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, 16 March 2012
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Robert8:25 AM
Once again for the last week we have been losing channels on the IYV and channel 5 type.
This has almost like scheduling from 9pm until about 10/10.30.
Retuning gives me a variety of different frequencies, as many as 8 and as few as 3. As someone else said it's about time the UK Authorities came clean.
I know that most of the channels affected are running at reduced power so lets hope that the promised resolution in April finally works.
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PS. Why do they never give an actual date for the engineering work, is this week from today yesterday etc and when will it actually finish.
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Monday, 19 March 2012
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Paul8:19 AM
Eliie Yeomans, do you know whether your mother uses the Oxford ( BBC South/Oxford, ITV Meridian ) or the Sandy Heath ( BBC East, ITV Anglia ) transmiiter. I could presume that, as you are asking on this web page, she uses Oxford. Would this be a correct presumption?
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Thursday, 22 March 2012
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Jean9:42 AM
Cheltenham
we have a sony digital DVD recorder sony bravia tv.every day when I switch on the DVD a notice comes up, a new channel has been found.the screen on the DVD shows D--- so I have to retune before I can go onto the guide to record a program. we have a new roof top aerial.
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Jean4:25 PM
Cheltenham
DO you know why my tv is saying it has found another channel every day. I cannot use my DVD until I re-tune. we are on the Oxford transmitter. we have a new roof top aerial
digital tv & DVD player/recorder.
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Jean: Can you give the model number of the DVD recorder that is causing the problem?
Perhaps the issue is caused by it finding too many channels than it can hold in the memory, which causes it to "forget" some and therefore regard them as "new" when it is turned on. It is quite possible that some of these channels that are clogging up the memory are ones from another transmitter (Hannington, Mendip) and not Oxford. Are there channels stored in the 800s and if so, how high do they go (what is the highest)?
There may be an option in the menu to turn of notifications of new services if you cannot cure the problem another way.
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Jean7:22 PM
Cheltenham
hi Dave the model no of DVD is RDR-HXD870 with 160GB Hard Drive-with Freeview. The channels go up to 939. a lot of them are duplicated and they say NO EVENT information next to the duplicated ones
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Monday, 26 March 2012
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Charmian Martin1:52 PM
Faringdon
Hi, anyone out there. I note comments that the power will increase on the Oxford COMs on 18 April. Does that mean that I will need to retune my TV after that or will it just steady things down a bit? My reception is generally very good on all channels, but high pressure is causing break up on some channels at the moment - like everyone else.
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Charmian Martin: The COMs will remain on the same channels and they are all in 8k mode now, so you shouldn't need to do anything.
The Forward Error Correction for SDN (ITV3 etc) will change on 18th April, but receivers usually don't require retuning when that happens, so you will probably have to do nothing.
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012
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