Full Freeview on the Dover (Kent, England) transmitter
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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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Dover (Kent, England) transmitter._______
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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Sunday, 18 July 2021
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John Millar10:19 AM
Hello, I have a Freeview reception problem with channel 39. I live in Ramsgate and am tuned to the Dover transmitter. All TV on channel 39 often goes to low (or non-existent) signal strength and quality losing all of the TV channels on 39. I notice that it only transmits at a lower 40,000w. However I do not have trouble with any other 40,000w channel. Is there a problem with channel 39 on the Dover transmitter? Thank you.
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Hello, I have a Freeview reception problem with channel 39. I live in Ramsgate and am tuned to the Dover transmitter. The aerial is a good quality one on the roof. All TV on channel 39 often goes to low (or non-existent) signal strength and quality losing all of the TV channels on 39. All other channels are good. I notice that it only transmits at a lower 40,000w. However I do not have trouble with any other 40,000w channel. Is there a problem with channel 39 on the Dover transmitter? Thank you.
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Monday, 19 July 2021
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Chris.SE2:54 AM
John Millar:
As you can see from the post following yours, there's Planned Engineering and this is the most likely explanation.
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Thursday, 12 August 2021
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Stéphane2:25 PM
Hello,
Good reception of Dover transmitter in north of France on a little hill (176m) in the city of CASSEL.
Only PSB1 (C33) and PSB2 (C35). For PSB3 it's not possible (french transmitter around Lille on C36).
COM4,5 and 6 are too poor with H-3 dB or perhaps directivity ?
Have a good day !
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Tuesday, 16 November 2021
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Jay7:28 PM
Transmitter engineering: so sick of the poor service that freeview gives, especially the Dover transmitter. Almost weekly they do work but the reception never improves, which makes people think that the "work" is not to improve the signal for people in their homes, and more likely it's "work" that helps them. FYI freeview is not free, it is a money making entity, and people at home pay by viewing endless adverts that quite often are made to be deliberately annoying to ensure consumers remember them. I would prefer to go back to the old system as this system is totally unreliable. You can no longer be sure to sit down and watch your favourite tv show as it is now far more likely to be unwatchable due to a poor signal. BBC channels are of course suspiciously unaffected !!!!
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Chris.SE10:50 PM
Jay:
Unfortunately you can often get that impression. Dover, not unlike many other main transmitters this year, has had about 4 weeks of Planned Engineering. It's probably worth remembering that engineering didn't happen at normal levels last year because of covid.
The system is generally more reliable but the situation won't have been helped by what seems like more occurrences of "temperature inversion"or "tropospheric ducting" which can happen more readily with high pressure - this causes interference from more distant transmitters in Europe or the UK which of course means TV sets can't successfully decode the signals!
If you provide a full postcode we can look at your predicted reception. It may be that reception of some multiplexes may be a bit marginal in your locale. The commercial (COM) multiplexes are transmitted at lower power than the PSBs.
Another possibility is problems with your aerial installation. How old is it?
Dover is one of several transmitters whose original UHF channels were in aerial group C/D. With the 700MHz Clearance programme these were all moved to lower UHF channels now requiring a Group K aerial (although Wideband/Group T would do in good signal areas). Freeview did provide free help with aerials during the clearance programme.
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Wednesday, 1 December 2021
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Chris.SE4:59 PM
Eil:
I saw the gist of your comment before the system automatically moderated it. The post before yours tells you the transmitter is on planned engineering so what you are experiencing is to be expected especially if you are in a weaker signals area (need a full postcode to comment on that) or your aerial system isn't upto the mark or developed a fault.
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Tuesday, 29 March 2022
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Stephane1:15 PM
Hello, I permanently receive the multiplex BBC A from Dover on channel 33 on Mount Cassel (north of France). 5047'57.9"N 229'14.6"E. Elevation about 160m.
Antenna "tri-nappe" with C21-48 38dB pramplifier.
For the other multiplexes, the frequencies are occupied in France.
Bye !
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Chris.SE4:34 PM
Stephane:
Hope you are enjoying the BBC programmes :)
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Wednesday, 3 August 2022
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Chris.SE2:51 PM
All:
Just a reminder -
In the multiplex order BBCA/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBCB HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ArqA/COM5, ArqB/COM6
The UHF channels you should be tuned to are C33, C35, C36, C39, C42, & C48
A Group K aerial is required (though Group T/Wideband should suffice depending on location, in strong signal areas some may get away with some Group B aerials, but not recommended).
Also note that Margate and Ashford operate as an SFN with Dover, and also there is NO Local multiplex.
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