Full Freeview on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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52.518,1.139 or 52°31'6"N 1°8'22"E

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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

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Tacolneston transmitter broadcast?

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C40- (625.8MHz)	263m	DTG-	100,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C43- (649.8MHz)	263m	DTG-	100,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Anglia (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Anglia east), 71 That’s 60s,
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C46 (674.0MHz)	263m	DTG-	100,000W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H max	C42 (642.0MHz)	263m	DTG-8	100,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H max	C45 (666.0MHz)	246m	DTG-8	100,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H max	C39+ (618.2MHz)	246m	DTG-8	100,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others
LNR	H -10dB	C32 (562.0MHz)	263m	DTG-12	10,000W
	7 Mustard,

DTG-8 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	BBCtv_waves
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
C50_{tv_off}						BBCB	BBCB
C52_{tv_off}			C5_waves	C5_waves
C55_{tv_off}		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	-BBCA	-BBCA	-BBCA	com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}								COM8_{tv_off}
C57_{tv_off}							LNR	LNR
C59_{tv_off}		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	-D3+4	-D3+4	-D3+4
C62		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCB
C65		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves

_{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

Oct 1959-Feb 2004	Anglia Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Tacolneston was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Dave Lindsay

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11:11 AM

anne: is undergoing works and has been so for a while.

One possibility is that your is tuning to another , so it is worth checking that this is not the case.

Once you have it tuned correctly, then don't retune, even if you have poor , because the issue is not the tuning and all you can achieve by this is either the same outcome (i.e. tuned the same) or lost (a backwards step).

Confirm that all channels are tuned to Tacolneston by bringing up the signal strength screen on each of the following on observing the UHF/RF channel number it is tuned to:

BBC One
ITV1
BBC One HD (if applicable)
ITV3
Pick TV
Film4

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Martin French
7:59 PM
Downham Market

jb38 Having been without everything except the occasional Sky News we have just completed yet another which has recovered most of the missing . We will not rescan the TV again as and when we continue to lose some/all of channels in the future. Thanks very much for your and information. This has all been very stressful and frustrating and we look forward at some time (hopefully in the very near future) to getting back to normal.

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jb38

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12:19 AM

Martin French: Many thanks for your kind comments, and am pleased to know that the info has also been of assistance to yourself in respect of you now being aware of NOT to carry out a rescan in an attempt to recover lost , albeit that I fully appreciate that when someone is confronted with this type of situation that they might automatically feel that they should be doing something, but there isn't really anything that can be done except to check now and again to find out if the situation has resolved itself.

This is because the main aspect about television that is misleading to many is that unlike in the case of TV that is capable of producing a picture right down to a near zero level albeit it covered in speckles! "all" digital receivers work on a cliff system whereby the picture stays exactly the same until the signal drops down to a certain level (known as the cliff threshold) and then completely cuts out.

This is why that when anyone discovers that their favourite programme(s) show a blank screen, that if they carry out a signal check (via the menu) whilst "on that same blank screen" its nearly always found that a signal level of sorts will still be seen, albeit that the level seen is under the threshold cut off point hence no picture.

Another aspect about cut off points that is also misleading being that this level referred to can vary from brand to brand, and with Panasonic and Humax (boxes) being amongst the best of tuners for being able to cling onto a signal, this being why some people with more than one TV or box can find that in a weak signal situation some devices will work whereas others not, as it all depends on how sensitive the tuners are.

this might have given you a slight insight into how the system works.

Kind Regards / jb.

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Lexy
5:58 PM

Does anyone know when the is going to be sorted? ITV, etc are unwatchable and it's getting frustrating.

I'm in NR1, is anyone else having issues here?

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Rui
6:30 PM
Thetford

Hi, I live in a rented groudfloor apartment in . As this is a communal building, I cannot put up an individual . Would an internal one suffice?

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Mike
9:55 PM

What is going on with the the last couple of weeks?

Service is just unacceptable as can't watch certain programs/

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Dave Lindsay

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9:58 PM

DavidwFaulkner: is 88.1. is 90.1.

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davidwfaulkner

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2:01 PM
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Dave Lindsay
Tuesday 20 November 2012 9:58PM
16 hours agoDavidwFaulkner: is 88.1. is 90.1.

Thanks Dave, but I can't quite see the relevance to your answer.....fortunately 89.7 was back this morning.

Any idea why ??

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Dave Lindsay

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2:10 PM

davidwfaulkner: I should imagine that it was to do with the works at that have affected TV broadcasts.

I provided the frequencies for and because they appear as if they may be the next best ones as well as .

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davidwfaulkner

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3:09 PM
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ah, right :)...problem there is they are (respectively) very low Tx and too far away.

What happened is the outstanding question though......

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