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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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) mast?

Sudbury transmitter - Sudbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C44 (658.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C41 (634.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Anglia (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Anglia east),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C47 (682.0MHz)229mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H max
C29 (538.0MHz)186mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H max
C31- (553.8MHz)228mDTG-8100,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H max
C37 (602.0MHz)228mDTG-8100,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Sudbury (Suffolk, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sudbury transmitter?

regional news image
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
regional news image
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 WestTransposer1000 homes +1000 or more homes due to expansion of affected area?
WithamTransposer14 km NE Chelmsford.118 homes

How will the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-131 Aug 2018
B E TB E TB E TE TK T
C29SDN
C31ArqA
C35C5wavesC5waves
C37ArqB
C41ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C44BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C47C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCB
C51tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C56tv_offArqB
C58tv_offSDN
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

Oct 1959-Feb 2004Anglia Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Sudbury was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Monday, 26 March 2012
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KMJ,Derby
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2:51 PM

Joe: Reception of Mux ArqA on C54 is possibly being blocked by a stronger signal from Waltham on Mux D3+4 at 50kW traveling further than normal. When the weather conditions change you should get the ArqA channels back.

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Dave Lindsay
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3:35 PM

Joe: Try putting a variable attentuator inline with your aerial and adjusting if, seeing if it's possible to improve reception of ArqA (E4+1, Dave etc) and even get ArqB back (Yesterday, 4Music, VIVA etc).

For a few pounds it is probably worth a shot:

VARIABLE ATTENUATOR TV SIGNAL REDUCER 20dB 3 5 6 9 10 12 15 18 DIGITAL FREEVIEW | eBay

It may be that the high power signals are acting to desensitise your receiver (reduce its sensitivity) which then makes it unable to pick up the weaker signals.

Attenuating the incoming signals might reduce the strong ones enough to allow reception of the weaker ones. It is obviously a balance that is needing to be struck of which there is no guarantee that it is possible because the attenuator reduces everything, including the weaker signals.

If you try this, then whilst adjusting the attenuator, monitor the strength/quality of ArqA to get it to its best. You will need to give it 10 seconds or so to catch up with the change you have made. Then manually tune to channel 63 which is ArqB. You may find that further adjustment will improve reception of ArqB.

The situation with low power of COM services will remain until 27th June.

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11:07 PM

Some of these muxes say 'plus 11 others, plus 21 others' etc. How do we find out what these 'others' are? When a channel comes and goes, I don't know if it is my box, aerial, or the xmitter.

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11:12 PM

Who decides to put rubbish shopping channels on relatively high power and Pick, Challenge etc on low so we can't see them? Can the viewer not have some say?

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11:18 PM

Does anyone know why so often I am unable to ask a question here? So often I write a question, click 'post your comment' and it says 'there was a fault with your message' and does not send?

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Nick
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11:21 PM

Can I tune Freesat or Sky to get Irish tv?

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11:27 PM

In my IP12 location, when I retune the freeview box it finds channels in the 21-28 channel group. My aerial is on Sudbury and I assume it is finding channels from the Aldeburgh group. I know from analogue days that Aldeburgh provided a rotten signal and Sudbury good. How can I stop it hooking on Aldeburgh? And can it, for example, hook up to both so that I find BBC 1, for example, on two different channels?

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Dave Lindsay
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11:37 PM

Nick: The "others" are links and if you click on them it tells you what they are.

Unplug your aerial whilst it is scanning Aldeburgh channels. Scanning is from 21 to 69. If it gives only a percentage, you can work out what percentage to plug in at. 25% should do the trick.


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11:39 PM

Are we going to be able to get digital radio in the IP 12 area? No signal here without an external aerial, whereas in IP15 it is strong. I believe the signal comes from Aldeburgh, 10 miles away or less in a straight line. Seems a rotten transmitter for DAB, whereas FM Radio Suffolk comes through well from Aldeburgh in IP12. Can't they turn the wick up?

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Dave Lindsay
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11:53 PM

Nick: Looking at the list of BBC National multiplex transmitters, your nearest would appear to be Aldeburgh (1.8kW), Manningtree (5kW), Mendlesham (4.3kW).

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