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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Tuesday, 27 March 2012
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Algernon Black4:25 PM
Hello,
During the last couple of weeks the Freeview signal from the Oxford transmitter has broken up and left me with a blank screen on most channels. It them comes and goes!
The press say it is the high pressure but I thought digital was supposed to be immune to that.
Is the low transmission power the problem?
Algy.
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012
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Simon3:16 PM
Tewkesbury
MENDIP 28th March: ARQ A mux is now on Ch56 and ARQ B mux is on ch52. All 6 muxes are the same level now. NB both ARQ A & ARQ B muxes are using FEC=3/4.
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Simon's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 2 April 2012
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Mike Miles8:52 PM
Will the COM4/5/6 channels ever be uprated above 12.5 Kwatts? I occasionally suffer signal degradation from the Oxford transmitter in Princes Risborough.
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Mike Miles: Yes, the restriction will be lifted on 18th April when they will go up to their full final power of 50kW each.
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Tuesday, 3 April 2012
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David Pinfold1:59 PM
Banbury
Mike Miles: The commercial muxes had to be restricted to 12.5KW because the analogue relays at High Wycombe & Hemel Hempstead used the same UHF chaneels (55, 59 & 62). When these switch with Crystal Palace then the power will be raised at Oxford.
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
Algernon Black: If the only services that are troublesome are on the commercial multiplexes then you will have to wait a few weeks - until 18 April 2012 - for them to go to full power.
If not, see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Sunday, 8 April 2012
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roger C7:48 PM
Basingstoke
I live in basingstoke and the ITV Hd chanel is giving the weather for kent sussex etc.
have we got to retune to get correct station
also we will bbc hd go reginal for local news
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KMJ,Derby8:36 PM
roger C: At present the local news is not available on BBC HD and in many areas the wrong region is received on ITV1 HD. No doubt eventually the local news will be in HD for all regions on BBC and ITV, but at the present time when the emphasis is on cost cutting there is no hurry to incur the additional expense of making local news in HD, especially as extra capacity on satellite would be necessary if the service was to be available on all platforms. Note that at present only London and Granada are available on Freesat, with Meridian Maidstone additionally being in HD on Sky/FSFS.
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Monday, 9 April 2012
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
As I have stated before there clearly is an issue between 9 and 10 pm every night. Let's hope the increased power promised for tomorrow solves it.
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