Full Freeview on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter which serves 330,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) mast?
Tacolneston transmitter - Tacolneston transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 29/05/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Tacolneston 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Tacolneston transmitter?
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 16km northeast (37°)
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, 16km northeast (38°)
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?
| Gt Yarmouth | Transposer | 1 km S town centre | 30 homes |
| Lowestoft (2) | Transposer | Rotterdam Rd | 125 homes |
How will the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 17 Jul 2018 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | E | E T | W T | W T | ||
| C3 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C32 | _local | ||||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C39 | +ArqB | +ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C40 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C43 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C45 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
| C46 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C52tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | -BBCA | -BBCA | -BBCA | com7tv_off | ||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | LNR | LNR | |||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C62 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 9 Nov 11 and 23 Nov 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 | |
| com7 | (-9.6dB) 27.4kW | |
| com8 | (-10.2dB) 24kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, LNR | (-14dB) 10kW | |
| Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 5kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-18dB) 4kW |
Local transmitter maps
Tacolneston Freeview Tacolneston DAB Tacolneston TV region BBC East Anglia (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Tacolneston transmitter area
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Sunday, 11 December 2011
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Chris Wildey9:54 AM
For years we have been told that all we need to do is buy a Freeview box anc connect to out existing aerial.. I bought a Freeview + box..Since Tuesday 6th December it hasnt worked because Norwich council cut the communal aerial.. telling me that that it didnt work because it wasnt a digital aerial and woudlnt receive a digital signal!!!! and that I will have to get cable or buy and aerial for the house...
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KMJ,Derby1:28 PM
Chris Wildey: This sounds like the council is no longer prepared to pay for the communal aerial to be maintained, the contract to provide and maintain the aerial has possibly expired. Whilst there is no such thing as a digital aerial there are certain adjustments that may be required to accommodate changes in frequencies and transmitter power following DSO. Some councils made a decision to replace existing communal aerials with an all singing and dancing version which also provides DAB radio and satellite services for Sky and sometimes foreign channels, this came however at a price which many tenants complained about, especially if they had no TV, only watched terrestrial channels or were cable subscribers! That is why other councils decided to let tenants choose (and pay for) their own method of viewing TV.
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Chris Wildey2:09 PM
Yes the council did ask people in flats what they wanted but they never asked those in houses. Never told us it would be cut off.
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Monday, 12 December 2011
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Trevor11:48 AM
Great Yarmouth
Dave, thanks for the advice. On my Samsung tv I went Menu, Antenna, Manual Tuning, Digital Channel Tuning then hit the red button to add a new Channel. I selected Channel 62 and then Search and it added the 4 HD channels. Success!
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Friday, 16 December 2011
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Richard Baguley10:18 PM
Wallasey
Have lost nearly all channels.
ITV (Ch46) is at 30% strength (which is <50% of immediate post DSO) but Ch55 is 0 - 2%, Ch45 0%.
What on earth is going on? This is worse than pre DSO and is totally unacceptable.
Is there a transmitter fault?
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Richard Baguley11:01 PM
Update
Signal strength now increased on Ch55 to 35% (c.50% of normal) but every few minutes drops to zero for a couple of seconds before returning to the same level as before.
I suspect a transmitter fault because all channels are now running at 50% of previous power and I don't believe it's atmospherics. Brian?
(My son in Langley - I'm in Dilham - reports 100% ss but that was some time after we lost everything.).
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Richard Baguley11:02 PM
For some reason my post at 10.18 has me at Chester!
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Saturday, 17 December 2011
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Chris Wildey8:40 AM
""For some reason my post at 10.18 has me at Chester""
Blame the Switchover.
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Richard Baguley2:27 PM
Update 2
Ch55 now showing 72% ss so it must have been a transmitter fault.
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Wednesday, 28 December 2011
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Peter10:58 AM
Using my Humax HDR Fox T2 PVR I get a set of broken white lines across the top left hand side of the screen on ITV1 & ITV 1HD only. they don't appear using any other tuner.
Anyone know the cause?
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