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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Sunday, 20 November 2011
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Alistair10:36 PM
Cheers for your help on a Sunday night Dave. I think you're right.
Digital UK says 'COM mux FEC change' in 2 days. I'm hoping all their playing around is going to correct things to how it was working last week.
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Monday, 21 November 2011
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Kevin Hodges2:43 PM
Chelmsford
In simple terms what do these changes actually mean please?
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John3:33 PM
Last few days getting bad signal from sudbury to Felixstowe, early and late in day.
It is worst in fog before sun is up.
Is this the cause?, and is this what we will will get every time there's the same weather?
Anyone else getting same?
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Keith Cameron6:15 PM
Felixstowe
We also are in the Felixstowe area and have lost all channels on the ARQA MUX in the last few days, but those from ARQB are Ok. I found your website today and noted the very low power ourput for these two MUXs. Just carried out a the Freeview reset procedure as recommended on my BT Vision box but still no channels on ARQA.
Has anybody else experienced the same problem in this area? Any ideas on how to get these channels or do we just have to wait until next year, on the assumption that these MUX powers will be increased!
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Will9:44 PM
Alistair / John: The COM mux FEC change in simple terms is a change to how the data is transmitted which increases the capacity of the respective muxes (the extra capacity could be used for an additional channel). It will not solve the issues that you are having.
See this link for details:
This week's commercial multiplex changes | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
or if you want a bit more info, see the "Forward Error Correction" section on this page:
Freeview modes - a simplified explanation | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Will9:45 PM
Sorry. The above post should have been to Alistair and Kevin Hodges, not John.
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011
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Norm De Plume8:10 AM
Buckers - ignore my previous post about the 9200T, it was meant for Russ
Russ - check out this page about some boxes that have trouble receiving multiple modes: TVs and boxes that do not support the 8k-mode | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice (IP142JJ)
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Keith Cameron3:52 PM
Felixstowe
Re-scanned this afternoon and all missing channels on ARQA are back!
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Thursday, 24 November 2011
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Jon Fev11:12 PM
After the July changes I had brilliant reception from Sudbury on all Freeview Channels. Was also able to recive the HD ones. From Nov 16th, have less channels than at any other time. ITV4, Yesterday, Dave etc gone or intermittent. Carried out clear out and retune to no good effect on all my digital receivers, pretty much same result on all of them. Reps from Digital UK on local TV and Radio are being told about this problem and they are just telling people to retune. Very annoying!!
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Friday, 25 November 2011
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Rob; In Kelvedon12:36 AM
Another fine mess then this makes me glad that I have shelled out for a satellite box, trying to watch something on ITV 4 tonight (and Film 4 yesterday) neither working. Before 16/11/11 fabulous reception , still before July we couldn't even watch ITV1/CH4 most days. Hey ho, long live Humax
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