Dover TV aerial repairs
Living a mile or two from a main transmitter should mean perfect TV, but Dover’s hills say otherwise. We repair aerials across the town and set each one up for the signal its street can actually see.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Dover most days.
From £99repairs in CT16
The faults we fix most in Dover
In the deep valleys of Tower Hamlets, Maxton and Buckland, the hills rise steeply on both sides, and some houses have no line of sight to the main mast above the castle. Older aerials in those streets are often aimed at a relay instead, and when someone replaces them with an aerial pointed at the big mast the picture gets worse, not better. We check which works for your road before fitting anything.
Up at Whitfield and on the River side, the problem flips. The signal can be so strong that an old amplifier overloads and scrambles the picture. The fix here is often to take something out of the system rather than add to it, which is cheaper and more reliable.
Every kind of aerial repair in Dover
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Dover repairs are finished on the first visit. You get the price before we start.
Realigning a turned aerial
Wind and slipped clamps turn aerials off the transmitter. We re-aim on a meter and fit new clamps.
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New cable and connectors
Cracked coax and corroded plugs replaced with double-screened cable and sealed compression fittings.
Amplifiers and splitters
Failed, overloaded or unpowered loft amplifiers tested, adjusted or replaced so every room works.
Storm damage
Fallen, bent or hanging aerials made safe, then refitted on a stronger pole, with photos for your insurer.
A new aerial when it’s beyond saving
If the aerial itself has failed, we fit a new one aimed at the right transmitter and test every channel.
Satellite dish faults
No satellite signal on Sky or Freesat? See our Dover satellite page.
Check the symptoms in Dover
Choose what your screen is doing. The panel shows the usual culprit and lights up the part of the house where it normally is.
Every channel says “No signal”
- Usual cause
- Usually a connector that has worked loose behind the TV or at the aerial, a loft amplifier that has died, or an aerial knocked off its bearing by the wind.
- What we do
- We check the signal at three points, the TV socket, the loft and the mast, so we replace only the part that has gone.
Pixelating or freezing when it’s wet or windy
- Usual cause
- Rainwater getting into tired coax, connectors eaten by salt air on the coast, or a mast clamp that has slipped so the aerial rocks.
- What we do
- New double-screened cable, sealed compression fittings and the clamps done up properly.
A handful of channels have vanished
- Usual cause
- An aerial made before the frequency changes, one pointing at the wrong mast for your street, or 4G and 5G from a nearby phone mast swamping the amplifier.
- What we do
- A meter reading on each multiplex tells us which. Then it is a realign, a filter or a modern wideband aerial.
Freesat or Sky can’t find the satellite
- Usual cause
- A dish nudged off target by a gale or a ladder, a failed LNB (the part on the arm), or a waterlogged cable.
- What we do
- We peak the dish on a meter, then swap the LNB or the cable if they have failed.
One room has a picture, another doesn’t
- Usual cause
- A loose wall plate, a dead output on the splitter or amplifier, or damage somewhere along that room’s cable.
- What we do
- We follow that cable from the room back to the loft and repair the fault we find.
Seeing something different? Send us a picture of the TV and an engineer will have a look.
Before you book a repair in Dover
Local answers for Dover. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Can the signal be too strong in Dover?
Yes. Near the main mast, a high-gain aerial with an amplifier can overload your TV’s tuner, causing break-up on some channels. We measure the levels and fit an attenuator, or remove the amplifier, to bring them into range.
Why did my picture go bad after a new aerial was fitted in Dover?
It was probably aimed at the wrong transmitter for your street. In the valleys, a nearby relay often gives a cleaner picture than the main mast. We re-aim it and test both.
Do you repair aerials in Aycliffe and the Western Heights?
Yes. We cover every part of Dover, including Aycliffe, the Western Heights, Elms Vale and Temple Ewell.
Quicker with a picture
Snap the aerial or dish from the garden, or the error on the TV, and WhatsApp it to us with your postcode. An engineer looks at it and replies with the likely fix and a price.
WhatsApp a photoRepairs in towns next to Dover
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Dover, see the Dover area page or our Dover satellite page.
Talk to a Canterbury engineer
Ring the office, or WhatsApp us a picture of the roof, the dish or whatever your TV is showing. Most of the time we can say what the fault is and give you a price there and then.
WhatsApp us- Our base
- Canterbury, since 2000
- Open
- Monday to Saturday, 8am to 7pm
- Where
- Every part of Kent: Thanet, the coast, Medway, Maidstone, Ashford and the Weald
- Cost
- Repairs from £99. Fixed quotes for everything else