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 25/11/2024 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
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Wednesday, 23 November 2011
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Tim C12:05 AM
Mark I have set my TV to only have analogue at the moment (disconnected my Digibox) and now there is only C4 and C5 on. BBC1 and ITV have gone. BBC1 went just as the film staretd at about 1145.
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Tim C12:07 AM
C5 gone as well at 1206, thats it no Analogue on Tac.
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John Ramsbottom12:10 AM
BBC1 analogue at Thetford and presumably also Tacolneston, went off at 23.48. I was feeling nostalgic and taking a photo of a Ceefax page and realised at the same time that the Ceefax clock wasn't changing. I then suddenly realised that the normal picture and sound had gone. Fortunately my TV held the Ceefax page for the camera which was rather handy. With the time now at about 00.05 CH4 has just gone off and I've found that ITV has also gone. The end of an era for East Anglia.
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Mark Fletcher12:21 AM
Halifax
Tim C.Thank you very much for filling me in and every other Tacolneston freeview viewers,as far as analogue closedown on the old Taccy mast is concerned.The next stage now turns to the low powered pre-digital Mux's 2,A,B,C,D which here too are due for switch off on Taccy's old mast.On the new mast very soon the new high powered mux's SDN on fr 42,ArqA on fr 45,ArqB on fr 50,D3+4 on fr 59,BBCB (HD) on fr 62 will soon all be gradually turned on,joining BBCA on fr 55 that was already switched on 2 weeks earlier on the new Taccy mast.
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Tim C12:21 AM
Interesting I just lost C5 on Freeview C4 also went. I did a factory reset after the analogue signal was switched off and they were all OK.
Just doing another reset and rescan now.
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Tim C12:24 AM
Thanks Mark, I didnt realise there would be a time when channels were not available. looks as though the mux switching is happening now, I just did a rescan and C4 and C5 are not showing, I think the scan reported 47 channels found and the one I did a few mins after analogue reported 85.
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Mark Fletcher12:29 AM
Halifax
Also by the way let me apologise for getting my predictions that i posted on Tue 22 Nov 2011,6:22pm somewhat incorrect.Only my forecast of BBC1 analogue going first and Channel 4 analogue going third or second last (penultimate) were correct,the rest were wrong such as the timings,Sorry folks !
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Tim C12:33 AM
Mark I blame you. ;-)
Interesting happenings with freeview now, last scan only gave 10 channels. I wonder if the Postcode reference info has not been updated yet? on my digibox it give start frequency of K21 474mhz and End of K68 850mh (looks OK to me).
Time for another scan I think.
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Mark Fletcher12:55 AM
Halifax
Tim C.I take that as a compliment.By the way does your digibox have a manual scan facility as well as an automatic one.Try manual scan if yer can.
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