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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Thursday, 29 September 2011
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Malcolm Shepherd9:42 PM
King's Lynn
david faulkner: I live in North Norfolk and my aerial points to Tacolneston, and I can all so pick up the four HD chanels. In my case I know for a fact there are coming from the Belmont tranmitter. Occasional the signal breaks up a little, but not often. I look froward to picking them up from Tacolneston.
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Malcolm's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
david bennett: Please can you see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
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Saturday, 1 October 2011
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donny12:51 PM
Serious disruption on Talconeston Today.
Mux 1 is out, Also Mux 2.
But at least i have Mux C back after almost 2 weeks without it.
I suppose this disruption will continue till Nov 13th when they finally finish.
I do not understand why it is taking 3 months for the transition period.. ditch the damn anlogue signal and pump up the digital streams wattage out now!!
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donny12:53 PM
oops i meant the 23rd Nov, Nov 13th is when BBC2 is moved to another frequency and 2 weeks later the switchover will be complete.
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Sunday, 2 October 2011
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Bob8:12 AM
Brandon
Once stage 2 switchover has taken place on Tacholneston, will ALL MUXs be on full power 100KW from the new higher mast? Or will there be further messing about, as with Sandy heath (I live on the fringe of both TXs)
Thanks Bob
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Bob's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Crocklebog5:40 PM
Harleston
Hi Bob
All sorted on the 23rd Nov at 100KW ERP for all MUXES - I've had problems with reception just 17KM away on some MUXES (especially since things changed) and in Suffolk also picking up the main MUXES from Belmont too. Down the road Sudbury is flying in on the main MUXES (low power reception is not possible). Have picked up Sudbury and Sandy here nr Bungay.
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Crocklebog's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 3 October 2011
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david faulkner10:25 PM
Bob
Sunday 2 October 2011 8:12AM
1 day ago Brandon.....
Just a minor point but the new digital mast at Taccy is actually shorter.......
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Wednesday, 5 October 2011
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Mike Smith11:02 AM
David Faulkner I believe the post you made about the Taccy mast is incorrect. The old mast is 541ft (165 meters)and the new one is 676ft {206.1 metres high. I saw the the new mast and it was already higher than the old one even before the aerial array was mounted on the top.
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graham1:11 PM
I had an Aerial upgrade many years ago, The chap who installed it was very helpful but he said i might need to get him back after the DSO, he advised a wideband aerial and one with hig gain (my aeriel HAS to be loft mounted)
I have had good reception on Freeview with this set up since 2006
Where i live in Norwich city centre (about 700m from the City Centre transmitter on Mousehold Heath. All my neighbours etc are pointing at Tacolneston (about 11 miles away) and this is where my aerial is pointed.Since August 27th i have suffered with lost muxes and some disruption. I assume this is down to the DSO starting as upto then i had flawless Freeview.
My TV says green signal (green/yellow/orange/red with an SNR value
i have full green signal bar and 30 dB avg on 5 muxes and 27 - 24 dB on Mux A but the green bar drops to about 90% with the dB flucuation (
So my main question is after 23rd November when the transmission watts are increased, am i at risk of too much signal?
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graham1:16 PM
Reply to Mike Smith & David Faulkner
All the info on the old and new transmitters at this link (including pictures)
The BigTower Tacolneston Transmitter
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