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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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
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Matt Crowther11:30 PM
Aylesbury
Well before the power boost I had messed up ITV4/Yesterday/Film4 and getting home found Film4 absent from my listings so re-scanned. Film4's a bit skippy still but not as bad as before so I guess it'll be alright from now on, he says.
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Matt's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 19 April 2012
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Steve P10:50 AM
... UK digital TV reception predictor
Robert - relays are to fill in for places where local geography gets in the way of the main transmitter's signal. So even within a postcode which is best may vary from house to house.
See link for much info!
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Stephen8:17 PM
Anybody having problems with C62 on the Oxford Transmitter. We're receiving all the other channels with at least 81% strength and 100% quality, but nothing on 62, which is showing as "no or bad signal". I've tried an automatic search and a manual one with no success. We are getting the Programme Guide, which I thought was transmitted on the same channel!
Thanks in advance
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N J Wilcock9:08 PM
Witney
Here in east Witney, even with a pretty ancient UHF antenna system, I'm seeing 'Very Good' for all Oxford multiplexes - including Ch62.
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Friday, 20 April 2012
As far as Channel 62 is concerned no idea what is on it but I am still having trouble with channel 30 mainly which is one the the '5' channels. Rather than the no signal message I get the no aerial symbol appear, which os course can't be right and all the other channels are there.
Generally now most channels appear stable.
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Steve P10:28 AM
As far as Channel 62 is concerned no idea what is on it
It tells you above.
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Stephen9:05 PM
I'm in the primary receiving area for the Oxford transmitter so I'm not sure what is going on, but having done a factory reset on my box and re-scan I've found all of the channels that should be on channel 62 but on channel 41.
We're not close enough to any other transmitter to pick up a viewable signal so not sure I'm not sure why it's working on a different channel, especially as others are still wokring on 62, but we've got QVC back, oh joy :)
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Stephen: Channel 41 is SDN from Hannington.
It is on exactly the same bearing as Oxford (183 degrees), Oxford being 28km and Hannington 82km!
As you're tuning in Oxford, when you run the automatic tuning scan, have the aerial unplugged up until 60% as all of Oxford's channels are above this. This should also prevent the receiver picking up pretty much all other channels in your area.
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Sunday, 22 April 2012
Dave L could this be the same issue for me, it does seem rather odd though that we can predict that we lose channel 62 as regular as clockwork about 9.15. I retune and it comes back, last night though it took two re-tunes.
You say all the Oxford channels are 60% in yet I get at least 21 about 30% in.
We are SN3 4ST
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Stephen P11:18 AM
Robert - The percentages are not standardised across sets, and once you are well below 100 can vary greatly from place to place.
Something at 9:15 daily suggests interference on a timeswitch. Streetlights perhaps.
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