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 |
Local transmitter maps
Oxford Freeview Oxford DAB Oxford TV region BBC South (Oxford) Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Oxford transmitter area
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Sunday, 11 February 2024
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Chris.SE3:22 PM
Ben:
Forgot to mention to take NO notice of the "Here's how to fix it" link on the channel list page, it's BAD advice as it takes no notice of possible faults anywhere (including your system) or Engineering (and their "auto" check isn't always correct), the transmitter is still listed for Planned Engineering as per the post just before your first.
Clearing old tuning and doing a manual tune is always the best method of ensuring you are correctly tuned.
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Ben8:27 PM
Chris.SE:
Thank you! I tried the manual tuning and the maximum channels that managed to upload was 25. Therefore, the manual tuning didn't solve it unfortunately.
I've reset the tv and completed auto tune and now is back to 101 channels, but as per initial post, main channels sync has the BBCs, ITVs, Ch4/5 don't work at all, only the digital channels.
Will call the flat management to see what the resolution is. As I don't think it's the TV.
Any other suggestions are welcomed. But may have to wait for this work to be done maybe.
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Chris.SE11:11 PM
Ben:
They are all "digital" channels! I assume you mean it's the HD channels that don't work.
If you only managed to load 25 channels with manual tune, it sounds a bit like you may have only tuned one multiplex. There's no good reason that an automatic tune would have found more TV channels than a manual tune of all the UHF channels. Actually it's normally the reverse. In cases where (for whatever reason, fault etc) where there may be weaker signals, the automatic tune cna miss then and a manual tune will find them.
Can you tell me which 25 channels it loaded, when you tried manual tune?
It's sounding like there could be some very intermittent connection here. Works (badly maybe) one minute, then not the next.
Did you try swapping/changing that flylead/patch lead from the wall plate to the TV?
Is there more than one socket on the wall-plate? If so are they labelled?
Without clearing your now current tuning, try adding a manual tune to UHF channel 47. This is the HD multiplex carrying the HD channels.
Select Home/Menu button. Scroll to Settings. Select Installation or Tuning. (what it shows is model dependant). Then Select "Manual Channel scan". Follow the menu and enter UHF channel 47 when prompted for the channel number.
Can you give the Strength and Quality/error figures for the TV channels I suggested before -
eg. 1, 3, 101, 16, 11, 12, and 7
Without some of this information we are clutching at straws here.
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Thursday, 18 April 2024
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jill1:44 PM
Bicester
Transmitter engineering: Aerial in loft. have been unable to get channel 85 since w/c 8th April. when a retune was done the channel dissapeared altopgether.
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Tuesday, 4 June 2024
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Jill F3nemore2:05 PM
Transmitter engineering: you have been working on this since April when are you going to finish.. I didn't have any problems before now I either loose channels or they are so distorted you cannot watch or record them. Having just renewed my tv licence I am not happy with service I am receiving. Two months of disruption is not acceptable.. when will my reception return to normal.
Regards Jill
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StevensOnln15:14 PM
Jill F3nemore: This is an independent technical help website, nobody here has anything to do with any engineering work. Unfortunately Arqiva (the company who operate the transmitter) don't usually give any details of what works they are carrying out or when they are due to be completed.
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Jill Fenemore5:20 PM
StevensOnln1: sorry to have bothered you .I posted here before and someone called Chris was very helpful. I will just have to contact Freeview see if they can help.
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StevensOnln17:41 PM
Jill Fenemore: Chris is another volunteer contributor. The transmitter engineering post you replied to comes from an automated feed provided by BBC Engineering. The Freeview helpline don't have access to any detailed engineering information, they're just a call centre who read from a script.
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Monday, 21 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
10:47 AM
10:47 AM
Oxford transmitter - Oxford transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 21/10/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 28 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Oxford transmitter - Oxford transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 28/10/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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