The Sudbury transmitting station is a facility for
telecommunications
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and
broadcasting
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transmission
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Medicine, science and technology
* Power transmission
** Electric power transmission
** Propulsion transmission, technology allowing controlled application of power
*** Automatic transmission
*** Manual transmission
*** ...
at
Sudbury Sudbury may refer to:
Places Australia
* Sudbury Reef, Queensland
Canada
* Greater Sudbury, Ontario (official name; the city continues to be known simply as Sudbury for most purposes)
** Sudbury (electoral district), one of the city's federal e ...
,
England
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. It consists of two guyed masts, one, the original, being high, and a second mast (no longer in service) at . They have
antennas
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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 (se
graph.
Services available from this site
Digital radio
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
See also
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List of masts
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References
External links
Info and pictures of Sudbury transmitter including historical power/frequency changes and present co-receivable transmitters.Entry at the Transmission Gallery
Transmitter sites in England
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