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
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Sunday, 10 June 2012
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david1:18 PM
Do you no why BBC One analogue swaps to C56. on stage one of the switch over
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david: This happens with some transmitters at switchover, where one of the analogue services takes the place of BBC Two analogue so as to throw another free.
C56 is not used at all by Dover after switchover as it is to be used by Sudbury for one of its Commercial multiplexes. These are on temporary channels at very low power which has caused many complaints from people who now can't receive them.
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
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John Gorham3:45 PM
Rye
Hello.
Since this morning, BBC 1 and BBC 2 digital have a very "fuzzy" picture. This is via our digital TV with built in free view. We have a Freeview recorder box, and the picture is better on that.
Why has our picture degraded since last night, how do we put it right. we have retuned, twice.
Thanks
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Andrew Walter9:45 PM
Dover
Since retuning this morning we have not been able to get the BBC channels very clearly. Reading earlier comments and one in particular from David Lindsay explaining about the usage of C56. Am I right in thinking that the reception of the BBC channels will get better on the 27th June and until then we are stuck with unwatchable BBC.
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Andrew's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Andrew Walter: The BBC channels from Dover on C50 are as they will be after 27th. That is, they have "switched". Obviously check that they are coming in on C50 and not another channel which would indicate that your receiver is tuned elsewhere which would therefore be the problem.
At under 3 miles from the 80kW transmitter your receiver could be being overwhelmed by the strength of the signal. Therefore this could get worse when all the other channels go up to full power.
You may need to get yourself an attenuator:
ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Gordon Ormston8:48 PM
Hi
Before the switch over in the Dover area yesterday I had no problems whatsoever in receiving all the usual channels on my Sony Digital TV. Following the switch over I am having problems with all BBC channels. ITV and most of the other channels are still perfect. I have re-tuned numberous times to no avail. The problem is constant image pixellation, broken sound quality and frequent loss of tuning. I have spoken three times to 'digitaluk' and despite their best efforts they have no idea why this is happening. Prior to switch over no problems receiving digital signals and nothing my end has changed can you help? Tried fitting an inline booster, this improved the tuning issue on the BBC channels but not the pixellation and sound problems.
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david9:09 PM
hello Gordon Ormston have you rescaned by doing first install. as for using a booster i would remove it as you wont need it as the signel was boost yesterday. also see if the tv is tuned to ch50 that bbc A is using or put it in your self.
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Gordon Ormston: Confirm that it is tuned to C50.
If that doesn't fix it, then I would suspect that the signal level being fed into it is now too high and is in need of attenuation.
See Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Gordon Ormston9:45 PM
Hi David
Thanks for your comments, re-tuned using all options but whilst all ITV channels are still OK the BBC channels are breaking up. 'Loss of tuning' was a bit misleading, I meant loss of picture and BBC tuned in correctly to ch50. 'digitaluk' suggested the signal too strong as situated within 5km from transmitter. If thats the case I can't be the only person affected and begs the question was this not taken into account during the planning stage?
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Gordon Ormston10:29 PM
Hi Dave
Thanks for your reply. Have double checked and BBC definitely tuned into ch50. Am I right in thinking that on the final changeover on the 27th the same problem could occur with the other channels. Please explain what's involved in attenuation.
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