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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Dover (Kent, England) mast?
Dover transmitter - Dover transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 27/11/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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, 19 September 2019
Problems with BBC and channel 26 picture keeps breaking up have checked all cabling within the house all good. Issue since Saturday 14th
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Friday, 20 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:08 AM
5:08 AM
DOVER transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:16 on 18 Sep to 00:41 on 18 Sep. [BBC]
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Saturday, 21 September 2019
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Chris.SE6:58 AM
Jane Bailey:
There has been planned Engineering work this week at Dover with "Possible service interruptions", no doubt as part of preparations for the major retune event coming up on the 16th October.
When you mention channel 26, I guess you are referring to EPG LCN25 ITVBe which is transmitted on the SDN multiplex on UHF ch.35
A reminder that there was a retune event at Dover on the 22nd August when the BBCA multiplex moved to UHF Ch.33. If you are having issues with the main BBC channels since then (and the SDN channels - see About us | Freeview and have retuned it is possible that your aerial is an old C/D group that is not able to receive the new channels sufficiently well, and it may need replacing. You can get free help if you do not have Satellite or Cable by contacting Freeview on 0808-100-0288 see Important changes to Freeview TV signals Important changes to Freeview | Freeview and also see the FAQs on that page in case they may help.
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Chris.SE7:00 AM
Sorry for the typo in the previous post, I meant "EPG LCN26 ITVBe" not LCN25!
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Friday, 27 September 2019
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Wendy Jones6:16 PM
Its Friday September 27th and there are more problems again today. The TV spontaneously says no signal. Up until today a re set or re tune works, but not today. This has happened about 6 times in this area in the past few weeks. I am not the only person complaining. Please can you sort it
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Saturday, 28 September 2019
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Chris.SE9:42 PM
Wendy Jones:
You could try reading my post(s) above yours explaining that there is Planned Engineering! I suggest you also note the information regarding aerials and recent and upcoming retune events.
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Tuesday, 1 October 2019
Transmitter engineering
11:08 PM
11:08 PM
DOVER transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 21:54 today to 21:57 today. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:08 AM
5:08 AM
DOVER transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 21:54 yesterday to 21:57 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 3 October 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:08 AM
5:08 AM
DOVER transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 21:54 on 01 Oct to 21:57 on 01 Oct. [BBC]
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Saturday, 5 October 2019
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DAVID AYLING1:16 PM
all most time to rescan again but when will the messges come up on screen to say about it. also a lot more channels will get them to.
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