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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.
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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.
| Mux | Aerial position | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
PSB1
BBCA | horizontal max | C49 (698.0MHz) | 43m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 500W |
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1 BBC One East, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 301, plus 12 others 200 BBC Red Button, 700 BBC Radio 1, 701 BBC 1Xtra, 702 BBC Radio 2, 703 BBC Radio 3, 704 BBC Radio 4, 705 BBC Radio 5 Live, 706 BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, 707 BBC 6 Music, 708 BBC Radio 4 Extra, 709 BBC Asian Network, 710 BBC World Service,
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PSB2
D3+4 | horizontal max | C52 (722.0MHz) | 43m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 500W |
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3 ITV (Anglia (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 South ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Anglia east),
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PSB3
BBCB | horizontal max | C42 (642.0MHz) | 43m | 256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4 | 500W |
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101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, plus 1 others 232 The Space,
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The
Burnham on Crouch (Essex, England) mast is a
public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these
commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Community Channel, Dave, Dave ja vu, E4+1, Film 4, Food Network, ITV 2 +1, ITV 3, ITV 4, Movie Mix, PICK TV, Quest, Really, RT English , Sky News, The Zone, VIVA, Yesterday.
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80
Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the
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Regional news from the Burnham on Crouch transmitter
How the transmission frequencies change over time
| years | | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-18 | |
| aerial group | | A B C/D E K VHF | A B C/D E K VHF | A B C/D E K VHF | B E | B E | B E | |
| C42 | | | | | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |
| 700 | C49 | | | | | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |
| C52 | | | | | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |
| orange background for multiplexes names more | green background for transmission frequencies | lilac background for power levels in watts | 800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013 | 700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more | 600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more |
Notes:
+ and
- denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as
A B C/D E K WItalics for
analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 6th July and 20th July 2011.
Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels
History of Channel 3 in the Sudbury transmitter area
| Oct 1959-Feb 2004 | Anglia Television |
| Feb 2004-Dec 2014 | ITV plc |
| | Feb 1983-Dec 1992 | TV-am• |
| Jan 1993-Sep 2010 | GMTV• |
| Sep 2010-Dec 2014 | ITV Daybreak• |
|
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Burnham on Crouch was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.
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steveeThursday 23 December 2010 7:48PM
The Burnham on Crouch (new) transmitter:
is this actually live now?
i've been having problems picking up a clean anglia signal in Southminster, Essex when pointing antenna (north'sh) to Sudbury transmitter. I'm getting a an average signal but with interference. i'm also picking up kent (merridian tv) on ITV which i'd normally get if i was pointing antenna south'ish.
any ideas on just getting anglia for ITV.
the burnham transmitter is my antenna pointing south'sh - the same as kent transmitter
stevee: No, the transmitter is not live, it comes on 6th/20th July 2011, as above. CJThursday 30 December 2010 10:01PM
Stevee
We live in Southminster too and have the same problem we can only get Anglia on analogue on digital we pick up Meridan instead. Our aerial man is baffled have you solved it yet?? CJCJ: There's not very much to baffled about. Your local relay transmitter provides Anglia, but no digital services until 2012.
The nearest digital transmitter is over the water in the Meridian (Kent) region. fred johnsonFriday 4 February 2011 3:31PM
Burnham-on-crouch Burnham on Crouch (new) transmitter.
Confusion, is it July 2011 or 2012 that it starts transmitting ?fred johnson: As above, Wednesday, 6th July 2011. i kingThursday 7 July 2011 2:00PM
Rayleigh i live in rayleigh essex i am tuned into blue bell hill, when you retune does the tuning pick up the best transmitter.Andrew Thursday 7 July 2011 4:27PM
I live in Burnham and have a Sudbury facing aerial for analogue up to now we have got Digital at about 30% from Dover (presumably off the back of the aerial). Since the BOC transmitter went live yesterday (BBC only) the signal has gone up to about 85% for the BBC channels , to my suprise though this is off the Sudbury transmitter (ch 44) the BOC transmitter (ch48) is only showing 75%. Now our aerial is admitadly sideways on to the BOC transmitter but at half mile range I wouldn`t expect this to be an issue. I also tried a portable digital aerial which was still completely useless. Is the Burnham Transmitter going to get stronger? I also can`t get reliable teletext on any BBC channel. It seems at the moment having a Dover facing aerial for Digital is a much better option? Dover has always been the strongest Analogue signal (its what my potables get)I just used Anglia out of preference.Mike DimmickThursday 7 July 2011 11:22PM
i king, Andrew: Your aerial is directional. It is designed to amplify the signals coming from directly in front of it, and reduce pick-up of transmissions coming from the side. The width of the area it picks up from - called the acceptance angle - depends on the design of the aerial, but generally larger aerials with more elements have a narrower acceptance angle.
