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, 5 October 2019
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Chris.SE8:34 PM
DAVID AYLING:
Information about the retune is here in my post of 21st September. Arqiva do not state when they will start putting the prompts up on screen for the retune but I would guess not before next weekend.
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Monday, 14 October 2019
Transmitter engineering
8:08 PM
8:08 PM
DOVER transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 18:43 today to 18:52 today. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:08 AM
5:08 AM
DOVER transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 18:43 yesterday to 18:52 yesterday. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Nicola Tinkler12:23 AM
I have a Sony normal tv and after retuning this morning at 1am I have lost all channels says no signal have tried retuning three times. Please can you advise. I do not have a free view or any other kind of box. Just the standard TV set.
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bill3:26 AM
Retuned at 4am. All freeview channels returned. Signal reception strength from Ashford is weaker probably due to wrong antenna group. ie. not wide band aerial.
Waiting for new Ashford relay to go live adding the other multiplexes, perhaps later today. Only BBCA available at time of writing with second aerial installed in loft for past 2 months.
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Chris.SE7:14 AM
Nicola Tinkler:
You will simply have retuned too early. These changes take several hours and with main transmitters when changes involve all multiplexes, it can be around 6 a.m before the transmitter is back on air. Try again, hopefully Dover is now up and running correctly.
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bill5:00 PM
Ashford relay transmitter now offering 6 multiplexes on same channel numbers as Dover. Apart from some brief outages in the morning, reception has so far been uninterrupted this afternoon.
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Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Linda Bushell1:58 PM
Have lost Com 4 and Com 5 programmes on my tv, have tried retuning multiple times via tv and tv freeview + box over the last two days, to no avail. Also today I unplugged box and aerial etc., replugged box, retuned, replugged aerial and retuned, no good. Any advice please? Aerial is on the roof.
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StevensOnln13:20 PM
Linda Bushell: The Dover transmitter changed frequencies yesterday. If you contact the Freeview Advice Line (see link below) they can arrange for a replacement wideband aerial to be fitted free of charge if you don't have satellite or cable.
Important changes to Freeview | Freeview
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Chris.SE7:09 PM
Linda Bushell: & StevensOnln1:
I hope they arrange for a Group K, a wideband is not needed for Dover ;)
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