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 June 2017
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Tony2:59 PM
Since the thunder storm today, 22 June 2017, I have no TV signal to any of the TV sets in my house, I cannot find a telephone number to enquire whether there is a transmitter problem or whether my aerial has been fried by the Lightning. Help!
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StevensOnln14:33 PM
Tony: There are no faults showing for the Dover transmitter, although faults don't always show straight away so it would be worth asking your neighbours whether their Freeview is still working. If you have multiple TVs fed from the same aerial, you may well have an amplifier or powered splitter so that would be the first place to check if it has been damaged or the power supply may have failed.
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Friday, 6 October 2017
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Alastair Sim11:19 AM
Canterbury
Since yesterday around midday my freeview signal has been very weak and no channels are playing correctly or without pixelation and lost sound. I am based in Canterbury CT2... never had issues like this, aerial all looks ok as does signal booster!
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Alastair's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
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David Tyler5:36 PM
How can I receive channel 96 Forces TV. I live near Ramsgate, Kent
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StevensOnln15:59 PM
David Tyler: Please provide a full postcode so that we can access the coverage prediction for your location.
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Thursday, 19 October 2017
MikeP
2:10 PM
2:10 PM
David Tyler:
I believe that Ramsgate is served by the Dover Freeview transmitter, please correct me if that is incorrect.
Dover transmitter is a full service Freeview transmitter but it does not carry COM7 nor COM8. Forces TV is brodcast using capacity on COM8, so as Dover does not broadcast that you will not be able to receive it until the channel re-allocation occurs and Forces TV appears on a different multiplex, probably after March next year (according to the data hugher up this page).
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Tuesday, 2 January 2018
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Julian Hicks8:37 PM
Isn't the 'Dover Frequency Change' misleading or incorrect? My understnanding from the is that only the 'SDN' mulitplex is moving in Mar 2018 and that will be to Channel 35. The other moves will trake place later.
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StevensOnln111:19 PM
Julian Hicks: According to Digital UK, SDN/COM4 will move to UHF 35 on 21st March 2018, with PSB1 moving to UHF 33 in Summer 2019, then finally PSB2/3 & COM5 moving to UHF 35/36 & 42 in late 2019. I suspect this website's database wasn't designed with multiple stepped changes such as this in mind.
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Wednesday, 3 January 2018
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David Tyler7:08 PM
StevensOnln1: when will freeview channels 94 and 96 be available from the Dover transmitter?
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StevensOnln17:50 PM
David Tyler: PBS America and Forces TV are both on the temporary COM8 multiplex which is broadcast (along with COM7) from 30 main transmitter sites covering around 75% of UK households. Coverage of COM7/8 will not be expanded to any further transmitters and both are expected to close some time between 2020 and 2022. So far the only channel to move from COM7/8 to a multiplex with wider coverage is Talking Pictures, which moved on 30th November 2017. No other broadcasters have made any announcements about what will happen to their channels on COM7/8 long term.
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