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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Wednesday, 18 June 2014
M
Mike Edwards6:59 AM
Norwich
Hi there,
I'm based in Taverham, Norfolk and have been experiencing issues with total loss of TV signal last week (Friday, Saturday 13th/14th June). The signal returned to normal on Sunday (15th) and has been fine since the weekend until last night (17th) and this morning (18th) it has totally gone again.
I have a roof aerial and although the signal we get here is on the weak side, we've never had trouble like this before. We've certainly not lost the main channels (BBC, ITV, C4) before.
I can't see that the issue is local as nothing in my setup has changed, roof aerial looks fine and all connections are in place.
At the weekend there were reports of weak signal on the Tacolneston transmitter, so I assumed that was related. However there are no such reports this week and I'm struggling to understand why I've got total loss of signal again. Can someone put my mind at rest and confirm that they are experiencing similar issues? Most of my neighbours have satellite dishes so it's difficult to find people using terrestrial these days!
Many thanks,
Mike
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Thursday, 19 June 2014
M
Mike Edwards5:51 AM
Norwich
Our TV reception came back strong last night at about 9pm. Still working this morning. No mentions of problems elsewhere online. It's just weird!
Oh well, hopefully it'll stay ok for the football tonight!
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Sunday, 6 July 2014
D
david5:34 PM
Anyone else having problems on Taccy ........ all the channels on COM 4 & COM 5 are erroring & pixellating and the TV signal meter shows a slightly lower signal strength (7/10 to 8/10 rather than our normal 8/10 to 9/10 on these).
All the other channels are OK with zero reported errors and a sig strength of 9/10 to 10/10 which is normal.....all the HD channels are perfectly OK
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Monday, 7 July 2014
Sunday, 13 July 2014
R
RichardB11:15 PM
Here's a very strange one!
Tonight, BBC One HD has no sound on the digital output, internal speaker is OK.
All other channels are OK.
The same feed (World Cup) on ITV HD is fine (not that we watched the boring WC!).
On switching to BBC One HD there's an audible click from the hi-fi amp which I suspect is being generated by the DAC we are using as it's getting a non standard signal.
TV & DAC are new.
Anyone else having a similar problem?
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014
R
RichardB10:12 PM
See my post above.
Tonight, BBC Four HD and Channel 4 HD have no digital audio; all else is as above.
What on earth is going on?
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RichardB10:14 PM
Re above, just to clarify - BBC 1 HD audio is fine tonight!
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014
D
DenisW12:56 PM
Great Yarmouth
what is best aerial to use in NR30 5SF
at the moment we are often getting pixellation and a message no signal or sig strength about 60%
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KMJ,Derby1:14 PM
DenisW: Does this affect every mux or just certain ones? Can you receive Mustard TV from Norwich? If the problem is only with PSB1 (BBC channels) or PSB2 (Anglia, C4 etc) check that the receiver is actually tuned to Tacolneston frequencies C55 and C59, rather than frequencies for the local relay which might have been saved by mistake.
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Dave Lindsay
1:22 PM
1:22 PM
DenisW: In addition to that said by KMJ,Derby and having checked (as per his instructions) you are tuned to Tacolneston, does the poor reception happen at particular times such as when traffic is busiest?
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