Full Freeview on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter which serves 440,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter._______
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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Sudbury (Suffolk, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Sudbury 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview HD channels?
The Sudbury (Suffolk, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sudbury transmitter?
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 77km north-northeast (24°)
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, 78km north-northeast (24°)
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?
| Felixstowe West | Transposer | 1000 homes +1000 or more homes due to expansion of affected area? | |
| Witham | Transposer | 14 km NE Chelmsford. | 118 homes |
How will the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 1 Aug 2018 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | K T | |||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C56tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C58tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | -ArqA |
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 6 Jul 11 and 20 Jul 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 | |
| Analogue 5 | (-7dB) 50kW | |
| Mux 2* | (-14.9dB) 8.1kW | |
| Mux B* | (-15.2dB) 7.5kW | |
| Mux 1* | (-15.5dB) 7kW | |
| Mux A* | (-17dB) 5kW | |
| Mux C* | (-22.2dB) 1.5kW | |
| Mux D* | (-23.6dB) 1.1kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sudbury transmitter area
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
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Nick10:18 AM
Woodbridge
I think there really must be something amiss with Sudbury's c60, for the following reasons.
I experimented with the aerial in different directions. Tac good on all channels as high as 59. [can't try 62 as don't have hd.] Dutch and French A1 on all channels as low as 21, even though aerial is not designed for group A. Sudbury good on 56 and 58, although tested connections before erecting it, in the garden at only 10ft, and only the muxes on 41 and 44 came in, but that in itself was an achievement.
When Sudbury had a low power mux on c63, I could occasionally receive it, and that was on an old group b aerial.
I would like to blame the Dutch for my problem on c60, but they do not come in on that channel with aerial set to Holland.
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Tessa Forsdike12:23 PM
Ipswich
Just checking whether this transmitter ws actually transmitting the closing ceremony of the Olympics in 3D - Sudbury transmitter - ? We have a new Panasonic TV and couldn't receive 3D - is it a problem with the TV or the signal??
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Heinz7:40 PM
There's no 3D on terrestrial Tessa, it's only on Sky (satellite).
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Norm De Plume10:31 PM
Hi Tessa,
The Olympics closing ceremony, and much of the Olympics, was broadcast on BBC HD (not BBC1 HD). I even have the recordings to prove it!
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Wednesday, 15 August 2012
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Jason6:08 AM
Whilst on the subject of the Olympics I noticed something the other afternoon, the living room and kitchen tv's were both on, the living room was on 301 and the kitchen on bbc1, by chance the programme that was being transmitted on 301 also started transmitting on bbc1 when that current sport had finished, I could hear the commentary from both as I walked from one room to the other and noticed that bbc1 was about 1 to 1.5 seconds behind 301.
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Tessa Forsdike6:07 PM
I hear your experience about where 3D is broadcast, Heinz, - but the BBC were telling us all that the closing ceremony (and the opening one too) was available in 3D on BBC HD - and Norm de Plume (like the sense of humour!) says he has the recordings - can you please confirm that was in 3D and was from the Sudbury transmitter?
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Thursday, 16 August 2012
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Kevin Hodges1:03 PM
Chelmsford
Tessa, there is no mention of 3D anywhere on the Freeview website. It was available on Virgin Cable TV
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Friday, 17 August 2012
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Heinz9:57 AM
British Eurosport transmitted much of the Olympics in 3D on the only 3D channel currently available in the UK - Sky channel 217.
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Heinz10:00 AM
Sorry, I meant to say, "..... one of only two (the other's on Virgin cable) 3D channels currently available in the UK - Sky chanel 217."
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
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Richard1:15 PM
Hockley
Tessa, the opening and closing ceremonies and each days highlights (broadcast after 11:00pm) were shown on BBC HD (including the Sudbury transmitter) in side by side mode and appeared on ordinary TV's 2 squashed images side by side. This was on BBC HD not BBC1 HD.
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