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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Friday, 28 June 2019
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John musty6:29 PM
Please let us know why our free view bbc 1 & itv is loosing signal strength and we cannot get hd channels st all. This had occurred over the least week.
Thank you
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Thursday, 25 July 2019
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James Carey3:10 PM
Somebody should read through this document line by line. It contains errors.
JRC
25 July 2019
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Chris.SE11:01 PM
James Carey:
As has been posted many time on various pages around this site, unfortunately the site owner has not had time to bring the details of circa 1000 transmitters fully up-to-date, this has been compounded by some bugs in the scripts which mean many transmitter pages are showing the final channel locations when the 700Mhz clearance hasn't yet been completed.
Changes for Dover (retune events) are currently scheduled to take place on the 22nd August & 16th October.
Put your postcode into Digital UK - Coverage checker to see the predicted coverage at your location & any upcoming retune events or reception changes.
Digital UK | Channel listings is generally up-to-date (but not today!)
Service Updates | Freeview is often worth keeping an eye on even if the information isn't always well explained.
John musty:
It is most likely that your problems are being caused by the current weather & propagation conditions resulting in interference from other transmitters (UK & Europe). DON'T retune as you may lose channels and have to retune again when conditions stabilise.
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Wednesday, 21 August 2019
hello everyone margate Relay has had is BBC A Frequency changed today from CH 50 to CH 33
plus a new site is also being turned on this week in Ashford & is a Relay for Dover but only BBC A is being turned on & will be on CH 33. the rest of freeview will come on in oct 16. got this info from Digital uk's website http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf
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Friday, 23 August 2019
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Bill6:02 PM
Small 18 yr old loft aerial installed by the housebuilders pointing towards Dover from Ashford. All but one TV retuned and picked up BBC A on ch.33. New signal may be weaker than prior to retune, probably because the aerial is not wideband, after googling how to identify wideband aerial. We've also had occasional problems with TV channels on ch.35 come to think of it.
I have another disused 'wide band' loft aerial which I aimed at new Ashford relay using compass bearings provided by digitaluk, and can confirm it is working with just BBC A channels with the TV that could no longer get same channels from Dover.
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Sunday, 25 August 2019
Bill you will get those channels that Dover has on Oct16 on the Ashford relay. same is happing on the Margate site also digital uk now call margate a main site. both those sites are SFN so all Frequency's are the same as Dover. BBC ch50 is still going out from Dover so that could be why signal is not as good as it should be on ch 33. as the signal bar shows 100% but the other bar go up to 100% but go's down to 69% so wont stay hight this on my tv in my room but the other tv stays hight all the time. the only thing i can think of is ch33 is not using 80,000W jest yet & ch50 still is.
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Monday, 26 August 2019
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Michael Jukes7:11 AM
Hastings
At TN35 4QR.
No BBC 1 BBC 2 or BBC News or BBC Parliament yesterday pm (25th August) or now 08:07 26/08/2019.
Usually no problem with signal.
All other channels receiving as usual.
Your website indicates no engineering work but there seems to be a problem.
Yes, I have rebooted my TV (Yesterday) but problem persists.
I leave it your capable hands,
Michael Jukes.
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Michael's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
MikeP
8:49 AM
8:49 AM
Michael Jukes:
There are planned engineering works at the Dover transmitter, see http://www.digitaluk.co.u…rks. That means there could erll be various service interuptions, so DO NOT RETUNE.
This website has no connection with any broadcaster nor transmitter operator (mainly Arqiva) so we cannot do anything to abate the problem.
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MikeP I looking on that site all sites listed are relays with blue bell hill. but that Dover listed is one of its relays not Dover its self. Michael Jukes your Transmitter mite not be Dover but a other one.
put your post code & house number here Digital UK - Coverage checker
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MikeP
9:14 PM
9:14 PM
Michael Jukes:
Ypu wpuld do better to use Digital UK - Coverage checker instead of that mentioned by David Ayling. Then you can set it with your full post code, select the detailed view and give a house number. Then press Go. Scroll down and examine the transmitters mentioned and look at the expected reception for your location. That is what I did initially.
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