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 15/04/2024 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
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012
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Nick7:39 PM
Woodbridge
All fine north of Felixtowe, well out of range.
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Friday, 27 July 2012
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John McConnell12:58 PM
Can anyone explain why during the last week there have been many issues affecting reception of BBC1/2 (and occasionally other channels). Complete loss of signal!
On both TV(internal) and Digibox(external) setups.
I am in the Margate area (using Freesat thankfully) but many of the elderly tenants in this community are now using the governement provided digibox on their TV.
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John McConnell: The terrestrial Freeview service could be being affected by co-channel interference. See the inversion effect. This does not affect satellite services.
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David2:28 PM
Sandwich
i lost the signal on SDN yesterday but i put this down to the hot wether we have been get in kent. only thing is this did not hit the other com muxes or BBC A or D3&3 muxes.
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Monday, 30 July 2012
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Jim2:36 PM
Herne Bay
Here in Herne Bay we lost mux BBCa on Ch50 for a while at the end of last week. I'm sure it was the strange weather conditions - we had a small FM RSL radio station in the area last week, Red Sands Radio, and they commented on reception reports from far and wide during the same period. Normally CH50 is the strongest here. Before switch over a strong analogue signal bouncing in from elsewhere would often swamp our digital mux on the same channel - I was a bit surprised to loose a powerful mux AFTER switch over!
Strangely, on one TV only, I have had problems with the mux on CH59 since switch over. After the problems last week that mux is now coming in fine! Are the engineers still tinkering - or will it go again? Time will tell.
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KMJ,Derby5:42 PM
Jim: I have just had a look at the William Hepburn's tropospheric ducting forecast for last Friday and there was (for about 6am)a fair chance of ducting in the SE of England, stretching into East Anglia and the North of France. Although the digital signal on C50 is four times that which would normally be used to match the former analogue coverage, the analogue service did not have to contend with C50 being in use at Tacolneston, the nearest English high power transmitter at that time would have been Sutton Coldfield.
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Ian Fletcher7:43 PM
Dover
I live at West Hougham, CT15 7AZ, (under the mast) and am getting the warning, after I have viewed channel 50 for half an hour or so, and the screen going all red with shadow figures moving around, that this channel is not available in my area and I should tune to channel 101/1. But i have just watched it. What is going on?
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jb388:22 PM
Ian Fletcher: What model of TV or box are you seeing this indication on, and if you take the aerial out and use a short piece of wire (about 12") in the socket do you still see this indication, or do you maybe even receive a picture without the aerial?
This odd indication of an obviously false nature "might" be due to signal data corruption in your tuner due to it receiving an excessively high level of signal because of your relatively close proximity to the transmitter.
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Tuesday, 31 July 2012
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jb387:43 AM
Ian Fletcher: Just to add that what's been said is based on the peculiar effect that you witnessed happening having occurred on more than one occasion, otherwise disregard as it could be purely a glitch caused by work going on at the station.
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Jim10:47 AM
Herne Bay
KMJ,Derby, Thank you - I think you have given me an answer. Here in Herne Bay I have previously got a good analogue signal from Sudbury and Crystal Palace as well as my main transmitter at Dover. Tacolneston only came in occasionally with the weather!
Looking at the channels now used at Tacolneston I can see that as well as CH50 which caused me problems last week, it now also uses CH55 and CH59 (all three channels also in use at Dover).The muxes on CH55 and CH59 have been poorer here after switch over than when on the former low power channels. I guess I'm getting some signal from Tacolneston on the back end of my aerial. I didn't think digital signals would interfere with each other, but 55 & 59 are low power from Dover and very high from Tacolneston so maybe that is my problem?
Thank goodness I also have Sky and Freesat!!
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