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, 20 July 2011
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Alan Matthews10:53 PM
Chelmsford
After 20th July I have lost many channels but thought that the power increase would enable me to receive the feeble ones like ITV4. This used to be broken up but now it has totally gone. The chart indicates that many of the channels I once had are if anything at less power.
Is it planned to raise the power of these channels later or do I have to go for freesat please.
I have a fairly new wide band antenna and live in Little Baddow CM3.
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Will11:34 PM
Alan Matthews: The power was only increased to the PSB muxes (which carry the main BBC channels and ITV1 etc.). There has been an effective power drop on the COM muxes which have changed transmission mode.
To cut a long story short; muxes ArqA, ArqB and SDN do not increase to full power until 27th June 2012. This includes ITV4 which is on ArqB along with many of the commercial channels. Unfortunately, if you cannot receive them today, you may not be able to receive these channels until next year.
Could you provide a full postcode so your predicted coverage can be checked?
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Dave W11:50 PM
Braintree
Just to confirm/clarify, stations like Yesterday & Film4 are being transmitted on C56 (754.0MHz)? I'm getting no signal on C56 at all.
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Thursday, 21 July 2011
SUDBURY transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:41 yesterday to 02:07 yesterday [BBC]
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SUDBURY transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:41 yesterday to 02:07 yesterday [BBC]
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jb387:58 AM
Dave W: Information suggests that ArqB is remaining on Ch50 until later on this year, this being the Mux that transmits the programmes you have mentioned.
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Dale
12:05 PM
Ipswich
12:05 PM
Ipswich
I see that Mux C /ARQA (CH54) is still showing as 16QAM / 2K mode on this site : it actually switched to 64QAM / 8K mode yesterday (thus seeming to lose power, as did ARQB on CH50).
4 of the 5 SD MUXes are now on this : SDN (CH49) being the exception on 64QAM / 2K mode.
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Dale: I have corrected the code to show that now. This is a very non-standard switchover.
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jb381:16 PM
Briantist: No problem! as at least you did have the correct information shown in the "Note" section underneath the transmission frequencies, it was Digital UK's trade predictor I thought a bit off, as it was showing the reception possibilities for a channel number that wasn't actually operational which was totally misleading, although I see that's been updated now as well.
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