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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Sunday, 5 January 2014
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MikeB9:08 PM
Rob Mitchell: Could you check which transmitter your using? You should be getting BBC's Central News, since the Oxford transmitter is only 8km away!
If you look at the Digital UK tradeview link, you can what might be happening. When a box tunes itself, it will often start with the lowest RF frequency, and then go up from there. Sandy Heath is on channel 27, and Hannington is on 45. Niether of these are very good for you. Oxford is on 53. Try manual tuning, and hopefully you should get Oxford and all your channels.
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rob mitchell10:59 PM
Rob Mitchell: i have no issues with bbc channels they are great, itv channels and others are blocky with good signal. I have the channels from 53 but cannot get them from 50 at all for quest etc. This only started to happen a couple of weeks ago before then i had no blocky picture and all the channels.
thanks for your help and advice, much appreciated.
Rob
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Monday, 6 January 2014
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Brennig 6:01 AM
Mike B: you have continued to ignore my requests for you to stop tweeting me, leaving me with no alternative but to block your account and report it for spam
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Rob Mitchell2:09 PM
Kidlington
Dear All,
Still having issues with this, the channel signal for the bbc channels is good and i have no issues with them, but the ITV channels have high signal strength and is blocky at times and the sound dips out. From Com 3 all my channels are gone, I would really like to get these back and sort out the interference.
Any help would be very welcome.
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rob mitchell5:47 PM
Rob Mitchell: well all everything is now back, think the blocky picture is also gone, no idea what was going on
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Brennig : Without appearing rude, if you intend to use something (Twitter) you should find how how it works.
Mom This is How Twitter Works
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Brennig 8:00 PM
Briantist:I don't follow you. I think it's you who needs a lesson in the basics of Twitter. You can send an @ tweet to anyone, regardless of whether they are following you or not. Good grief.
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Monday, 13 January 2014
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Rob 10:43 AM
Kidlington
Hi All,
I'm back again, Having issues again with my tv reception, The channels i am having trouble with are on PSB2 D3+4 from the Oxford transmitter. All other channels are just fine.
The ones on PSB2 D3+4 say they have 100% signal on my sony TV however they keep breaking up like the signal is poor. I have 100% also on the other channels which have no issue but no break up in signal.
They say there is no engineering works at Oxford however i do not understand how all multiplexes work properly apart from PSB2 D3+4.
Looking at the guidance here i have a cat 2 ariel which has been OK the last 3 years.
Please Help, its doing my head in!!!
Regards
Rob
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David Pinfold7:45 PM
Rob - It sounds to me like you may be having problems with too high signal level. In Kidlington you are pretty much in a strong signal area from from Beckley as you can get. If you have any aerial amplifiers coming off your aerial most definitely remove them! It may be necessary to fit an attenuator between the aerial & TV. You should be able to Find them on the internet (Amazon ETC) but you would most definitely get them from Maplins on Botley road. See the Link here:-
Variable Aerial Attenuator | Maplin
Judging by your last post too strong a signal seems the most likely (OX161DJ)
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David Pinfold8:05 PM
Banbury
Also the signal level indicators on most TVs aren't that good you shouldn't need much more than 75-85% signal strength to achieve perfect reception. 100% does indicate a signal overload.
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