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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Saturday, 14 April 2012
m kinsella: I would second David's suggestion!
It should sort itself out then. In the mean time, switch to analogue to watch BBC and ITV regional programmes.
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Chris Baldwin: Try tuning to Dover's analogue services which are 50, 56, 66 and 53.
It does depend on whether there are any French transmitters that are co-channel that may interfere at your location.
The green coverage area above suggests that along the French coast it may be possible to pick it up.
Due to the fact that the powers that be will not release the radition patterns of Dover's post-DSO multiplexes, the above is an assumption.
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Thursday, 26 April 2012
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Julian Hicks6:08 PM
Ashford
Just wondered why different transmitters in the South East will have different 'transmission power' values post DSO.
I'm in Ashford, some parts of which have traditionally had poor coverage from Dover. Like many others, my rooftop aerial was changed to 'point the other way' to Heathfield and the signal boosted to get any chance of Freeview coverage, which is 'sort of' OK most of the time.
Obviously it will get much better when Heathfield gets DSO, but I note that Heathfield goes from 1.6kW/1kW to 20kW 'post DSO' whereas Dover goes from 2kW/1kW/500W to 80kW/40kW.
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Julian's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
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Roy Thomson10:28 PM
Canterbury
CT2 9EE
My analogue reception is very poor but under the right conditions I can receive a reasonable digital signal. This reasonable digital signal is lost in wet weather. I understand on switch over the dig. signal strength will increase, My high gain roof aerial is directed to the Dover transmitter because of hills I don't have an unrestricted sight line to Dover. Will the increase signal strength on the 27th of June overcome my problems or do give in and switch to Sky?
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Roy's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
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jb386:59 AM
Roy Thomson: Well considering that you can presently receive a Freeview signal at all from multiplexes operating on 2Kw (BBC1 1Kw) albeit in an intermittent fashion, then the chances are that when the station switches to high powered operation on June 27th when the PSB muxes are increasing to 80Kw and the commercials to 40Kw there is a good chance that your present difficulty will vanish.
By the way the BBC mux (and only BBC) will change to high power on June 13th ahead of the other five muxes.
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Friday, 18 May 2012
Julian Hicks: The output levels are changed so that the coverage of the three PSB multiplexes matches that of the four analogue channels before switchover.
In Kent, in particular, the levels have to be selected with great care, because France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands are very close, at least as far as radio signals are concerned.
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Sunday, 27 May 2012
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John White10:12 AM
Brighton
I live in Brighton, my arial is tuned into Dover. When will the change over affect my Freeview box?. I am presently with Virgin but will be cancelling providing I can still receive Freeview.
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
John White: If your post code is BN2 9YJ, then I don't think you have any chance of ever receiving from Dover!
Considering that you are around 600 metres from the Whitehawk Hill transmitter, then why would your aerial not be directed at it???
It switched over in March and even before switchover you would have been expected to have had good reception at such close proximity.
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Josh
9:01 AM
9:01 AM
@Briantist: You DO NOT need a TV licence to own a TV set! If you read the information at tvlicensing.co.uk, it will even tell you that you don't need a TV licence if you use a TV for the purpose of not watching live broadcasts, but instead watching DVDs, using a games console etc. Sorry to seem blunt.
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Monday, 4 June 2012
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Pete S6:36 PM
Canterbury
No question or answer.
I can't find any other way of getting notification of comments about the Dover Transmitter
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Pete's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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