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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chris4:54 PM
Didcot
are there problems with certian makes of tvs as our son has a panasonic tv no problems, we have 2 technika tvs have problems with both our neighbour has same make same problems fine before switch over now will only work with booster
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Mike Dimmick5:17 PM
David: There is no mention of DVB-T2 and only the Freeview logo is shown, not Freeview HD. I'm sorry, it looks like it isn't compatible. You would need an additional Freeview HD box, but it's unlikely you'd be able to record from it.
I'd get in touch with them, see if you can return it.
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Howie B5:44 PM
Thanks for clarifying what's on channels 50,51 etc locally, Brian. I guess if I want to see the lovely Gerry Peers (BBC Oxford) and Jo Kent, Lexi and Reham (South Today) I'll have to settle for seeing them in SD at 576i only.
Freeview HD is so amazing I'm reluctant to switch over. I hope everyone is happy with the new power levels in these parts. It's been a long wait for many of you. Howie "B"
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mst5:59 PM
@Chris - some Tesco Technika boxes have Vestel internals which don't handle the "negative offsets" well, is it the muxes with C59- and C60- that are a problem? There were firmware upgrades for this issue for some boxes a while ago.
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mst6:06 PM
I'm sure there's a write up on this site but this doc refers to the Vestel n egative offset issue
http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf
but doesn't say what you can do if upgrade missed!
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I have to say in fairness after retuning all our sets (first install) they are all working fine with strong signals.
One odd thing though we are still showing between 1 and 9 analogue signals on each TV, although no idea what they are.
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Spartan8:03 PM
Switching on the TV this evening at 19:00 and retuning the Freeview box produced a big fat ZERO, no stations, nada. Reset to manufacturer's defaults, but still nothing from Beckley, which is my local transmitter. Gave up and switched aerials to Hannington and watched analogue for half an hour. Despite generally getting a weaker signal from Hannington I managed to successfully reset the Freeview box to receive digital signals. Said it found 182 stations! Some while later I switched aerials back and tried Beckley again. Found it this time but with only 102 stations. What is going on, and why does Hannington offer more stations?
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Dawn8:18 PM
Buckingham
Have done retune on Toshiba RD-XV48DTKB today. I received my satellite programmes through this machine...until retune was done. I am now unable to receive any satellite programmes. I have done retune 3 times & still nothing. I appear to have everything else except still receiving Look East as local news channel therefore signal is still coming from Sandy not Oxford. I should say I have an old TV & receive my digital channels through the Toshiba. Also Sky box is about 15 years old. I also have a Humax but don't get me started on that heap of junk. Please can anyone help.
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Steve Hopkins8:46 PM
Buckingham
Sony Bravia from Buckingham with aerial pointing at Oxford can't pick up Channel 60 everything else Ok. So what now?
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