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 29/04/2024 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
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Sunday, 3 August 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
TACOLNESTON transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:28 on 31 Jul to 03:23 on 31 Jul, HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 01:32 on 30 Jul to 00:28 on 31 Jul. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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7:40 AM
TACOLNESTON transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 01:32 on 30 Jul to 00:28 on 31 Jul, HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:28 on 31 Jul to 03:23 on 31 Jul. [BBC]
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Alan 6:30 PM
Woodbridge
The BBC multiplex appears to be off air, although reception of ITV is fine. This has been ongoing since yesterday am (Sat 2 August). Specifically at IP12 1LG, but problems from others in Woodbridge also.
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Monday, 4 August 2014
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Frances12:21 PM
Woodbridge
No BBC reception in Melton, Woodbridge since Saturday morning, 2 Auguat
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Frances: The transmitter was restored to normal at 03:23 on 31 July. Did you retune?
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Helen Stanley7:21 PM
Shrewsbury
Briantist: I'm getting really sick of losing all Freeview channels on a very frequent basis and BBC group of channels even more often.
Our aerial has been checked and is ok.
The signal can go for at least two hours and sometimes two or three days. We have replaced our equipment. We have had no signal on four separate pieces of equipment since 16.10 tonight and it is now come back on, whilst we were doing nothing to encourage it.
We repeatedly follow your re-tune advice, but it makes no difference whatsoever, other than to really irritate us.
We have to use Winter Hill, despite it's enormous distance and region from us. We have a big hill behind us and sit on magnetic Dolorite rock. Post code SY5 9AY, village Criggion. Is this neglected bit of border Wales of no importance to Freeview?
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Helen Stanley7:23 PM
Shrewsbury
PS We don't live in Shrewsbury
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Alan7:25 PM
I have not retuned - the maintainance note did not indicate that there was a change. This is my elderly mother in law, and I didn't want to retune in case it was a temporary problem. If you tell me that a retune will definitely fix it, I will go ahead.
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Alan7:32 PM
Hi - I have not retuned as the maintenance note implied it was a power reduction and did not indicate that a retune is necessary. This is my elderly mother in law's tv, and I don't want to retune without being certain it will fix the problem. Did the channel allocations change during maintenance ? If so, it would be worth being explicit about this in the maintainance notes.
Can you confirm that a re-tune will fix the problems ?
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MikeB7:43 PM
Helen Stanley: Frankly, I'm surprised nobody has simply suggested Freesat to you - you live in a location where Freeview is difficult. and since you've said you replaced equipment, it would have been far more cost effective to go for Freesat in the first place.
However, you say you keep getting 'no signal', yet you've had your aerial checked. Have you followed the signal path from the back of the TV up to the aerial? 'No Signal' means that the TV is either getting no signal at all, or so little that the TV cannot read it. Some tuners are more sensitive than others, but if your getting nothing suddenly, its possible you have a loose connection, etc. Work your way back to the aerial if you can, becuase its likely that even a loose connection is making your situation worse - perhaps a splitter that feeds several TV's.
Check your TV's to see if any of them have Freesat/generic sat. tuner's built in. Although they became a bit less popular some years ago, in the last year or two LG and Sony have started putting them into their TV's, but generally not mentioning it. If you have make/model numbers, we can find out.
A twin LNB dish (watch/record) is around £99 to have put up (although a quad might be better for you) - you may even have a dish already. That would make more sense than trying to deal with a transmitter so far away.
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