Full Freeview on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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.
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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.
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, 13 December 2017
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StevensOnln16:53 PM
Tony Bove: There are no faults showing for Sandy Heath. Are the three TVs fed by the same aerial? Is there a powered amplifier to distribute the signal around your home? If there is, check that the power supply to the amplifier hasn't been inadvertently switched off or unplugged. If the amplifier appears to be powered on, disconnect the incoming feed from the aerial and connect it directly to the feed to one of the TVs. If that TV gets a picture it would indicate that the amplifier is dead and needs replacing.
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Monday, 25 December 2017
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J Rattigan10:11 AM
Banbury
Its Christmas Day and we can only receive good signals from the PSB1 and COM4 sections of the transmitter. All other sections have very poor signals so programmes cannot be watched.
Since I receive a good signal from PSB1 and COM4 its is not my aerial, booster or leads. This problem has occurred intermittently for years along with no mobile phone signal in OX15 5RS. I wonder if the problems are related?
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J's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln112:30 PM
J Rattigan: Have you actually checked your aerial, booster or leads? Having a good signal on one mux doesn't necessarily mean that you don't have a problem with your system affecting other frequencies. A long term problem with the transmitter would be noticed by lots of people, so it's more likely to be something local to you.
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Tuesday, 27 February 2018
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Stephen4:11 PM
I've lost COM7 on the Oxford Transmitter, a previous post suggests that there may be engineering works but they should have finished by now, anybody else having problems?
Thanks
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Stephen4:55 PM
Update
Had to do a retune! Not sure why as I thought that all of the changes to COM7 had been done a couple of weeks ago
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Adrian Crafer8:44 PM
Edinburgh
Stephen: There was supposed to be shuffle to the 5G clearance arrangement even trailed on the late BBC one news and on pop ups on PSB1.
So presumably got it all to happen again sometime this year, particularly as the comms that have moved do not appear to be at their final positions.
COMM 6 moved to C31 and COMM7 moved to
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Adrian Crafer8:50 PM
Edinburgh
Some how the last bit of my comment vanished.
COMM6 to C31 and COMM7 to C56
Also have to find out why the system thinks I am in Edingburgh rather than Swindon.
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StevensOnln19:23 PM
Stephen & Adrian Crafter: The first frequency change at Oxford took place this morning, which COM5 moving to UHF channel 31 and COM7 moving to 55 (they were previously the other way around).
Adrian Crafter: You appear to have entered an Edinburgh postcode into this website at some point (going by the links which have appeared under your post).
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Richard9:59 PM
I have also lost COM7 from Oxford. Just retuned and no COM7 channels are found.
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StevensOnln110:52 PM
Richard: Try manual tuning on UHF channel 55. If that doesn't restore COM7 channels, please provide a full postcode so that we can see your predicted coverage following today's frequency changes.
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