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
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Saturday, 19 August 2017
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Hardy10:45 AM
Tricia: re reception in edgefield . I live not far away in North Norfolk . com7 is the most unreliable group here too even though I do have a wideband log aerial . I notice its worse during high pressure weather conditions so I guess that it is interference from the Oxford transmitter that uses the same UHF channel 31.
The problem should go away (touch wood) next year when Tacolston stops using channel 31 . Meanwhile I use freesat because fromn august 1st freesat now transmits all the same channels as freeview including Dave!
Fresat does not suffer from continental interference . Ocassionally a problem here near the North Norfolk coast.
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Saturday, 26 August 2017
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Tricia1:49 PM
Many thanks to MikeP and Hardy for your comments. It sounds like using our Freesat connection and waiting until next year, is the best bet.
Kind regards,
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Thursday, 31 August 2017
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Christopher Webber3:33 AM
Reply to MikeB
Thank you for such a comprehensive and detailed post, you do make some very good points, and as you are obviously of a technical background you understand the DSO more than I, I will happily redact my comment the DSO was a con and rephrase it as we were conned during the DSO (two aerials, an STB and new TV) to get to today where we have Digital and HD.
One point I have to bring you up on, you mentioned 'how would encryption work for radio) - As you must surely be aware, no TV licence is required for Radio, so no encryption would even be required.
I think we have exhausted this exchange, and I thank you for all your replies and explanations.
Until June 2018, when no doubt we will need another aerial upgrade - joke!
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MikeB2:33 PM
Peterborough
Christopher Webber: I'm not that techincal, but I've sold TV's for some years, and I've seen all the arguments before on this site, over and over again.
As for your rephrasing of conned - who conned you? Whether you'd actually needed a new aerial is a moot point - a lot of people were fooled into getting a new 'digital' aerial, even though their existing one worked fine. In my case, the house I just moved into had an aerial which was about to fall apart anyway, as it turned out, which explained the need to buy a new aerial in any case.
Did you actually need a new STB? If it was a 2K model, then yes. But other than that - no. And while I was more than happy to sell people new TV's during DSO, there was not votal need to do so - as long as it could be fitted with a STB (and they all could), you were fine.
People complained about what they needed to replace, but in reality they generally didn't unless the thing wasn't working in the first place. The only exception was probably the VCR, which Digital UK explained was something people tended to forget about. So the analogue ones obviously did need changing, although even then you could fit one with a cheap STB, although it was a pain to use.
Digital UK sent everyone a decent booklet answering the major questions - if people then ignored it, thats not their fault.
'One point I have to bring you up on, you mentioned 'how would encryption work for radio) - As you must surely be aware, no TV licence is required for Radio, so no encryption would even be required. '
But BBC radio still has to be paid for - how do you do that? Adverts simply would result in the bankruptcy of the commercial stations, so thats not going to happen. Subscription? How? Internet, maybe, but broadcasting - no chance.
And even if people were willing to pay, how do you stop people who hadn't paid listening to it?
2018? Actually, some might need another aerial - and will no doubt endlessly complain about it.
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Saturday, 23 December 2017
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Bill11:08 PM
For the last couple of weeks, I've been unable to record Freeview BBC4 programmes in advance. Reception is perfect and all other channels record without any problems. But although the machine starts at the right time, it seems unable to lock onto the code/programme. I would also mention that my neighbours across the street are having exactly the same problem with BBC4. What's going on?
Any comments would be appreciated.
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Sunday, 24 December 2017
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Ian2:14 PM
Bill: I live in Gorleston, and have the same problem recording BBC4HD. It was fine about a month ago. I have tried a factory reset on my Panasonic recorder, and left it unplugged for a while, all to no avail.
Recorder starts on time, and says it is recording, but recording light just flashes.
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Monday, 25 December 2017
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Bill10:56 PM
Hi Ian,
It seems this is an issue that has nothing to do with recorder faults and I've now seen a few other posts about the problem online. As soon as the holiday is over, I'll contact Panasonic. I've not found them very helpful in the past, but I do not belive the machine needs any kind of reset or re-tuning. It has to be some kind of software update or a problem originating with the BBC or the transmission. If enough people contact them, something might get done about this.
Very annoying, as I was planning to record the next series of Spiral on BBC4HD in a few days time and there's no way I can watch the broadcast.
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Bill10:58 PM
Ian:
Hi Ian,
It seems this is an issue that has nothing to do with recorder faults and I've now seen a few other posts about the problem online. As soon as the holiday is over, I'll contact Panasonic. I've not found them very helpful in the past, but I do not belive the machine needs any kind of reset or re-tuning. It has to be some kind of software update or a problem originating with the BBC or the transmission. If enough people contact them, something might get done about this.
Very annoying, as I was planning to record the next series of Spiral on BBC4HD in a few days time and there's no way I can watch the broadcast.
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Tuesday, 26 December 2017
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MikeB8:52 AM
Bill: Check the channel that the machine is trying to lock onto. My old Sony PVR had a sensitive tuner as well - and it would accidently pull in 801 (Talcneston) rather than Waltham (1). Of course 801 was far too weak to allow it to actually properly record, but just strong enough to confuse it.
Might be an entirely different problem, but Panasonics also have very sensitive tuners, and thus you might have a similar problem. I mostly solved the problem by getting rid of those extra channels and killing the signal a bit.
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Ian7:42 PM
Bill:
Hi Bill,
All I got from Panasonic, was to do the factory reset. On contacting them for a second time (both online), I got no reply! As you say, very annoying!
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