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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Thursday, 22 August 2013
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Jon Shaw7:55 PM
Margate
Great news Dave, it's good to know there was a problem at the Dover end. Channel 53 had been off for 3 weeks, I'm surprised it took this long for a problem to be reported and identified though, how many thousands of people lost their HD channels I wonder?
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Jon's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 25 August 2013
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PETER HUGHES7:30 PM
Hi there. Has anyone else noticed, recently in Clacton that there is a steady increase in the rooftop aerials pointing to the DOVER transmitter? Clacton has a local LIGHT transmitter, which, of course, offers only the so called public service channels. Recently, on some days SUDBURY has been erratic with very poor Channel 56 (ITV 4 etc) which freezes or breaks up and sound sqwarks and hiccups. Even Channel 41 (Anglia ITV,Channels 4 and 5 etc), has been touchy (normal readings I get are 81% strength and 97% quality but disturbed readings fluctuating all over the place although BBC radio and tv group on channel 44 has remain rock steady all the time) Might consider another aerial for Dover but it will mean wrong regional news (Meridian etc).
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PETER HUGHES: The Clacton PSB relay transmitter is horizontally polarised, so reception of it might be good enough with a Dover-facing aerial.
Combing feeds from Dover and Clacton with a diplexer will not be possible due to channel allocations. The same goes with Sudbury's PSBs and Dover's COMs as COM6 is on C48.
What I would suggest is to use Dover as the main transmitter whilst having the signal from the Clacton relay fed into a separate set-top box for when regional programmes are being broadcast. I appreciate that this might not be convenient for cases where signals are distributed to more than one room. That said the strength of the Clacton transmitter may be such that it can be split using an unpower splitter which would reduce the cost of a second distribution system for regional viewing. That said, it would require a separate set-top box at each TV.
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Tuesday, 27 August 2013
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nick11:01 PM
Dover comes in ok in Aldeburgh most of the time, except for mux on c48, Sudbury gets knocked out by Dutchmen.
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Thursday, 5 September 2013
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Stuart8:09 PM
No reception on Dover for the ITV mux at all tonight, also BBC1 mux went off for a while as well.
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Saturday, 26 October 2013
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Mark1:01 PM
Lost all TV channels just now, after several retunes got 40 channels back but lost all HD channels..
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Thursday, 12 December 2013
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Tony McCully11:04 PM
Sandwich
During the last couple of days my ITV/Channel 4 stations have no signal. I have retuned and followed the reset procedure. When I have done the latter as this evening ( 12 December) it was okay for maybe half an hour then the channels were lost again, I live in Sandwich, Kent. I have not changed any of the equipment or aware of any interference or damage.
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Tony's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tony McCully: It's the lift conditions which are causing distant transmissions to carry much further than they normally would. Don't retune unless you wish to loose these services completely or wish to see if you can pick up distant transmissions.
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Friday, 13 December 2013
Hi all, I run an antenna installation company in East Kent, covering Thanet, Canterbury, Sandwich, Deal, Dover, Folkestone, Whitstable, Herne, Herne Bay, Rochester and all areas in-between. Yesterday at work I had many problems with customers not receiving certain channels. There appears to be some interference on UHF channels 48 and 59. A colleague from another company working in Herne Bay yesterday had issues with Muxes on these channels. On my Spectrum analyser it showed unusually poor VBER readings on 59. Thought this might help someone with problems on these channels.
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Steve Welton: It's the lift conditions. They have been causing havock on the east side of the country from Kent and Sussex in the south all the way up to Yorkshire.
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