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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Saturday, 20 October 2012
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jb3812:08 AM
pete: Basically yes! as although Sudbury (100Kw) @ 22 miles is the more local station, Crystal Palace (200 kw) @ 35 miles away is possibly being received on the rear of the aerial even although its offset by roughly 30 degrees, and so it could well be indicating as being the best signal during an auto-tune.
"Initial set up", "first time installation", or "factory reset" or "default setting" are the terms generally used on equipment.
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jb3812:17 AM
Wirral
pete: Did also meant to add, that if the problem is still evident after having carried out the procedure mentioned then the manual tuning in of each of the six muxes will cure the problem. Sudbury's muxes being / Ch44(BBC1) - Ch41(ITV1) - Ch47(HD) - Ch58(SDN / ITV3 etc) - Ch60(11: Pick TV) - Ch56 (15: Film 4).
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Thanks for that JB, just thought that as i get Anglia on Sky, could seing the aerial around and pick up a differnet ITV stn, bit like the old days :-)
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Sunday, 21 October 2012
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Jason8:15 PM
Just a quick question regarding the channel moves, have noticed that the news channels and children's channels are still operating on there original numbers, even after October 17th deadline, will they continue to do so, had a message come up on screen to say some channel numbers have changed.
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Monday, 29 October 2012
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Jod10:14 AM
Braintree
Hi
Just to let you know i sorted my Sudbury Ch 60 picture issues...
After reading this and other blogs i realised that my skybox was the problem..When i isolated it Freeview Ch60 worked fine...I then realised the ATV signal to my freeview TV came in on Ch 61...Too close for comfort that one so using the installer page i changed the RF output channel to 69...This instantly made the CH60 DTV signal perfect and the only other thing i needed to do was retune my TV to ATV Ch 69..
HTH
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Sunday, 4 November 2012
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joe6:03 PM
I can't get RT in suffolk, this site says i should have it but when I do the postcode checker on the freeview site it doesn't come up. I can't get sky news either (not that I want that right wing Murdoch bllx).
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jb386:51 PM
joe: Your reception possibilities cannot be checked on without a post code (or one from nearby) being given, but if using the Sudbury transmitter then RT(85) is on mux Ch56, Sky news(82) being on mux Ch60, and so you should manually tune in each of these two muxes.
By the way ITV4(24)is on the same mux as RT, and if by any chance you are receiving it but not RT then carry out a complete reset on whatever you are using to scrub everything already stored, then follow this by carrying out a normal auto-tune.
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Thursday, 8 November 2012
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Nick7:14 PM
Aldeburgh
I see Sudbury has the fourth engineering works since they supposedly upgraded the service in July. Please does anyone know if so much engineering work is usual, ie, does it denote a problem?
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Friday, 9 November 2012
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Tony8:22 PM
Saffron Walden
Definitely a problem. All my agro (see 16 Oct post) went away after the last retune but returned at the start of the week. Bloody digital - bring back analogue. I would only miss BBC3/4 and Film 4 they can keep the rest.
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