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 04/11/2024 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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Tuesday, 15 November 2011
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Jane Hore7:10 PM
Nothing working now.
Signal Strength 0%
What a nightmare.........
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Keith10:57 PM
Collegue at work has the 37 inch version of my Sony kdl 40ex403 and he had the hd channels appear all be it temporally on his set.. Bringing pictures in to prove the fact we are both in ip256xs and I know we officially don't get hd till the 23rd has tacolneston been doing tests?? The reason I ask is I bought this set a year ago and don't want to find there's a fault after waiting all this time for hd to go live in this area.. I have a newly installed digital aerial mounted outside.. Cheers
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Wednesday, 16 November 2011
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Mark Fletcher2:53 AM
Norwich
Jon,Norwich.West Runton most unlikely to affect your signal quality as such,Overstrand probably also unlikely to affect your signals too.The most likely effect is what i mentioned previously that being the "Inversion Effect" happening over the last few days or so mainly over eastern UK,and until low pressure weather systems sweep in soon you will have to put up with it until the weather becomes unsettled.
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Mark Fletcher3:01 AM
Halifax
Correction to my above post.My location is Halifax not Norwich.My apologises for inputting the incorrect location.
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jb388:26 AM
Keith: As far as I can see there shouldn't be any problems with that model of TV, and although the temporary appearance of HD could of course be due to tests being carried out, it could however also be because the TV has picked up a weak HD signal from elsewhere that is hovering just under the reception threshold of the set, the "elsewhere" referred to being either Sudbury / Rouncefall / Belmont or Sandy, as these are indicated as possibilities under the category of being "variable".
A simple way to check this possibility being, if the EPG has anything stored in the 50 / 54 range click on it and carry out a signal check, as even although the screen may be blank, should any weak signal be in existence just under the reception threshold then the multiplex channel number associated with it will be shown, anything other than Mux Ch62 not being Tacolneston.
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Ed Slade9:37 AM
East Grinstead
I live in Felbridge near East Grinstead and for the last 6 days I and my neighbours have had poor reception of BBC1,2 ITV 1,2 Ch 4 and Ch5. We are all on freeview. When I say poor reception the picture breaks up and then disappears and will then return momentarily and then disaapear again. I canot seem to find anyone to talk to to find a solution to the issue.
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Jon: If you follow the link to "Digital UK tradeview" by your name it will take you to the Digital UK predictor.
West Runton is predicted as being quite good where you are. Note that it is only since 9th November that it has been broadcasting digital (BBC only) which might explain why you've never had this issue with BBC channels. On 23rd the rest of its analogue will be switched off and replaced by ITV/C4/C5/HD on digital.
If the problem you are having affects only BBC channels, then perhaps it could be because it's tuned to West Runton which is at 2kW.
If you believe this to be the case, the simplest and most generic solution I can advise is to start the autotune scan with the aerial unplugged and plug it in when it gets to 25%. This should have it disconnected when it scans West Runton's frequency.
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Jon4:34 PM
Norwich
Thanks Dave,
Other channels have been poor at times but I do think the West Runton change has affected things.
I'm off out soon so I'll try a retune(s - I also use mythtv) skipping the West Runton frequencies tomorrow.
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Thursday, 17 November 2011
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kevk1:45 PM
Since the first switch over date I've lost everything but BBC channels? Will everything else come back on the second switch over date?
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