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 |
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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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Friday, 4 October 2013
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Paterson8:07 PM
Mosaic interference on itv channels 3 4 and 5 not possible to view. Please advise if there are known problems in the Newmarket area
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Friday, 11 October 2013
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S Hall2:29 PM
Almost all our freeview channels are breaking up. Could it be due to the weather. I usually have problems with ITV but BBC channels is usually fine but yesterday and today most channels both TV and Radio are breaking up. We were told going digital would be better so far it is not.
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jamie stevens6:22 PM
Petersfield
S Hall:
have you ever thought that the issue may be with your system rather than the transmission being sent?
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John Read8:39 PM
In the middle of September I started having trouble with my Sony Hard disc video recorder. It kept finding new channels, which were always BBC 1 or 2 and the previous tuning of that channel became pixilated. Our 2yr old Samsung TV appeared not affected. This constant channel retuning obviously prevented any recording of BBC. I assumed that the 6yr old Sony was faulty, and as we were going on holiday, bought a new Panasonic replacement. This appeared to solve the problem, but has now begun again. I've just done a complete retune, first with the AE lead out then in, and watching the channels being found, can see all are signal strength 10 except for all the BBC ones (on Ch55) which are 3. I always understood that the final switchover to Digital was going to improve reception not prevent watching the very channels I pay my licence fee for.
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John Read8:45 PM
Sorry should have added my postcode, It's NR338DB, this was apparently a no go area for CH5 in alalog days and required a more powerfull aerial fitted for the start of freeview, which we received well until last month.
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MikeB9:20 PM
John Read: My Sony recorder is a little younger than yours, but it too picks up BBC1 and records it as a blank screen or badly broken up picture (in fact it happened last week). The reason is because the tuner is pretty sensitive, and picks up 'other' BBC1's, etc. These are normally stored in the 800 numbers, but the machine can suddenly be fooled into thinking that thats BBC1, which of course then breaks up!
Your central problem (and signal stregth 10 is the clincher) is too much signal - your powerful aerial, etc is now working against you. Talconeston seems to have had engineering works, and its seems to be a pattern that such work then results in a more powerful signal. Thats OK but for some, the signal is over the top - 75% is perfect, although you can go highre, but my Sony starts to go at 93%, and Panasonic tuners are known to be sensitive.
The BBC channels might actually be more than 10, but the signal is too much, and go show a low reading instead.
Cut out any boosters etc, and look at this :https://ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051892
S Hall - I suspect you might have the same problem.
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Andy B9:32 PM
John Read: I've been having exactly the same problems in NR34 since mid-september. It's been particualrly bad the last couple of days since it has been very windy. My signal strength is similar on all UHF channels at around 50% but only on channel 55 does the signal quality constantly jump around between 10 and 90%. All other UHF channels have a constant 100& signal quality. Since I'm not that far from you maybe the problems are related, I have a Humax HDR.
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Saturday, 12 October 2013
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John Read7:34 PM
Mike B, many thanks for your post, I've just removed the aeriel amp from the setup, and there's no difference, in vision. I've just checked the setup bar graphs and realised that was the bar graph called signal quality, not strength that's showing only 3/10, for those programs on Ch55 ie BBC. (all others are 10/10.) The bar called signal strength doesn't show anything at all, except for an occasional flash of full bar red, when changing channels. This appears the same with the ae amp in or out. Anyway I'll try it for a few days and see whether I get the "new" channel problems again.
Many thanks again John
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Sunday, 13 October 2013
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gweneh3:01 PM
I am having the same problems with Channel 55 and I live in Suffolf (IP17). Seems the common factor here is the Tacolneston transmitter. Something changed in the last few days.
I wish some-one would fix it as BBC is currently unwatchable and as you said those are the channels we're paying our licence fee for!
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Michael3:08 PM
gweneh: If you read the reply to your previous posts, you'd see jb38 has pointed out that many aerials are pointing to the local Aldeburgh relay transmitter so reception of channel 55 may not be great - as confirmed by the Digital UK tradeview predicted ch55 to be variable at your location.
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