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 22/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering 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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Thursday, 10 November 2011
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Alex12:19 AM
Mike
you have saved me from a horrible death at the hands of my wife!!!
"over air download" who organises these and is there a common software protocol for all these machines to be able to read the data?
just being nosy really!
anyway thanks again
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Mike Dimmick2:22 PM
Alex: As I understand it, manufacturers can put their updates into a queue managed by the Digital TV Group's Testing group - Book an over-air download | DTG Testing .
I would expect the protocol to be DVB-SSU - DVB standards can be found at DVB - Digital Video Broadcasting - Standards & BlueBooks .
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S Marshall6:05 PM
As of today I have no ITV or channel 4. All Tv's have been re tuned. Please let me know when these channels are going to be re instated. They were all working at mid day
All 4 TV's are new because of the digitil change over
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S Marshall: I would have a look at Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Alex/Mike Dimmick: Chaper 23 of the "Blue book" says:
This Engineering Channel specification defines the method to be used to broadcast software updates to receivers using capacity made available to manufacturers in the UK DTT multiplexes. Terms and conditions for the use of the Engineering Channel may be obtained from DTG Testing Ltd,
Note that this specification defines a generic method for implementation of the Engineering Channel. The extent of the implementation will be set out in the Operations Manual
The key features of the scheme apply to both the current object-carousel based system and the data-carousel based DVB-SSU system ... the system uses standard MPEG data structures and should be able to pass through the UK network without problem
The ability to use the methods contained in the DVB-SSU specification for receiver firmware updates is added in this version of the D-Book specification, initially for receivers designed for the DVB-T2 services but it is intended that this will ultimately be used for all UK DTT receivers.
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Mick Force6:57 PM
The great switchover yesterday has left me with v poor reception on all BBC channels with "weak signal" being flagged up by my tv tuner card after many retunes. The ITV channels are better than before, less lockup/dig noise evident. Is this a temporary glitch? NR7 area
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Jane Hore7:21 PM
Lowestoft
Hello again after a long gap.
This day after stage one of the changeover my reception has been worse than it has been for months! And I was expecting at the least no change from the improved reception I was getting.
The outages are back, frequently and annoyingly.
NR33 9LH
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Jane's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Jane Hore: This is odd as only the BBC multiplex had been replaced, everything else is operating exactly as it was earlier in this week.
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Friday, 11 November 2011
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Stephen Lyon11:33 AM
To Mike Dimmick,
My Dual PVR has stopped receiving BBC channnels, despite doing a 'first installation' retune. Would the increase in bitrate on BBCA explain this, and if "Overall, the bitrates for each service are expected to be about the same as before switchover" will the BBC channels reappear after Nov. 23rd?
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