Sudbury transmitting station

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The Sudbury transmitting station is a facility for telecommunications and broadcasting transmission at Sudbury, England. It consists of two guyed masts, one, the original, being Template:Convert high, and a second mast (no longer in service) at Template:Convert. They have antennas attached at various heights. It is situated 14 miles WSW of Ipswich at a site height of 70m. All 6 Digital TV MUXES are transmitted from Sudbury using an omnidirectional pattern at an ERP of 100 kW. Originally Sudbury was a B group transmitter but in order to accommodate the digital transmissions it went E group then, at its 700MHz clearance in August 2018, it ended up a K group (or wideband). However, most B group, E group and wideband aerials will continue to work fine on it (see graph).

It broadcast television and radio services to central and southern Suffolk and most of Essex, however southern areas of the county received a better TV signal from the Crystal Palace TV transmitter. This includes cities and towns such as Ipswich, Chelmsford, Colchester, Southend, Clacton-on-Sea and Haverhill. Signals can also be received as far as north Kent.

This transmitter has 8 local relays: Burnham-on-Crouch, Clacton, Felixstowe, Ipswich Stoke, Rouncefall (Ashingdon Essex), Somersham, Wivenhoe Park, and Woodbridge. [1]

Services available from this site

Digital radio

Frequency Block kW[2] Operator
222.064 MHz 11D 1 Digital One
225.648 MHz 12B 2.4 BBC National DAB
229.072 MHz 12D 1 NOW Essex

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Analogue television

Frequency UHF kW[3] Service
Template:UK System I 35 50 Channel 5
Template:UK System I 41 250 Anglia
Template:UK System I 44 250 BBC2 East
Template:UK System I 47 250 Channel 4
Template:UK System I 51 250 BBC1 East

See also

References

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External links

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  2. Radio Listeners Guide 2010
  3. Television Viewers Guide 2009