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 |
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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
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Saturday, 31 March 2018
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Stephen8:34 PM
Sorry my post was badly worded, my system only has DVB-T2 tuners.
So as an example. I'm recording 6 programmes at the same time, four on separate muxes and the last two are on COM7, one is SD and the other is HD. Should this work?
My system allows the six records as but when the programmes actually start only the one that starts first on COM7 actually does.
I'm trying to find out if I have a hardware problem or if it won't work in the first place.
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js10:49 PM
Stephen: It should work. SD or HD makes no difference.
Which channels, are you certain they are both on com7?
COM7
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LCN SID TYPE SERVICE NAME
056 A180 22 5USA+1
057 A200 22 5Spike+1
064 A1E0 22 CBS Action+1
067 A170 22 CBS Reality +1
082 A1B0 22 Vintage TV
084 A1D0 22 Quest Red+1
087 A1A0 22 Keep It Country
097 A1F0 22 Pick+1
107 A000 25 BBC NEWS HD
108 A050 25 Al Jazeera Eng HD
109 A030 25 Channel 4+1 HD
110 A040 25 4seven HD
113 A150 25 RT HD
272 A160 12 Bollywood HD
733 A0D0 02 Trans World Radio
792 A110 22 VIVA
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What software are you using?
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Sunday, 1 April 2018
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Stephen10:38 PM
It seems to be 4Seven HD that I have had problems with.
It's possible that it's the scheduler as I was setting up yesterday and it seemed to be treating Radio 1 as being on a different Mux from BBC1 and BBC2, I have not had a problem with radio and TV before although most of the radio I record is not on at prime time so there are usually plenty of tuners available.
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Wednesday, 4 April 2018
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js2:34 AM
Stephen: You don't say what software you use but if you are able to look at the channel properties, the TSID (or maybe TID) will be the same for all channels on the same multiplex.
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Sunday, 8 April 2018
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Bjorn4:08 PM
COM7 is now on Channel 55 (746MHz) as per DigitalUK coverage checker.
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Monday, 9 April 2018
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Richard9:00 PM
Something odd has been happening with COM 7. After the last re-tune I lost it completely but now it is fully back and all channels are watchable again. Not sure when exactly it got better.
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Friday, 13 April 2018
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Bjorn2:19 PM
Yeah I can't get COM 7 at all on either 746MHz (digitaltv info) or 554Mhz as per this site. Oh well at least it's not a main one.
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Sunday, 15 April 2018
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nickwilcock9:40 PM
COM7 seems to be having issues. It's OK on my Panasonic TV and HDD recorder in the living room, but not on my Manhattan Freeview STB in the kitchen. BBCA on 53 and BBCB on 57 are still fine, as are SDN on 50 and ArqA on 59.
???
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Monday, 16 April 2018
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Bjorn10:26 AM
"Possible Service Interruptions" is listed for Oxford for this week
Digital UK | Planned engineering works
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Saturday, 28 April 2018
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