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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Monday, 14 November 2011
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Mike Dimmick4:54 PM
lisa: As for *why* it's moving frequency: it's to give up C50 for Tacolneston to use from next week. The planned final home for this multiplex is C56, but this can't be used yet because Dover is still using it. There is another retune on 27 June 2012, the same day as stage 2 of Dover's switchover, when Sudbury's commercial multiplexes will all move to their final channels and power levels.
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Remember that the temporary move of ArqB from UHF 50 to UHF 63 on 16-11-11 will also involve a doubling of its (very low) power from 1.1kW to 2.2kW.
That may make it available to more viewers but the shift up the band may also take it past the reception capabilitries of some aerials.
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Wednesday, 16 November 2011
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Heinz6:56 AM
Damn! I wish I hadn't written that second paragraph.
Guess what's happened to my terrestrial reception.
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Dale
9:26 AM
Ipswich
9:26 AM
Ipswich
All seems to have gone pear-shaped with the move from Ch 50 to Ch 63. I have always had all channels here with quality at least 6 out of 10, even when all were on low power before switch-over, but today ARQB on Ch 63 is giving me Quality 1 out of 10. My Panasonic PVR just about copes, my LG TV tunes in but picture is totally broken up, and my cheapo Tesco TV won't tune in that Mux.
I had a wide-band aerial installed 3 years ago, so this should not be an out-of-band aerial problem. Removed signal amp back in July. Yesterday all ARQB (Ch 50) channels were fine with quality 9 out of 10.
Anyone got any ideas?
IP2 9XY.
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Dale: See:
Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Could it be your Panasonic PVR (or some other box) that has a modulator in (thus sending out a signal on an RF channel)?
If one device works, then I would be inclined to take the others to the same aerial outlet and connect them up and see if they will pick up the same channels. When doing so, I wouldn't have it looped through the PVR, just incase it is this that is causing the problem. (DN31NJ)
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Hollzjw11:48 AM
Sudbury
Hi,
Ive got a similar problem to Dale, I live very near to the Sudbury transmitter co10 9dz, this morning I could not get film 4, so I retuned my digi box, now I realise I can't get film 4, yesterday, itv 4 etc they don't even show up at all. Can you tell me why this is, as yesterday I got all these channels. I realise arqb is changing from channel 50 to 63 but is this the reason for losing the channels and is there a way of getting them back?
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Russ11:56 AM
I live in Wivenhoe Essex and my rather large aerial is pointed at Sudbury transmitter. Film4, ITV4, Russia Today etc. on multiplex ArqB failed in the early hours of 16/11/11. I powered off/on my Humax Freeview PVR to reboot it, and then re-scanned. Still no Film4 and ITV4 etc. Can anyone advise why I no longer receive ArqB? I have have not had signal problems before 16/11/11.
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Russ12:02 PM
I live in Wivenhoe Essex and my rather large aerial is pointed at Sudbury transmitter. Film4, ITV4, Russia Today etc. on multiplex ArqB failed in the early hours of 16/11/11. I powered off/on my Humax Freeview PVR to reboot it, and then re-scanned. Still no Film4 and ITV4 etc. Can anyone advise why I no longer receive ArqB? I have had no signal problems before 16/11/11.
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KMJ,Derby12:04 PM
Russ: Mux ArqB from Sudbury is now transmitted on C63. You will need to do a factory reset to erase the memory of the channels on the old frequency before rescanning, or alternatively delete the channels on Mux ArqB from your channel list then do a manual tune on C63.
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