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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Friday, 3 February 2012
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Robert7:10 PM
Swindon
Brian I appreciate that may be the case but we are still experiencing random drop out of 'coms', mainly itv3,5,31,30. A complete clean tune seems to bring them back, it is not restricted to one aerial but happens on all 4.
A pain to retune 11 televisions.
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Robert's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Robert: The COMs from Oxford are on low power until 18th April.
Once it has been established that they are tuned correctly, then don't retune as nothing positive can come from it.
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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Paul7:54 PM
Aylesbury
HP18 0TQ
I have just acquired a Polaroid TLU-01941CU LCD TV for the above postcode. It was working fine in Sussex (pre digital changeover) on all channels.
I have unplugged the aerial connection from another TV (working perfectly on all channels) and connected it to the Polaroid TV. No matter how many times I perform full autoscans, factory resets, etc., it stubbornly refuses to tune any ITV channel, Channel 4, Channel 5, etc. (in fact any channels on Muxes 2 and A I believe).
I have repeated the process using a second aerial (that operates all channels on another TV perfectly) with the same disappointing results.
As the two separate aerials work perfectly well with the two other TVs (and two PVRs), I suspect that the Polaroid TV tuner is at fault but would appreciate your comments before I consign it to the skip.
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Paul: Try manually tuning to channel 60 for ITV1, ITV2, C4, C5 etc (if there is a manual tuning option).
At 10 miles from a high power transmitter, it could be that the signal level is on the high side and it is that which is causing it not to pick up these channels.
See this page:
Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Get a variable attenuator for £3 or £4 off eBay.
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Thursday, 16 February 2012
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Andrew Wilkins3:11 PM
You show that the ITV1 Oxford HD freeview broadcasts the Meridian programming from Southampton. This is not the case. It broadcasts ITV Central from, Birmingham. Adverts often come from Midlands traders with no connection to the Oxford area and the local news at around 10.30 pm is the Midlands area news. Mind you, the Meridian news on ITV standard chanel is mostly south coast news and of little more interest to Oxford area viewers than the HD Midland news.
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Friday, 24 February 2012
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Jasper Llama10:37 AM
Are there any plans to boost signal from ArqA? My reception of E4+1 and Sky News is dreadful. Everything else comes in fine.
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Jasper Llama: The power of the commercial channels from Oxford will increase on 18th April.
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Stan Herbert3:36 PM
My aerial points toward the Oxford transmitter from OX10, and I was happily retuning as requested when we switched over last September. However, a couple of weeks ago I was prompted to retune again by a pop-up on the screen. I can't remember exact dates but this seemed to coincide with the Hannington switchover.
I now get two versions of lots of channels, eg: BBC1 South & BBC1 Oxford. But they are fairly intermittent. Should I remove the masthead amp on the loft mounted aerial?
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jb384:50 PM
Stan Herbert: I wouldn't just yet anyway, but what you should do is scrub everything already stored by taking the aerial out and carrying out a re-tune without it, then after this has been done keep the aerial plug in your hand and select to carry out another re-tune observing the progress bar as soon as it starts, then as soon as you see Ch47 being passed "immediately" reinsert the aerial plug again and that will store only Oxfords channels.
If though your TV's tuner doesn't have this type of facility, then after scrubbing everything stored you will need to manually tune in each of Oxfords muxes one at a time, the channels involved being: 53 - 60 - 57(HD) - 62 - 59 - 55.
If after having completed the scan you find that BBC and ITV has developed glitches in various ways then remove the amplifier, as it will likely be a signal overloading that is causing the problem.
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Stan Herbert10:01 PM
jb38: Thank you for your help - I've just unsuccessfully tried this, but that is due to the limitations of Windows Media Center which receives our TV signal. It doesn't give frequencies and doesn't allow manual tuning. Weirdly it doesn't even seem to work through the frequencies in a logical order as it finds two BBC1's within the first 1% of searching, when the two transmitters seem to broadcast these channels on very different frequencies. Maybe I'll try without the amp and see what we get then!
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