If you want to use the Burnham-on-Crouch transmitter, you will usually get better results by pointing the aerial directly to it.
i king: it depends on the box. Some just store the first version found, some the strongest or best quality. Newer boxes will ask which region you want to store, if signals from more than one region are detected. Digital UK predict that you should get better results from Sudbury (plus the contribution from Rouncefall on the same channels) than from Bluebell Hill, so an aerial move might be worthwhile, but you might not get all multiplexes until next June when Bluebell Hill switches over. Still, they predict that you can't get all multiplexes now.
Andrew: Your box may be one that just tunes in the first version it finds. Dover Mux 1 is on a lower frequency (C45) than Sudbury Mux 1 was until yesterday (C49, now C44). Burnham-on-Crouch has started up at 100W and will eventually go up to 500W next June - you would also need to retune as it's currently using temporary channels.
Digital does not carry 'teletext' as such. The teletext button on your TV remote won't do anything. Press the red button on the set-top box remote to access BBC digital text, or the dedicated subtitles button to get subtitles.RobTuesday 2 August 2011 10:23PM
Will I be able to get a better digital signal in Rochford from the new BOC transmitter? regardsRob: Please provide a full (not partial) postcode (or preferably enter it in box at the top right) and indicate where if aerial is on the roof, in the loft or elsewhere. David RaynerWednesday 25 January 2012 10:18PM
Southend-on-sea I'm just over from Burnham in Southend (SS2 4TE) Would I be able to pick up & receive Anglia from this new transmitter (we've been receiving variable quality anglia for about 18 years from the Sudbury transmitter - 14 Element aerial througha signal combiner with London & Meridian groups) - thank you, regards, DavidDavid Rayner: Burnham transmits only the Public Sector Broadcaster (PSB) services. You will need to retain another aerial on another transmitter to pick up the commercial services.
The aerial group for Sudbury and Burnham are the same, so if you have a group (non-wideband) aerial for Sudbury, then you will be OK with it on the Burnham relay. David Rayner: You should be aware that BBC standard definition and HD services from Burnham are currently on low power of 100W and on temporary channels. On 27th June they will move to their perminant channels at their full final power of 500W. ITV1/C4 etc is already at 500W, so you might find that you can pick up those but not BBC and HD. It depends where you are exactly as to whether you will need that extra power in the signal. John SeamanThursday 2 February 2012 10:40PM
Burnham-on-crouch Are there any plans to turn the Burnham-on-Crouch into a full service transmitter?
I live in Burnham and have never been able to pick up a signal from Sudbury so I do not have the option of of using Sudbury as a full service provider.mrs jamesThursday 19 April 2012 8:32AM
Wickford i live in ss120hw i have spent nine hours trying to get my sony dvd recorder sony rdr-hx525/hx725 in. it wont pick up more than 2 pretsets and i have tried to put them in manually but cant find channel 5. even then the picture is rubbish. can you help. what are the new preset channel numbers or am i wasting my time. my partner and i are disabled and it is do our head in. thank you.Mike DimmickThursday 19 April 2012 1:59PM
mrs james: This device cannot pick up digital TV transmissions, only analogue ones. You're likely picking up transmissions from Bluebell Hill now that Crystal Palace only broadcasts digital. Bluebell Hill analogue transmissions will end in June.
The only way to make this recorder work from now on is to use another box to decode the signals. If you only want to record a programme that you're watching on TV, and the TV has a digital tuner built-in, you should be able to record from the SCART socket. The manual is at 
http://pdf.crse.com/manua….pdf - see Recording From Connected Equipment on p61.
Alternatively if you have a Freeview box, you should be able to set it up to come on automatically at the scheduled recording time, and record from that - again, see p61 to record from a SCART-connected device.
Unfortunately you can't record one thing while watching another unless you have a decoder box specifically for this recorder.
If you don't have Freeview equipment, you'll have to get some. Since you said you're disabled, you should be able to get help from the Switchover Help Scheme. See 
The Switchover Help Scheme can help you make the switch to digital TV. | Switchover Help Scheme for advice.
This is all a real pain to set up, and it's certainly easier to get a hard-disk-based Freeview PVR. There are some hard disk and DVD or BluRay combo recorders available. The Help Scheme may be able to set one of these up for you, but you'll have to pay the extra over the usual box they provide. DavidMonday 7 May 2012 7:29PM
Burnham-on-crouch I live in Southminster and have been considering replacing my Sudbury aerial to accommodate the wider bandwidth needed.
Would I be better off pointing my existing group B aerial to this new transmitter instead?
I note there's no ITV4 listed. Is this due to be included on the B.O.C. transmitter soon?updates
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