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?
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| 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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Sunday, 24 June 2012
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Norman12:08 PM
I have just purchased a new Toshiba LCD TV with a built in Freeview tuner. On the first installation it acquired some but not all of the channels that I previously received on my old TV via a separate Freeview Box. The missing ones are Yesterday, Film 4 etc, all on the COM6/ARQ MUX I believe. However, I can still receive these channels on another TV using a separate digi box with the same aerial and signal amplifier. Any suggestions of how to proceed would be welcome.
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Monday, 2 July 2012
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david12:46 AM
Norman,
Fly lead between wall & TV OK ?
I proved black was blue a while ago after purchasing some so called "digital" gold plated blue sheathing fly leads and "lost" several channels .....no, I didn't believe it either but replacement with leads made up with CTT100 cable made an immediate and somewhat un-believable improvement !
I think the problem was that rather than being faulty, the cheap leads allowed some interference in which was swamping the signal and causing the loss.
Might be worth a try.......I was so impressed I re-cabled the whole house in CTT100 cable, from aerial to outlet to TV and now don't get any interference or drop outs at all :)
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david12:51 AM
In response yo my post on 3rd June ....... the problem we are having affects the Com4 / SDN mux transmitting on channel 42 and NOT mux A....somewhere along the line I got confused with the numbering and referred to the pre DSO mux group ....apologies to all.
By LOWERING (!!) the aerial about 4ft I managed to get the signal strength on chan 42 up whilst the others dropped by a few uV so I now have a more even spread across the channels.
The tx is 208m high and 64m above sea level, my aerial is about 11m high and we are 40m above sea level so I have angled it up a few degrees which also helped slightly.
What I can't understand though is if they are all coming from the same transmitter and all leaving at 100KW then why are we receiving them at significantly different field strengths and why did lowering the aerial increase it ?
I have always believed that higher = better with a 3dB increase for every 6ft higher.
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Tuesday, 3 July 2012
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david9:53 PM
following advice on another forum I have fitted a variable attenuator to reduce the signal strength on the other channels from 10/10 to around 9/10 which has resulted in chan 42 dropping to around 6/10 with an increase in errors and de-crease in quality to the poing where the picture breaks up.
So, what's the answer ?????
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Wednesday, 4 July 2012
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Mark Fletcher4:27 PM
Halifax
I have just noticed an anomaly to the above regarding Tacolneston come 2013 onwards.BBCB (HD) multiplex currently on frequency 62 will have to relocate due to the 800mhz clearance to frequency 50.Yet at present on frequency 50 is the ArqB multiplex which has to relocate elsewhere to accomodate the ultimately reallocated BBCB (HD) mux from fr 62 to fr 50.But looking at the above 2013 and 2015? possibilities no ArqB which i suspect will move to frequency 39 but is not stated as such for 2013 and 2015?
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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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david6:20 PM
Eye
I am seriously considering turning the aerial round 180 degrees and using Sudbury- gasp !! - as it's wideband it will work and when I briefly tried it I got a more even (but slightly lower) amplitide level across all the muxes.
I find this strange as the channels are similar and although Sudbury is further away I can amplify the signal if needed.
Couldn't do that until now as it wasn't full DSO.....but now it is.......:)
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david's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Mark Fletcher: yes, it is c39+ ... not sure why it doesn't show it.
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Thursday, 5 July 2012
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david8:12 AM
Eye
Briantist
Wednesday 4 July 2012 10:25PM
9 hours agoMark Fletcher: yes, it is c39+ ... not sure why it doesn't show it.
......'cos it's in Suffolk.....everything runs at a slow pace up here....and I love it :)
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david's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Mark Fletcher: The page above now show the movement of ArqB to C39+.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012
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Richard Baguley12:21 PM
DAB
DAB has been working fine with fair to good s/s with an indoor ribbon aerial.
Turned off receiver during storms and removed FM (external) aerial.
Now, all DAB stations have gone and display says No Stations plus Tuning Aid says B for bad reception. Auto scan does nothing.
This is with an Onkyo receiver; a Roberts portable (which uses its own aerial yet has far better reception than the Onkyo) still receives DAB but with digital glitches on some stations - it was perfect.
Any ideas?
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