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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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) mast?

Oxford transmitter - Oxford transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Oxford transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C41+ (634.2MHz)295mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South (Oxford), 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C44- (657.8MHz)295mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C47 (682.0MHz)295mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South (Oxford), 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C29 (538.0MHz)295mDTG-850,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C37- (601.8MHz)319mDTG-850,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C31 (554.0MHz)319mDTG-850,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

LOX
 H -10dB
C46 (674.0MHz)295mDTG-1210,000W
Channel icons
from 22nd December 2014: 7 That's Oxford,

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
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
regional news image
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-80s1984-971997-981998-20112011-132013-182013-1723 May 2018
VHFC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TW TW T
C2BBCtvwaves
C29SDN
C31com7com7
C37com8com8
C41BBCA
C44D3+4
C46_local
C47BBCB
C49tv_offC5wavesC5waves
C50tv_off SDNSDN
C51tv_offLOXLOX
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves+BBCA+BBCA+BBCA
C55tv_offArqBArqBArqBcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C59tv_off-ArqA-ArqA-ArqA
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves-D3+4-D3+4-D3+4
C62SDN
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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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

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Dec 2006Central Independent Television
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Oxford was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Monday, 21 March 2011
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David Pinfold
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6:47 PM
Banbury

It may be because the C68 multiplex is at the extreme end of the spectrum. Here in Banbury it's the only multiplex that disappears during bad weather. I would expect after switchover everyone will have rock solid reception of all channels without problems.

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Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Friday, 25 March 2011
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Jay Blanc
6:23 PM

An extra problem for people in Banbury, is that if you draw a line from us to Oxford, then keep going, you hit the Assendon transmitter. And that broadcasts BBC2 Analogue on C68. So 'good' atmospheric conditions result in Oxford's C68 getting drowned out by the analogue signal from Assendon. While 'bad' atmospheric conditions means we don't get the signal anyway. So we only get C68 when the conditions are 'just right'.

This *WILL* change after September, when Oxford stops using C68.

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Mike Dimmick
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6:41 PM
Reading

Jay Blanc: Assendon transmits at 8 watts, is vertically polarized, and its aerials point east. In no way can it possibly 'drown out' transmissions from Oxford.

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Mike Dimmick
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7:06 PM
Reading

It's also the wrong side of the Chilterns.

It's much more likely that in 'lift' conditions, you're picking up the Channel 4 signal from Midhurst (57 miles away, so over the horizon, but 100kW horizontal) bouncing off the atmosphere.

There are no other co-channel problems between Oxford and Midhurst.

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Saturday, 26 March 2011
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Colin
7:43 PM

Adey
Thursday 17 March 2011 3:55PMHi people....I live in Swindon (SN)post code and have been following the comments with ref to channel loss and various other problems.Would i be wrong in asuming that after september 28th everything will be hunkey dorey or is this the way DTV is gonna be in the future?.

Adey mate, I'm afraid IMO you would be wrong to assume everything will be Hunky Dory after the 28th. This is what DigTV is all about. Lovely when it's working and rubbish when not. It's like a light switch in a room. On or off, all or nothing. Unlike analogue which I liken to a dimmer switch. The signal may be reduced but you can still see it! Colin @ GL7

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N J Wilcock
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9:20 PM
Witney

Whilst it's true that digital signals, when degraded, produce pixellation and sound blocking which viewers find unnatural - whereas analogue suffers from snow and multiple imageing. This is why DAB sounds so bad when the signal is weak - weird bubbling mud sounds instead of the background hiss which humans find less intrusive. But people have become so accustomed to high quality TV now, that even the slightest digital dropout becomes intensly annoying. But digital receivers have built-in error-correction systems which attempt to recover lost transmission segments and usually do so very successfully until they cannot cope as the signal drops off the 'digital cliff'.

However, Oxford Beckley's performance should improve massively with the power increase and frequency changes scheduled for September 2011.

Analogue signals in East Witney are pretty poor; however, I've been very impressed with the robustness of the digital signal, if less so with the unnatural artefacts that are a characteristic of many digital broadcasts. Hence the need for 'HD'; non-HD TV could have been broadcast in 'DVD quality', but commercial greed has pushed for quantity, not quality and we have a plethora of rather indifferent channels as the result...

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Tuesday, 29 March 2011
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mick h
10:04 AM
Oxford

will my lack of itv1 ch4 ch5 on freeview put itself right after switchover. No technical jargon just yes or no

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Mike Dimmick
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4:13 PM
Reading

Mick H: I can't see any reason why you should not get those channels reliably right now. It's most likely that you have too much signal rather than too little, and this means it will probably get worse after switchover, not better.

You should remove any amplifiers that you have, and try adding an attenuator.

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Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Brennig Jones
6:16 PM

Is there anyone else in the OX28 area suffering awful digital reception? Periodically, on some channels - ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, E4, C4, to name the very worst - the sound deteriorates to untranslatable, and the picture disintegrates and pixelates. This has been going on for absolutely months and we're at the end of our tether with these issues. Our full postcode is OX28 5JJ, if that helps. We've checked everything, retuned everything, in fact the only thing we haven't done is set fire to the TV and tuner.

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