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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Wednesday, 31 August 2011
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Steve Priest7:13 PM
Leigh-on-sea
Cheers Paul,
I am getting film 4 but that is probably from BH i reckon. I am probably going to keep my aerial as it is until the Meridian changeover next year. Thanks for your help mate.
Regards
Steve
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Saturday, 10 September 2011
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Pete11:00 AM
I also live in Southend on Sea SS0 area and have found problems since the Anglia switch over. My Aerial points to Sudbury and prior to switch over I received channel 12 "Yesterday". Since switch over I no longer receive channel 12. I have also checked in the 800 range and it isn't listed there either.
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Heinz
4:17 PM
Colchester
4:17 PM
Colchester
Pete. you're receiver is probably being swamped by signal from the new Relay at Rouncefall (PSB and HD muxes only).
You probably won't get the COM muxes back from Sudbury until 27 June 2012 - when they'll be increased to 100kW TX power too.
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011
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Steve5:51 PM
Hi
I am in Basildon SS13 and was advised to use the Sudbury transmitter.
Well have just managed to get round to putting up the aerial but how do I know where to point to, every aerial round here seems to be pointing in different directions.
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Steve: Put your full postcode into the box at the top right.
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Sunday, 18 September 2011
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mark 6:00 PM
Newmarket
constantly having visual and audio problems according to the menu on the tv we are pointing towards cambs and beds is this correct for our postcode
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Monday, 19 September 2011
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Norm De Plume5:39 AM
Mark: first, plug your FULL postcode into the predictor on the top right of this webpage. After that, please provide your postcode when requesting advice about reception.
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Friday, 23 September 2011
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Emily Dumas9:54 PM
Colchester
My aerial is on the roof but I have problems with my television which has a separate digi box, it has a very weak signal. This is NOT the case in other televisions around the house that have built in digi boxes.
I am on the Sudbury transmitter. I did hear a rumour that the signal it gives out will be boosted at some stage, is this true? and if so when? or should I go out and buy a new digi box.
Thanks for your help
Emily
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Monday, 26 September 2011
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Norm De Plume8:06 AM
Stowmarket
Emily Dumas: Before you do anything, try the digibox in one of the other rooms attached to one of the other TVs and one of the other TVs on the cable for the digibox. If the problem stays with the room then it would be a wiring issue. If the problem stays with the digibox, then you might want to consider changing it, but please read on first.
Yes, the power of the weaker signals will be improved over the next year as other areas are upgraded (COM5 and COM6 in particular) but it may be that your digibox just cannot cope with the increased power from the other much stronger signals which now swamps the weaker ones.
Do the other TVs show a very healthy signal level, saying something like 100%? If that is the case, the solution is to weaken the signal to the digibox using a small device called an attenuator.
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