms can be experienced.
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Friday, 9 September 2011
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Terry11:10 AM
I am using the RF OUT connection on my Sky Box to carry signal to another television which has a freeview box connected to it. The Freeview reception is fine, the Sky Channel signal shown on the the remote television is now pretty poor. Is the strong freeview signal interfering with the sky channel? Is there anything I can do to correct this? Will it get worse when our transmitter is switched over to digital in November?
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Saturday, 10 September 2011
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Terry12:40 PM
Briantist
Many thanks for the reference. I have changed the RF output on my Sky HD box and now have a perfect picture on my remote TV once more
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Lee Donaghy1:55 PM
Moving Mux C to C68 is proving a pain, oh well i'll put up with it until they move them around again in November.
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Lee Donaghy: And BBCB will have to move again because C62 is going to be used for 4G mobile phones...
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Monday, 12 September 2011
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Mark Fletcher11:15 PM
Halifax
Sorry to break the bad news folks,but after the final stage switchover for Tacolneston transmitter viewers,from Wednesday 23 November 2011 onwards,the current Group C/D aerials (ch's 48-68) for Tacolneston will probably need changing to preferably a Group E type aerial (ch's 35-68),as on the above date 2 of the 6 frequencies,SDN on ch 42 and ArqA on ch 45 will be out of the Group C/D range,the other 4 frquencies on ch 50 ArqB,ch 55 BBCA,ch 59 D3+4 and ch 62 BBCB (HD) will remain within Group C/D range.A wideband or Group W aerial can be used as an alternative as these aerials although quite useless for lower frequencies are quite good for higher frequency channels especially in the case of Tacolneston after switchover.
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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