Sudbury transmitting station
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 high, and a second mast at. They have antennas attached at various heights. It is situated WSW of Ipswich at a site height of. 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. However, most B group, E group and wideband aerials will continue to work fine on it.
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, Somersham, Wivenhoe Park, and Woodbridge.
Services available from this site
Digital television
- Aerial group K is required to receive all channels.
Before switchover
† Low power transmission from Sudbury B.Analogue television
- Aerial group: B
- Polarisation: horizontal