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, 17 October 2019
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StevensOnln13:20 PM
Linda Bushell: The Dover transmitter changed frequencies yesterday. If you contact the Freeview Advice Line (see link below) they can arrange for a replacement wideband aerial to be fitted free of charge if you don't have satellite or cable.
Important changes to Freeview | Freeview
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Chris.SE7:09 PM
Linda Bushell: & StevensOnln1:
I hope they arrange for a Group K, a wideband is not needed for Dover ;)
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Friday, 18 October 2019
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Linda Bushell 8:05 AM
StevensOnln1:
Have already done so thank you, coming to sort out problem, likely new aerial in about 12 days as very busy. Thanks.
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Sunday, 29 December 2019
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Graham5:09 PM
All day today 29th December HD channels are all
Showing no signal.
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Monday, 30 December 2019
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Chris.SE3:47 AM
Graham:
There are unusually high levels of "Tropospheric propagation" at present, often associated with High Pressure weather systems.
These levels of propagation are unusual at this time of year - they cause signals from more distant transmitters to travel a lot further than normal. It is currently affecting different parts of the country by varying degrees and signals can change by the second or remain stable for much longer periods.
In the old "analogue" days there was a lot of talk about "continental" interference often in the summer months, but the interference can come from transmitters anywhere in the UK or Europe and even further afield. At the moment some people are getting DAB radio from the Netherlands and FM Radio from France as well as the interference to DTV.
It is predicted to continue for a couple more days, and you are advise NOT to retune as you will likely lose the correct tuning that you had. The "propagation" can be very frequency dependent, and it can only affected one frequency or several, but it can/will be different for others.
People will however have noticed the unusually mild weather which the Met office is referring to as a "Foehn effect" but it's not helpful that it seems none of the major broadcasters are making any reference to the interference being caused to TV and Radio reception! So it's no surprise that people wonder what is going on and think there is a transmitter problem.
For those that have retuned and lost correct tuning, you will have to try again and it could be hit and miss whilst the unusual propagation continues. If you are able to do a manual tune for the correct UHF channels, you may still receive interference or the wrong programmes.
If you are able to do a manual tune the correct UHF channels for Dover are -
C33, C35, C36, C39, C42 & C48. If you don't have an HD tuner, ignore C36.
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Saturday, 12 September 2020
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Jane Ward8:30 PM
Leigh-on-sea
SS9 3EN MY airial is set towards a Kent as I live behind tall buildings preventing me fro receiving from LondonI
. Lately I have lost some or all my Freeview channels.I put this down to atmospheric interference as it would come and go while watching. But the last 2 days I have lost all reception. I tried to retune and lost all the usual channels. I see the signal should be strong but wonder why I'm having such problems and lack of any reception.
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Jane's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 13 September 2020
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Chris.SE4:37 AM
Jane Ward:
Your predicted reception from Dover is very variable at the best of times, but the transmitter is also currently listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible weak signal". The aerial should be pointing at a bearing of 137 degrees for Dover at your location, that's ~SE.
I don't know if you have an unobstructed view at bearing 199 degrees that's almost SSW which would point to the Bluebell Hill transmitter which has slightly less variable reception.
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Chris.SE4:54 AM
Jane Ward:
Meant to add that retuning when you have no signal is never a good idea as it will usually just clear all correct tuning, and you have to retune again when signals return.
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Monday, 26 October 2020
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Geoff8:23 PM
As your image states UK Free TV I hope you can clear up an issue relating to Sony Classic / Christmas Movie channel that again Sony have again allotted not to c`over the SE corner of UK via the Dover Transmitter region. Contact with Free View on this issue have advised that it is a Sony UK decision, how this can be is a surprise that Sony can decide what parts of the UK gets what
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Chris.SE9:10 PM
Geoff:
This and a number of other Sony channels, Sony moved to Local Multiplexes during summer 2019.
For which channels are on which multiplexes, see https://www.freeview.co.u…ngs.
Sony will have been well aware of which transmitters carry Local multiplexes. These multiplexes are on a limited number of main transmitters that generally serve large urban centres of population.
Transmissions are at lower power than the main multiplexes (however the mode of transmission compensates for this to a large degree) but they are frequently beamed towards the urban areas. This means you might be served by a transmitter which has a Local multiplex but not able to receive it because you location is not covered by that beam.
This will be a commercial decision by Sony, costs of being on a Local multiplex will be lower than one of the main COM multiplexes. You could try contacting Sony Pictures TV (see https://media.info/organi…on), the more that do then the more likely they may change something!
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