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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Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
SUDBURY transmitter - Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Saturday, 28 November 2015
Dale Rumbold
11:20 AM
Ipswich
11:20 AM
Ipswich
Hi ; Yesterday and today have had problems on the BBC Channels, both SD and HD, on Freeview from Sudbury. Every few seconds the bottom quarter of the picture 'flickers' . First noticed this on BBC1 SD last night (27th Nov) during Look East, but have just checked and same problem still occurring on BBC1 and BBC2 both SD and HD today (28th Nov). Commercial channels (ITV etc) are all functioning normally. I'm at IP2 9XY.
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Sunday, 29 November 2015
M
MikeP2:56 PM
Trowbridge
Dale Rumbold:
That's a very unusual problem! Have you chec ked with a neighbour to see if they are getting the same effect on their Freeview service? If they are not, then it is likely to be a fault in your equipment.
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Monday, 30 November 2015
Dale Rumbold
10:53 AM
10:53 AM
All working normally again by Saturday evening. Might be the telly, but strange it only happened on the BBC Channels across 2 MUXes and protocols.
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Thursday, 3 December 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
SUDBURY transmitter - Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Saturday, 5 December 2015
M
MarkO5:21 PM
Hi, My TV signal was fine until 3 days ago (Hythe, Colchester). I;ve checked all internal connections and a friend over the road has a perfect signal. Could mine be to do with the "possible weak signal" from the Sudbury transmitter? It's very annoying now as I have NO signal whatsoever and NO channels. I went to work one morning and it was fine, come home and nothing since Thursday :( help!
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MikeB6:33 PM
MarkO: If the bloke over the road has a perfect signal, and your not, and your both using the same transmitter, logically, it has to be your system. 'No Signal' is normally a broken cable, etc, and since we've had/having high winds at the moment, it sounds like thats the problem. You said you checked all the internal cables, etc - great, but what about the ones you cannot check?
Might need someone with a ladder, etc, but check the signal path, etc again, to make sure its something you cannpt repair yourself.
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MarkO6:47 PM
Thanks, I'm in a block of flats so not easy. Luckily the neighbour is having the same problem so might be the block
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M
MikeB8:08 PM
MarkO: Could well be the block. Always worth checking what signal strength other people are getting and what transmitter they actually tuned into. It could well be that there is a central fault, but the signal is weakened, and not out entirely (hence the reason why the someone else is fine, or at least they haven't noticed a problem). However, if you and some others also have a possibly weak link as well, then the two faults sort of combine.
Hope it gets sorted.
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Wednesday, 2 March 2016
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nick11:09 PM
so, I get a large aerial to pick up the main transmitter for Suffolk, Sudbury, as opposed to freeview light from my local relay, then lose Al Jazeera from channel 133 and find I cannot get it on 108. Brilliant, another clever move, freeview!
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