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, 25 February 2011
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malcolm4:50 PM
Dover
Thanks for all of the pointers, I have tried them but still have no BBC1 or BBC 2, so I have replaced the 24 element aerial in the loft with a new 48 element digital high gain aerial and retuned the TV's, fingers crossed that seems to have done the trick!
I hope it proves to be a permanent fix to the problem.
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Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Hello,
We are Tuesday and I have, always, a very bad quality of reception of the transmitter of Dover (analogue). I do not know what it occurs but, a thing is certain, my material of reception is not in question, indeed, I always receive the transmitter of London (Crystal Palace). Could you say to me to who must I address yourselves so that I can have an explanation? In advance, thank you.
Kind regards
Olivier from France
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Olivier: Dover transmits analogue at an ERP of 1kW, Crystal Palace at 1000kW.
The power you receive is the ERP divided by the distance (in meters) squared.
You are 100km from Dover, 200km from Crystal Palace.
This means you get, in Godewaersvelde, 250 times more powerful a signal from Crystal Palace (25mW) than from Dover (0.1mW).
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But Briantlist, I receive the transmitter of Dover since years with a perfect quality!
Why that now has you it changed since ten days ?
The power of emission of 100kw has you it lowered?
Which is the company which deals with the diffusion in England?
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Olivier: There have been no changes to the transmitters.
I would see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for things to check.
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011
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malcolm5:22 PM
Dover
I cant believe it, I'm back home from a short break away and somedays the reception is great on BBC1 & 2 and other days I cant receive it at all, so I give up.
I think I'll just wait until July 2012 and se what happens when we get the digital signal upgrade.
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Thursday, 17 March 2011
malcolm: As I said, this is just what you will expect to happen with a loft aerial.
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Sunday, 20 March 2011
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brian5:03 PM
Olivier , most of north east France went 'all digital' last month. Likely a transmitter over there on D50, D53, D56 or D66 has ramped up it's digital power or changed frequency and therefore you are getting a snowier picture from Dover. It could be somewhere a long way away but it would make a difference with marginal signals. Dover is still operating at 100kw max per channel..
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Monday, 21 March 2011
Hello Brian,
Thank you for your answer but I have thought about French new digital transmitters and I don't find transmitters which use C50, 53, 56 and 66 in France.
Also I have a rotor like you can see on my website :
My Hertzian TV Installation - Europe-Television.fr : Réception TNT hertzienne et Satellite française et etrangère en Flandres.
You can see my equipment on my video and you'll see the top quality of my english channels reception before :
antenne DX rotor tnthd59&benny
- YouTube
Kind regards
Olivier
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