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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, 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
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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Sunday, 30 June 2019
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Reginald Mills2:57 PM
For the last two days I have not been able to get 'Keep it country tv'. This applies to more than one piece of reception equiptment. I have tried retuning with no results. Can you tell me what has happened to this program. Regards Reg Mills
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StevensOnln15:44 PM
Reginald Mills: Keep It Country has closed on Freeview and can therefore no longer be received via an aerial. Spotlight TV (which is taking over from Keep It Country on satellite and cable) is due to become available as a streamed channel which uses your internet connection on a compatible connected TV from next week.
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Tuesday, 16 July 2019
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david faulkner10:20 AM
Hi, strange problem in that my Panasonic OLED TV cannot display BBC News HD 107.....I have done the usual clearout of channels and re-scans etc but it just wont appear.
ALL other freeview & HD channels are fine, signal strength between 95 & 100%, and quality is 100% on all channels.
We are about 20miles from Tacolneston.
The weird thing is that both my freeview recorders (PAnasonic and BT Youview) CAN receive 107...nothing has changed in our setup, no hardware changes no re-cabling etc.
At a loss to explain that
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MikeB3:55 PM
david faulkner: That is really strange - Panasonics have really sensitive tuners (if anything too good, hence the 95-100% strength).
A couple of things do occur.
Your only 20 miles from Talcneston, but that area is a pain for reception, hence the lite transmitters. I dont know if the lites carry 107 on HD (I am in north cambridgeshire, and my parents in law on the coast get their main signal from Belmont), but if they dont and you have accidently locked onto one, that might explain it. But if you are getting the full range, then its not that.
Might be worth doing a system upgrade - just to make sure the software is up to date. It cant do any harm.
Other than that, I am at a loss. Its a lovely TV, and should be fine. If you have a sat dish attached to it, then that should pick it up anyway and your other equipment already does, but all the same, its a bit odd!
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Wednesday, 17 July 2019
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Chris.SE7:16 AM
david faulkner:
Two thoughts come to mind, there is Engineering work at Tacolneston this week with "Possible weak signal" & as 107 is on COM7, now a SFN, with the current weather propagation it could be interference from other transmitters. Is reception of 109, 110, 113 & otyher COM7 programmes OK, if so, very odd as MikeB says. See http://www.digitaluk.co.u…ngs.
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david faulkner8:33 PM
Eye
Thanks for the prompt responses...
our postcode is IP23 8LP and, to my knowledge is not a "pain" area...in face we have had zero problems and nothing short of superb reception since DSO
As I said it seems strange thet the other tuners all work OK, as did our TV until fairly recently after the God knows how many re-tunes we have had to do this year
I checked and there are no system updates (it is conmnected to broadband anyway so they would have happened overnight)
ps...off topic but any ideas why I am not receiving email updates to these replies?.... I am not subscribing to the general feeds
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david's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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david faulkner8:37 PM
Eye
thanks for the prompt replies
our postcode is IP23 8LP and to my knowledge this is not a "pain" area - in fact the service has been superb since full DSO :)
What I cant grasp is why the other 2 boxes are OK (and a second TV) also
ps..any ideas why I am not receiving email notifications about this post (the box is ticked).... I am not subscribing to the feeds at all
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david's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE11:45 PM
david faulkner:
AFAIK email updates are only weekly, I get mine early on a Wednesday.
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Thursday, 18 July 2019
MikeP
9:32 AM
9:32 AM
Chris.SE & David:
I get mine daily, at about 2015. It all depends on how you set up ther email options on this website.
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Chris.SE10:25 AM
MikeP:
Thanks Mike. I thought there was a setting but didn't find it on a quick look.
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