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, 18 December 2012
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Paul7:34 AM
Ethan, thanks for the feedback.
I think there is something wrong at your end.
If there was a transmitter problem since 1st December, other viewers would have noticed it.
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Looking at the link at the top of the page "click to recheck" - BBC - Reception problems - shows no problems known about.
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Thursday, 20 December 2012
Simon
2:29 PM
2:29 PM
Paul
Still no channels. Think the aerial might be broke!!
Need to investigate bypassing the the booster.
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Friday, 21 December 2012
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Keith Smith9:28 PM
Banbury
Hi All
Have been round to my folks house OX25 postcode and they cannot get the BBC HD channels (101) on their new TV. They appear to be pointing at the Basingstoke Transmitter, [I assume this as BBC1 was on C45]. Is it likely the distance causing the problem? If so is it worth tweaking the aerial to point at Oxford. (I think mine is the same but I have Sky so I don't worry about it).
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Keith's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby9:38 PM
Keith Smith: What is the make/model of the TV in question? Does it have a DVB-T2 tuner built in, or is it simply marked "HD ready"? Generally speaking if reception of SD BBC1 is OK the HD transmissions will be receivable from the same transmitter, subject to the TV having a suitable tuner.
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Keith Smith9:52 PM
Banbury
KMJ Thanks for the reply
I will need to look it up as I am back home Sandstrog or some such.
I am just having a look at my Pioneer but I don't have any BBC channels but I am even further North than my folks.
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Keith's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 23 December 2012
OK I am in need of some serious advise.
The story goes
On Monday we had signal. At around 9.45pm the picture went pixelated and then no signal. We have bypassed the booster box by plugging a tv straight into the aerial. Still nothing. Yesterday we plugged a signal strength meter straight into the aerial. Reading 50 (the lowest) still no channels. We have bought a new aerial and set it up in the loft all the same readings. The new aerial is a 48 element.
Today I bought a new booster and power supply (comes from a different room as no power in the loft) after setting everything up we managed to get a picture on 2 out of the 5 TVs in our house. 1 is watchable but the other is unwatchable (very pixelated). The other 3 have no signal. The TV's that do work have not picked up any BBC channels.
And to top it all we have had 3 different people tell is we are running off 3 different transmitter. Oxford, Mendip and Cirencester. Lol I am lost
Any professional advise welcome.
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Monday, 24 December 2012
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jb3812:13 AM
Simon: Only Oxford is indicated as providing a reasonable level of signal at your particular location, but even at that the COM channels are shown as being variable, Mendip indicates almost all of its channels as being variable and with Cirencester indicating OK on the BBC & the HD service but with ITV1 being variable, this latter station is a limited channels PSB only transmitter.
With regards to your new booster / splitter, what model of device is it? the other point being that in situations such as yours "manual tuning" of the muxes is liable to bring in results over that of an auto-tune.
Oxfords muxes are / Ch53 - 60 - 57 - 62 - 59 - 55
Another point to note being, that if carrying out a manual tune then as soon as the channel number to scan is entered into the box the signal level of that channel entered will immediately appear in the level bar if you do NOT press search or scan.
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Monday, 14 January 2013
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pikpilot10:20 PM
Just discovered, the hard way, that programme 25 (Dave ja vu) has been moved from channel 59- (ArqA) to Channel 62 (SDN) so you need to re-tune. List of programmes against channels above need updating.
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pikpilot: There was a typo in the database, so COM4/SDN Dave Ja Vu wasn't showing up in the right place. It's fixed now.
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