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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Thursday, 29 September 2011
drrdf: It does rather seem that you are looking at the digital television system as it was an analogue system.
The work done by Arqiva is of the highest standard (well, apart from at Oxford).
I suspect you need to do some reading up about digital television transmission standards.
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Friday, 30 September 2011
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Alan9:15 PM
Near to Sudbury. Sport Tonight shows as running on the programme guide, but nothing seems to be transmitted. What is the problem despite linked to network ok.
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Eddie Stacey10:24 PM
Ipswich
com 5, arq A has disappeared altogether.Signal strength is there but no signal quality.
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Emily Dumas10:35 PM
Colchester
Thanks Norm, will try that.
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011
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P Smith2:33 PM
Why are simple questions unanswered?
When will Sudbury transmit channel 12 etc. at a reasonable power level? IP33 Bury St.Edmunds, the current signal is just above blocking & will probably fail in bad weather. Is there an interference issue with Tacolneston analogue transmissions? Will things improve in November? The main channels are fine.
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Mike Dimmick4:42 PM
P Smith: Sudbury's next stage is to move ArqB - which carries Yesterday - to C63 on 16 November, to get out of the way of Tacolneston's high-power digital transmissions on C50.
The final channels and power levels will be reached on 27 June 2012, after Dover has stopped using them - the Meridian East region completes switchover on this date.
Digital UK's predictor suggests that your reception of ArqB should be improved when it moves to C63 in mid-November.
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Thursday, 13 October 2011
Alan: Sport Tonight is internet delivered, you must have a Freeview HD box that is connected to the internet to view the channel. See Sports Tonight Live for more.
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Friday, 14 October 2011
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P Smith10:14 AM
Mike Dimmick - Many thanks for your clear advice, roll on November! PS
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David Rose 7:01 PM
Clacton-on-sea
On Nov 16th what extra channels should be available.
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Phil McCavity9:26 PM
I DO have a Freeview HD box that is network connected. The usual problem though in this annoying digital world, not all HD compliant Freeview boxex seem to be compatible. It seems my Icecrypt T220 is one of these. I am used to router compatibility problems with various network devices, especially my Wi-Fi Internet radios, but changes have not altered things thus far, though I should have a Billion BiPAK 7800N dual Wan router arriving tomorrow, so will give that a whirl.
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