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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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) mast?

Oxford transmitter - Oxford transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Oxford transmitter broadcast?

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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C41+ (634.2MHz)295mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South (Oxford), 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C44- (657.8MHz)295mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C47 (682.0MHz)295mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South (Oxford), 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C29 (538.0MHz)295mDTG-850,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C37- (601.8MHz)319mDTG-850,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C31 (554.0MHz)319mDTG-850,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

LOX
 H -10dB
C46 (674.0MHz)295mDTG-1210,000W
Channel icons
from 22nd December 2014: 7 That's Oxford,

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
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
regional news image
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-80s1984-971997-981998-20112011-132013-182013-1723 May 2018
VHFC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TW TW T
C2BBCtvwaves
C29SDN
C31com7com7
C37com8com8
C41BBCA
C44D3+4
C46_local
C47BBCB
C49tv_offC5wavesC5waves
C50tv_off SDNSDN
C51tv_offLOXLOX
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves+BBCA+BBCA+BBCA
C55tv_offArqBArqBArqBcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C59tv_off-ArqA-ArqA-ArqA
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves-D3+4-D3+4-D3+4
C62SDN
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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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

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Dec 2006Central Independent Television
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Oxford was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Thursday, 30 January 2014
Dave Lindsay
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2:44 PM

Caz: Your blond husband is switching off the booster which is likely to be located adjacent to the aerial. What is referred to as a "booster" is in fact a power supply for a booster which is fitted where the single feed from the aerial splits into two, one to each room. Thus, by turning off the power supply the booster has no power and a booster with no power will give out little or no signal.

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rob
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2:51 PM
Kidlington

Well, good news for you, mine is definitely interference from next door. Does anyone have any ideas on how i can protect against it?

Regards
Rob.

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mazbar
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3:03 PM

rob: I just have to ask have you had the aerial checked out. I have never heared of interfereance from the next house. If your coax is damaged this could be letting in the interfereance but a good aerial with good coax with sheliding should block it. So call someone out to check what the problem is this website is good for advice but without being at your house no one can give you 100% the answer.

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Chris
8:39 PM

Rob: I'm in Oxfordshire and I had on and off reception with some channels last few weeks too and this week lost a lot of channels including the HD channels. Surely this is just down to the oxford transmitter engineering works this week? That would be why your neighbour also has poor reception. It was obviously not a great signal before which I assume is why they are working on it. Is there any way of finding out the details of the engineering work? (51.6887,-1.2717) 

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MikeP
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9:37 PM
Calne

Caz
Because of Rob's very different location to you, the suggestion of a 'booster' (better called an aerial amplifier) is not correct. He is only 7 km away from the Oxford transmitter so gets a good strong signal already and it does not need amplifying. If it were then in his location he would have had far worse loss of services because of the signal then being far too strong.

As we do not have any idea of your location, other than it being in Buckinghamshire (with is not a small county), we cannot make any suggestions.

As David Linsay has stated, the item behind your TV set that is connected in the aerial feed cable is a power supply, the amplifier is mounted close to your aerial. The power supply needs to be left powered on to operate the aerial amplifier so your bedroom signals are properly delivered.

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MikeP
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9:40 PM
Calne

Mazbar
Much earlier in the discussion of Rob's problem it was established that it is only affecting one TV connected to his system in the room that is adjacent to the wall which has his neighbours Virgin equipment at the other side. The problem is not present on his other TV sets, so the aerial is fine and not a factor in this particular problem. Likewise, he has tried moving the TV set to the other side of the room successfully, again showing the aerial system is not a culprit.

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Rob
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10:55 PM

Thanks Mike P,
Hope the neighbors ring virgin for an engineer like they said they would. I cant see this being anything else than em interference, hoping that the engineer will move the offending source.
could by a new tv but don't really want too and there is no guarantee that the new one wont do the same.

regards
Rob

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Friday, 31 January 2014
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jb38
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12:21 AM

Rob: Have you as yet tried turning your TV around by 90 degrees so as to have it facing end on to the offending wall? the reason for this request being that I suspect that your TV "might" be more susceptible to picking up locally generated EM interference directly into its PCB circuitry if any of the internal earth bonding jumpers used to link the metal screening cans on such as the tuners or any other vulnerable areas have not been tightened up properly, or indeed are missing! and should anything of that nature apply then any interference being picked up in that way is usually highly directional whereby is affected by angles, likewise turning the set around by 90 degrees or so being one way one way of revealing its existence without having the benefit of any test gear being to hand, that being your biggest impediment!

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mazbar
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6:09 AM

MikeP: that doesn't rule out any problem that having the system checked won't correct , but then again I don't know how to fix a tv I only know about aerials so I stick to advice about aerials.

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Rob
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6:30 AM

Hi jb38
yet to turn the tv around, i will have a go today if i get the chance, i thought that the shielding on the tv would have been good it being Sony. However this may be the first time it hAs been near any type of strong EMI so may have been faulty all along.
Is there any check i can do inside the TV?
cheers
Rob

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