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 not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? 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)
Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview HD channels?
The Dover (Kent, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? 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, 6 May 2011
OK, OK I know all about the inversion effect etc. but the reception in Broadstairs/Pam Bay Area has now got silly on freeview (or in my case NOview) just done a rescan and found 36 Channels as far as I can tell all DUTCH! I know our local MP is meant to be helping but it has now got silly, completely beyond belief, what do we pay our TV licence for, can we get a refund for the days we have no coverage! Can we push for the "Go Live" date to be brought forward, I think not but if the powers that be DO look at this Blog/Site can they think of, as a temporary measure at least, putting a digital relay on the Margate mast and letting us have at least the main Channels (BBC, ITV, CH4 (and 4 offshoots) and Five with 5* and 5USA as there are more OFF days that working days now!
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Stuart1:12 PM
Broadstairs
Nick I have no answer for you save to suggest you bend the ear of our local MPs to see if we can get something done to improve it. It is unacceptable to say as Malcolm has done that even after switchover we are unlikely to see significantly improved reception. The analogue service here has been good and in my view the digital one should be made to be the same. Why on earth should I have to invest in one of those ugly satellite dishes just because the powers that be cant get it right.
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Stuart: Please don't waste your MPs time. The Dover transmitter will have a full power digital service in 2012, as part of the digital switchover. Your MP can do nothing to change this.
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Mike Dimmick6:02 PM
Nick Lloyd, Stuart: Fundamentally, you're out of coverage and as far as the broadcasters are concerned, always have been. You will be covered by the Margate relay after switchover.
The terrain blocks clear line-of-sight to the Dover transmitter and always has done - this is why the Margate transmitter exists at all. You're relying on fringe reception which is more likely to be affected by the ongoing switchover programme.
Until switchover, digital takes a major back seat to analogue performance. Some changes to interference levels were inevitable as the switchover programme proceeds, both here and abroad.
The broadcasters are only trying to match the predicted digital coverage to predicted analogue coverage. If the analogue coverage was below the threshold, they are not required to provide a digital service from that transmitter at that location. The commercial muxes are not even required to match that level of coverage.
Margate is fed off-air from Dover for analogue signals and cannot currently transmit digital services, because they just don't reach from Dover to Margate, at least not reliably enough to rebroadcast. Feeding relay transmitters from a leased digital communications line is much more expensive and only done where off-air relay is not possible. It's also very unlikely that there are any spare frequencies that could be used for any interim service.
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Monday, 13 June 2011
DOVER transmitter - Over the next week Dover main transmitter: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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DOVER transmitter - Over the next week Dover main transmitter: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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Thursday, 30 June 2011
DOVER transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Weak Signal from 15:03 today [BBC]
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DOVER transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Weak Signal from 15:03 today [BBC]
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DOVER transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Weak Signal from 15:03 today to 16:03 today [BBC]
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DOVER transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Weak Signal from 15:03 today to 16:03 today [BBC]
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