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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Monday, 8 October 2012
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Simon J Bolton1:21 PM
Aylesbury
Hi. Help. We seem to be having the same problem as MH was having at the end of September. We live in Aylesbury (HP19 postcode) and should pick up from the Beckley transmitter. Well, we did until last Thursday at 1645 when we lost all channels and no amount of First-Time Installation retuning will get them back. We have a Toshiba 22BL702 22" widescreen Full HD 1080p Backlit TV with Freeview (to give it its full title) which we bought on May 23rd 2012 and worked fine until last Thursday. Is the fact that we cannot pick up a signal likely to be with the TV tuner? Nothing has changed with the set-up so I'm a bit stumped. And I missed the Liverpol match last Thursday (not that it was the result I wanted...). Thanks for any help or advice you can give.
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Tuesday, 9 October 2012
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Paull8:24 AM
Hello, Simon J Bolton.
Can you try your TV on a different aerial? Can you try a different TV on your aerial?
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Simon J Bolton2:24 PM
Aylesbury
Hi Paull. Thanks, but we've tried both (sorry, should have mentioned that in my first posting) and still get nothing. We tried the (roof)aerial of our neighbour but the TV still does pick up any channels. We know the aerials (next door and ours) are ok and we know the transmitter is ok, so I think our next step is just to return the TV for repair/exchange. Mind you, the way Liverpool are playing at the moment there's no rush...
I'll post an update when I have one.
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jb384:55 PM
Simon J Bolton: Although it does appear as though your Toshiba TV's tuner has failed you should try a manual tune test, this done by going into the installation menu and selecting "manual search", then select "digital" by using the <-> (left/right arrows) followed by selecting "channel" and once again using <-> to obtain the channel required (Ch53 BBC) followed by pressing OK to start search.
If no results are obtained try the same test again but using Ch62(ITV3 etc) if still nothing is found then this would suggest that the tuner is defective.
By the way, all that's been said is on the assumption that no booster is being used on the aerial system, as if it is then it must be by-passed for the test just in case your signal is excessively high, as that can likewise result in nothing being received because of tuner blocking.
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012
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Simon J Bolton1:01 PM
Aylesbury
Thanks for that jb38. There is no booster connected, but here's a quick update: last night, having sat through 90 minutes of heavily pixellated picture and intermittent sound, an audible 'pop' was heard from the TV (similar to the sound heard from an earthing spark when connecting car battery booster cables) after which the picture and sound quality was excellent. We then threw caution to the wind and did another first-time installation and the tuner returned 171 channels, including some we didn't even know existed, like Argos TV and God TV.
Then, this morning, we had the BBC channels but no sound or picture on ITV channels ... then BBC News 24 on Ch 80 started playing up again...
Frankly, we're fed up with all this and we are going to return the TV. We KNOW there is nothing wrong with the transmitter, the aerial, the co-ax cable or anything else and the TV sometimes picks up channels and sometimes doesn't without us doing anything more than turning it on. It has also developed a high-pitched whisling sound on power-up which wasn't there last week.
What I find most frustrating is with all the technology available it still comes down to having to haul the TV to a neighbour's to try their aerial and scouring the interwebnet to try and find a website for information. I cannot find a phone number to call for help and to be honest if we rang a TV repair company they'd just say we need a new aerial at some ridiculously exorbitant price and we'd be expected to believe them. Bring back valves! At least you could se when they weren't working...
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jb389:13 PM
Simon J Bolton: Well, although fault symptoms such as you have described can in many cases indicate an intermittent connection fault on the aerial where the coax is joined into it, however when this coupled to the peculiar noise you hear on power up and something which is most likely coming from high frequency transformer in the power supply and usually when some partial short circuit is overloading it, then this does indicate that your set is defective.
If you only purchased it in May then obviously its still well inside the statutory guarantee period, and therefore I would not hesitate about returning it to wherever it was purchased and mentioning what you have in your posting regarding the noise, I would "not" advise mentioning anything about bad reception as that will immediately trigger suspicion about your installation being at fault.
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
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Paul8:21 AM
A professional aerial installer could test your aerial. They might charge for this service. Testing the TV at a neighbour's house is free.
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Monday, 19 November 2012
Me too. Just North of Banbury and I lost signal on Sunday afternoon; it's still not back.
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Tuesday, 20 November 2012
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Paul8:30 AM
Dave, are you sure you're using the Oxford transmitter ( BBC South Oxford, ITV Meridian )?
As far as I can tell, the Oxford transmitter is working OK.
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Well, I thought I was. I'll ask my neighbours, they're pointed in the same direction. Of course, I haven't actually checked to make sure no one has nicked the aerial. 8)
Hmm, I wonder if it is an aerial thing? Both my Media Centers (I don't have a FreeviewTV) get no signal. I'll check the loft box and the aerial in the morning.
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