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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Friday, 9 September 2016
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Chris1:13 PM
BBC4 is no longer available from the Dover transmitter. Tis is a copy of the complaint I sent to the BBC.
I am served by the Dover transmitter and BBC4 HD is not available here. Given the content of BBC4, drama, films, arts etc. programmes you sit and watch it is ideally suite to HD. It seemed you considered the Olympics important enough to re configure things to make HD available then and I would like to know why you now consider BBC4 not a priority for HD transmission. We are always prompted "also in HD" Not Here. It is unfair to pay the same license fee but not get the full BBC services in this area. I have contacted Ofcom and Digital U.K. who both say the decision is yours. I would be interested to hear your justification
Chris
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MikeP
2:34 PM
2:34 PM
Chris:
BBC4 HD was provided on more transmitters than usual for the duration of the Rio Olympics only. It may no longer be available on many of the smaller transmitters. It was a decision by the BBC to allow extended coverage of the Olympics and as that has now finished they do not wish to pay the extra operating costs to keep it available on so many transmitters.
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StevensOnln12:58 PM
Chris: In addition to MikeP's comments, there is no spare capacity for BBC 4 HD to be broadcast from Dover (or any other transmitter which does not already carry it). The capacity used during the Olympics was created by moving CBBC HD to the commercial capacity which BBC 4 HD normally uses and was subsequently reversed after the Olympics ended. CBBC HD broadcasts until 9pm each evening whilst BBC 4 HD starts at 7pm so it is not possible for both channels to share capacity in the way that CBBC HD and BBC 3 HD used to when CBBC HD used to end just before 7pm with BBC 3 HD starting immediately after.
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Saturday, 10 September 2016
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chris10:05 AM
Thanks for your comments, but the BBC could still choose to put BBC4 on the HD multiplex and not CBBC it really is a matter of which service is most benefitted by HD.
Chris
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Thursday, 15 December 2016
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Mr Fooley7:01 PM
Why is the signal poor some of the channels intermittently pixelate my TV
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StevensOnln110:55 PM
Mr Fooley: Please provide a postcode so we can see the predicted signal strength and available transmitters at your location.
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Thursday, 19 January 2017
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Paul10:01 AM
Mr Fooley:I have the same problems with quality of the signal of some of my channels while other are fine.
I have carried a freeview reset procedure and it has made no difference at all.
Channels like BBC 1 is fine and has a good quality of the signal, but channels like Yesterday have a very poor quality of the signal and you can't watch them at all. I live in Ashford, Kent.
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MikeP
4:20 PM
4:20 PM
Paul and Mr Foley:
We need a full post code so we can look up what the transmission and reception conditions are where you live.
The other thing you must do is to check what the signal strengths are for all the available multiplexes and report them here. Then we can see if you have too much or too little signal.
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Wednesday, 24 May 2017
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Steve Addis10:26 PM
Dover
Hi
I tried to watch the free to air football this evening on BT Showcase which should have been on freeview channel 115. I was unable to find it. I tried a retune but I still could not find it.
My postcode is .CT15 7QB. My address is 15 The Grange, Shepherdswell, Dover, Kent. My aerial is high up on the wall of my house and points towards your Dover transmitter. I can view other channels on Freeview.
Does channel 115 get broadcast from the Dover transmitter?
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StevensOnln111:10 PM
Steve Addis: BT Showcase HD is not broadcast from the Dover transmitter, nor from any other that you are likely to be able to receive at your location.
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