Full Freeview on the Dover (Kent, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Dover (Kent, England) transmitter which serves 190,000 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.
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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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Dover (Kent, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Dover 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Dover (Kent, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Dover transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 69km west (270°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 52km west-northwest (289°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Dover (Kent, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1960-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 16 Oct 2019 | ||||
VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | ||||
C10 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C33 | BBCA | ||||||||
C35 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
C39 | SDN | ||||||||
C42 | ArqA | ||||||||
C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C50tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | |||||
C51tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
C55tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
C56tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
C57tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
C59tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
C66 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves |
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 13 Jun 12 and 27 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-1dB) 80kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-4dB) 40kW | |
Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux C* | (-20dB) 1000W | |
Mux D* | (-23dB) 500W |
Local transmitter maps
Dover Freeview Dover DAB Dover TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Dover transmitter area
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Friday, 15 June 2012
DOVER transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal; DSO related from 00:37 on 13 Jun BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 23:57 on 12 Jun to 00:36 on 13 Jun BBC ONE Weak Signal; DSO related from 05:02 on 12 Jun to 23:57 on 12 Jun BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 01:23 on 12 Jun to 05:02 [BBC]
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Andrew Walter: There is always the possibility that you need even more attenuation than you have. Perhaps connecting two attenuators inline with one another, one of them being a variable one.
The mast head amp needs removing, no doubt. With it in installed, its the signal from the aerial could be too high for the amp to cope with. Thus the signal will distort at the amp.
So the output of the amp will always be distorted. Adding attenuation will therefore give you a smaller distorted signal.
To pick-up less signal, whilst tuned to C50, try a 12 to 18 inch piece of wire inserted into the inner part of the aerial socket. Or use a set-top aerial. Or, as a crude attenuator, try your roof top aerial with a section of the screening removed so as to "loose" some signal.
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David 2:08 PM
so how come im ok with my signal here in sandwich then. also my aerial is in the loft & i get 90%
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David: The two main factors that increase the likelihood are:
1. Proximity - the closer you are, the stronger the signal that is in the air. (Obviously the more off line of sight you are, the less likely that you are going to get too much signal, e.g. if you are in a valley but not very far from the transmitter).
2. People who upgraded their aerials because there old ones weren't sufficiently sensitive to pick up the low power pre-switchover signals may find that their aerials are now too sensitive. These would "tend" to be further away than those who aerials were sensitive enough.
Again, distance isn't everything. People can live close but with obstructions and without line of sight.
The point is that the difference between the pre-switchover digital and post switchover digital is big.
Digital reception is about thresholds. So you need enough level of signal to get a picture (the lower threshold) and not too much as to exceed the upper threshold.
Those who, before switchover, had sufficient signal level (to be above the lower threshold), but which was below the upper threshold by an amount greater than the increase in strength (before vs after) will therefore be OK.
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Kathie5:20 PM
Following switchover on Wednesday I could not receive any BBC channels. After speaking with the helpdesk of my digibox supplier I managed to complete the "factory retune" and all of the BBC channels appeared. Now however I can't get Yesterday or ITV4. My signal comes from the Dover transmitter covering the "south east area" (rather than the Kent area which only has 17 available channels). Any ideas what else I can do to recover Yesterday and ITV4 without losing BBC? Thanks
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Kathie: Yesterday, ITV4 etc from Dover is currently on C55, so if your set has manual tuning, try tuning to it.
If you can't get it, it could be that previously you were "only just" able to receive it due to its weak strength. The strong BBC signal may have had an adverse effect on reception of other channels. This should correct itself when you retune on 27th.
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derek strand10:53 PM
Ashford
Just to say that we are in Ashford and have had problems with our digital recorder not saving BBC1 after the switch over on 13th - since reading this forum we have turned our booster down and it appears that this has corrected the missing BBC chanels from Dover, many thanks - it is just a shame that this information is not made available via local press etc so that those who do not have internet could be aware.
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Saturday, 16 June 2012
DOVER transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal; DSO related from 00:37 on 13 Jun BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 01:23 on 12 Jun to 05:02 on 12 Jun BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 23:57 on 12 Jun to 00:36 on 13 Jun BBC ONE Weak Signal; DSO related from 05:02 on 12 Jun to 23:57 [BBC]
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DOVER transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal; DSO related from 00:37 on 13 Jun BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 01:23 on 12 Jun to 05:02 on 12 Jun BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 23:57 on 12 Jun to 00:36 on 13 Jun BBC ONE Weak Signal; DSO related from 05:02 on 12 Jun to 23:57 [BBC]
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4:45 PM
Thanks for the advice, I will wait until after 27th to see what happens. Interestingly our neighbour can get channels that we can't, don't know whether he's got better equipment than us or whether he's just lucky. Not much of this information is available anywhere else, we were beginning to worry that we'd bought all this new equipment only for the TV service to be WORSE.
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