Full Freeview on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 410,000 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 Oxford (Oxfordshire, 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Oxford 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Oxford transmitter?
BBC South (Oxford) Today 0.4m homes 1.6%
from Oxford OX2 7DW, 6km west-southwest (258°)
to BBC South (Oxford) region - 6 masts.
BBC South (Oxford) Today shares 50% content with Southampton service
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 102km south (182°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford
How will the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 23 May 2018 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | ||
| C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C46 | _local | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | LOX | LOX | |||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCA | +BBCA | +BBCA | |||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | com7tv_off | |||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | -ArqA | -ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 14 Sep 11 and 28 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-11dB) 40kW | |
| com8 | (-14.7dB) 17.1kW | |
| com7 | (-14.8dB) 16.4kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, LOX | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-18dB) 8kW | |
| Mux A*, Mux B* | (-19.2dB) 6kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Oxford transmitter area
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Friday, 23 September 2011
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Pete12:54 PM
Droitwich
Hi,
Is anyone else confused in the Droitwich area coming off the Bromsgrove transmitter?
DSO started April and footnotes suggest temp channels for Arquiva A & B top operate on 29, 33 and 34 until September finish - which presumable meant after Sutton Coldfield completed last week.
5 tv's and 3 pc tuners all suggest we're still getting the channels on 29, 33 and 34 in addition to the main 23 and 26.
Little note in Digital UK Guide page 13 says another retune date of Sep 28th for the Bromsgrove TX??
Cheers,
Pete
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Ralph Jolly3:43 PM
Didcot
I am at a total loss to see what all the trouble regarding the Oxford transmitter is all about. I re-tuned last week to recover BBC channels and back they came. In the 7 years I have been living in Oxfordshire I have had no trouble at all, never lost a channel and never had any break-up. I use a Wideband antenna with CT100 coax straight into my Panasonic.
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Spartan8:36 PM
Ralph, you're one of the lucky ones living in a spot where the signals from Beckley are strong and not affected by trees, buildings and hills between your aerial and the transmitter. Many of us live in lower lying areas where the received signal strength and quality is poor and very variable. Lucky old you...
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Saturday, 24 September 2011
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Mr Angry (still)10:21 AM
Firstly, don't panic.
I came up with a plan when my old man told me he EVENTUALLY retuned his box and got the channels back. I took my box round his house and retuned it there, successfully, which proves the box is fine. I plugged it back in at home last night and got all the channels back, not for long as the signal was too weak, but it proves my equipment is not the problem.
My folks had an extension and someone round who is a whizz with PCs, telephones and TVs. He said don't do anything until 28th. The digital people responded for a second time, they mirrored his view and mine by saying it should be fine after 28th WHEN THE SIGNAL IS STRONGER which reinforces my view originally that it is THEIR signal strength and not a problem with my equipment. They advise not to get in an engineer but to be patient.
What really makes me angry is the amount of ads you see on TV for the past year, poncy ads telling you what you need to do, but not reassuring people when they turn on their TVs and can't get their channels back. I am unimpressed with the way this has all been done and not remotely handled fully. We get junk through the letterbox every day, they could have done something similar. Oh but we're only licence payers, not very important and a lot of us will just buy new equipment while they provide an inadequate service - not that what's on the channels is worth watching anyway.
If the signal is too weak come 28th then people should bombard them with complaints, why should we all pay to boost our reception when they are paid to provide TV and therefore should boost their signal. Mobile phone masts appear here, there and everywhere, why shouldn't they provide signals at full strength where needed?!?
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Kathleen11:12 AM
Didcot
Well said Mr Angry, I just hope that when we retune again on the 28th all channels will be back with us.
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mst11:41 AM
Oxford
Things will change next week due to Mux frequency/channels shifting - but the COM muxes have a planned "power-up" event next year
18 Apr 12
which surely means that some people will have to wait till then...
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Sunday, 25 September 2011
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Steve Hopkins6:30 AM
Digital Aerial pointing at Oxford & ITV1/ITV2/Channel4 reception dreadful. Pixulating & dropping completely saying selected channel not tuned on Sony digital TV, no matter how many times we retune our TV. Whoever has mismanged this needs to be taken to task cause it's a complete joke.
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mst11:41 AM
Oxford
As per my reply to same post in other thread - nothings been done to that Mux yet.
Sure your Sony has latest firmware and is not confused by coming across an 8k mode mux while scanning before getting to C68?
There will be upset Sony idtv users next week when they find there TVs can't received analogue or digital tv without an extra box...
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