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, 26 July 2012
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D.A. Howell11:50 AM
Once again we are having reception problems for BBC 1,2,3 & 4 poor signal, no signal & picture break up yes can run the reset procedure but it would appear we need to do it every time we wish to record. It is just a waste of time and money we never receive an answer when it will improve or a refund on the licence fee.
thank you in anticipation of a good service
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Nick2:01 PM
Woodbridge
DAH, probably the hot weather bringing in the Dutchmen, they are little devils with our reception.
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Graham10:55 PM
Bury St. Edmunds
I have a DVD recorder and TV in my lounge+ TV in the kitchen. All three run off the same aerial. I never have a problem with the freeview signal on either TV but the DVD recorder is far more suceptible to freezing/losing signal. Tonight it was set up to record channel 4 from 8pm-9pm. It only recorded the first 3 minutes of the programme and then went blank with no signal. It has also lost other channels in the group and as I type this message at 10.50pm they're still not working. Yet all channels are coming in to both TV's - why? is the DVD so rubbish? It is a Panasonic and supposed to be reliable according to Which magazine? perhpas its faulty?? bring back analogue I never had any problem pre digital - sorry rant over. All I ask for is a reliable service. Signal comes via Talcolneston and I live in North Suffolk.
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Friday, 27 July 2012
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Nick9:10 AM
Woodbridge
Graham, silly question perhaps, but why not on Sudbury?
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Saturday, 28 July 2012
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Richard Baguley1:39 PM
North Walsham
Still no comment on poorer Tacolneston DAB s/s lately.
Any ideas?
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jb383:38 PM
Graham: Although its not known what method you are using to supply your various devices with a signal, but for reliability of reception then a powered splitter should always be used with the number of outlets on it chosen to match the devices used, as this is the only way of guaranteeing that each device is supplied with the same level of signal.
It could simply be the case that either your DVD is less sensitive than the rest of the devices or that the signal to it is via daisy chaining from some other device into its RF input, or even that during a retuning exercise its picked up its ITV mux from another source, so if you are using Tacolneston carry out a signal check on ITV to make sure mux Ch59 is seen and not anything else.
By the way Sudbury is indicated as being best for reception on the code provided and with Sandy and Tacolneston being about the same as each other with the exception of the latter's commercials, as they are permanently shown with the status of being "variable" which in plain terms can mean unreliable at times.
It would also be of interest to know what model number of Panasonic is being referred to.
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Sunday, 29 July 2012
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Richard12:54 PM
Is there a reason why I cannot get the extra Olympic channels? The 150 channel comes up with the alphabetical list and the blue bars if they are currently transmitting but when I click on them they say no signal. This is Tacleston and we are in the Southwold area but the time does not seem to affect it. Thanks.
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J8:29 PM
Try a retune - but are you sure you are not on Aldeburgh and not Tacolneston being in Southwold....
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KMJ,Derby8:45 PM
Richard: Is this Freeview or are you receiving satellite channels? If you have "no signal" on the HD version on satellite, try the SD channels which should be working fine.
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Steve11:30 PM
Following the instructions on Friday 27th July to retune to enable more channels for the 2012 games I found i now have the following extre channels, 889 Koln.890 NDL FS MVP,SH,NDS,HH,HR FERNSEHEM,MDR FERNSEHEM,NES/KiKA,3 Sat and ZDF.Overall the picture quality and sound was excelent with no pixelisation.As i don't mind watching the extra channels is this the norm.I live within a 5 mile radius of ELY Cambridgeshire at or below sea level in a dip.
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