Full Freeview on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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.
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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.
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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Wednesday, 28 September 2011
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JD8:44 AM
Wantage
Just to update : all channels back this morning.So assume it was something to do with the switchover.
Really annoying to loose most of the channels last night mid-programme. Was there any warning transmission might be off-line from midnight or is it like last time - no information to customers at all?
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JD: Yes, as per the plan, the transmitter was off air from midnight to 6am. As per my posting above, as per Oxford sees the end of analogue TV as high power digital starts | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Stuart9:11 AM
Swindon
Just retuned to the new MUXs after switchover, but I cannot tune to C57, which is the HD channel. I know I need an HD tuner to get the HD channels, but do I need an HD tuner to even find the channel? I was about to buy one but clearly do not want to if I can't receive the signal.
I have a roof aerial and digital reception is fine otherwise
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Stuart: Yes, the DVB-T2 service is invisible to DVB-T equipment.
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Howie B9:33 AM
My Sony bravia quietly retuned itself this morning - quite how or why I don't know but all is well touch wood, including the four HD channels 50,51,52,54. Was Freeview HD worth waiting for? Definitely! Couple of minor quibbles. No red button on 50 or 51 - is that a fault? No local optouts on 50, just a caption card. Also ch1 showed BBC London not South Today. Switching problem?
Howie B at OX9 3JE; freeview always trouble free even in ondigital era. Goodbye analogue, you did us pround - I saw the first clour tx's from Winter Hill way back in 69. We've come a long way since then.
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Tricia9:41 AM
Oxford
I live in Central Oxford and have retuned my TV this mornng 28/9 and have lost EVERY channel! I have no channels whatsoever now?
Before the switchover I couldn't get 3,4 and 5 but could get some digital channels. Then when we first switched I lost 1 and 2 but still got some digital channels and now nothing.
Please can someone help me?
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mst9:44 AM
Oxford
Turning off the ITV mix on C68 revealed some of its former problems - my box still saw 10-20% noise signal on that channel, not sure what maybe Midhurst on wrong polarization?
I have a bit of a problem with the new received signal strengths - the BBC A/PSB1 mux on C53+ has a signal strength on my Toppy almost double any other mux. If I use a variable attenuator to get it off 100% nothing else is watchable, and with the smallest attenuator I have 3dB (donated by NTL) I start to lose quality on PSB2 (ITV etc) on C60.
Anyone else see this, maybe its my aerial - originally aligned for best quality on weakest Analogue channel or C68, so maybe misaligned to avoid interference!
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David10:02 AM
Towcester
I have a roof mounted Aerial , with a masthead amp ,new cable one feed to a HD tv , at NN12 8HQ. No HD channels on CH 57.
Kind Regards
David
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