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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Thursday, 24 November 2011
Graham Kemp: That would have been correct before yesterday, but now you should be able to pick up HD from Tacolneston.
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Saturday, 26 November 2011
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Dave Pointer10:02 PM
Now the DSO is complete can anybody recommend the best channel to use for 'V+ rf out' in the Thorpe st Andrew area. I'm using CH68 at the minute but the picture quality isn't the best!
Cheers
DP
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Monday, 28 November 2011
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Alistair McNeill12:21 PM
I am not getting all of the freeview channels listed. I get only 31 in total. Please advise if this will increase. Thanks
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Alistair McNeill: Please can you give us your post code so we can give a more accurate answer?
What channels are you getting? Is it just BBC, ITV1, ITV1+1, ITV2, C4, C4+1, E4, More4, C5? What else do you get?
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Graham Kemp12:49 PM
Beccles
Took my freeview box back to the shop and said it was faulty - got a replacement and now get all HD channels. Thanks everyone for your advice
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Graham's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Lynne4:35 PM
Stowmarket
As of last week the tv in our kitchen (which has built in freeview) was picking all the digital channels up no prob. But since last week we now have to retune our tv everytime we turn it on, or the only channels we get are BBC channels. Once we have retuned and stored the channels it is fine, but I don't want to have to retune it everytime we turn it on! The Ariel is on the roof and is pointing towards Tacolneston our postcode is IP14 3JA. All the other tv's in the house are fine.
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Lynne's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb385:06 PM
Lynne: Try carrying out a complete factory re-set then re-tune on the offending set, as this type of problem is usually caused by trying to store more channels than the TV's memory is capable of, hence why they disappear when the set is switched off.
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Dave Harrison5:30 PM
We live in Hustanton North Norfolk, how can we get east anglia tv reception for local news ,we get Yorkshire at the moment.
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Dave Harrison: There are a number of relay transmitters of Tacolneston south of The Wash.
See here:
http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
You might be able to receive from one of these and use Belmont to get the rest of the commercial channels. This will require a second aerial.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011
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Ann2:24 PM
Freeview is driving us mad! For a period of about three weeks before the switchover in my area (East Anglia Tacolneston transmitter) we began to lose channels with broken and locked picture. Since the switchover this has become far worse, I have completely re-tuned the machines (two fairly new TVs + Humax recorder) as per instructions but it remains impossible to watch any programmes. I have a new high-gain aerial, and I have two small TVs in other rooms which have re-tuned perfectly please can anyone help?!
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