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.
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 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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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Tuesday, 7 April 2020
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Chris.SE9:00 PM
Pat:
I'm afraid trying to get more detailed information on Planned Engineering seems to be a waste of effort as "Freeview" generally don't seem to have a clue (the best they seem to say is it may affect your reception!).
Whether the DigitalUK staff know what Arqiva are doing in detail (without asking) is anyone's guess, I get the impression they don't, as the last time I pursued a fault with them it was like banging a head against a wall and ended up with Arqiva denying there was any fault - despite the fact that the fault mysteriously got rectified at the crack of dawn on the first day of "Planned Engineering" (ha ha).
As far as the actual problem is concerned, it depends on exactly what they are doing at the transmitter. Whilst a weak signal itself shouldn't cause what you are seeing, whatever they need to do may require the transmitter power to be reduced at some point, I'm not a transmitter engineer!
Past experienced suggests that contacting the broadcaster about a persisting problem gets quicker action than anything else, as they know exactly who to get on to, to get it sorted.
There never has bee any clear information about any faults for any of the commercial transmissions whether it be Radio or TV, only the BBC have publicly accessible reporting mechanisms for anything affecting their own broadcasts.
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Wednesday, 8 April 2020
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Pat9:12 AM
Chris.SE:
When I went to bed last night the channel was still borked, this morning it's back to normal. I guess I'll put it down to the engineering works. I am astonished that such a major Freeview channel can get so broken and yet it goes almost unremarked. Oh well.
Anyway, thank you for your informative responses.
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Saturday, 25 April 2020
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Leslie Stacey2:10 PM
Buckingham
We have lost ITV, Channel 4, 5,6,10,13 - All C44 broadcasts for approaching a week now.
MK18 2HR post code.
Any thoughts?
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Chris.SE2:39 PM
Leslie Stacey:
Well that is very strange. I can find no current or recent faults listed either by Freeview or the BBC for the Oxford transmitter and it's not currently listed for Planned Engineering.
I suggest that you check all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads can be a common problem, try swapping them. See what signal strengths (if any) and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section, this might indicate potential issues with your aerial or downlead. Also check that your downlead looks undamaged and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
If that all seems ok, I suggest you carry out a retune as follows - unplug the aerial and carry out a full automatic retune which should clear all previous tuning as no channels will be found. Switch off the set for 10 minutes.
Then plug the aerial back in and switch on and repeat the retune, hopefully all channels will be correctly restored.
Also note that the correct UHF channels for Oxford are C41, C44, C47, C29, C37, C31, C55, C56, C46 in the order PSBs1-3, COMs4-8, Local. Unfortunately the site owner has not had the time to update one of the tables at the top of the page as a result of the 700MHz clearance.
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Monday, 27 April 2020
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Chris.SE1:39 PM
Leslie Stacey:
Oxford is now listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible weak signal", so there's obviously been some sort of issue.
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Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
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Richard2:06 PM
After the demise of com8 i was hoping for a better signal but channel 55 com7 signal from Oxford is rubbish - the power remains so much less than the main channels.
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Chris.SE8:52 PM
Richard:
If you provide a full postcode we can look at your predicted reception from both Sutton Coldfield and Oxford.
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Saturday, 13 February 2021
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Bernard Martin10:31 PM
I don't understand it. There have been two FREEVIEW channel updates recently and I see I can now again get BBCHDNews on Freeview CH107 (MPX Com7 transmitted on low power from Beckley). I lost all the COM7 channels from mid to late 2020 and had assumed the reorganisation meant that that was the end of that.
So why can I receive COM7 again. Using a wideband highgain aerial with high signal strength (10) and low dropout on most of the other channels. So no changes here.
Be good to have an explanation please?
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Sunday, 14 February 2021
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Chris.SE3:36 PM
Bernard Martin:
You may have been able to receive COM7 a while ago but not noticed.
As you probably know, COM7 is a temporary multiplex, which will close by the end of June 2022 (as per the current licence) if not before. The frequency it uses is allocated for Mobile "SDL" usage. IF when the 700MHz frequencies are sold (due soon), any MNO that buys those particular frequencies will need to develop cell equipment, and suitable handsets need to be available as well. This will take time, but as soon as an operator is ready to use the frequencies, 3 months notice may be given for COM7 to close.
The only other reason COM7 may close earlier is for commercial reasons as Arqiva decided for COM8 last June.
COM7 operates as Single Frequency Network (SFN) on UHF C55 along with the other 25 main transmitters that still transmit it. This means there will be some locations where the signal you get is affected by other transmitters, so if any of those signals are off-air or low due to transmitter maintenance or faults, this can change your reception.
If you happen to retune (or the set auto-retunes) when there is no or very weak signal, it usually just clears the correct tuning, and you may not get the signals until a further retune. If those signals are normally weak, auto-retune wil sometimes miss them, so a manual retune on UHF C55 should be tried.
Hope that information helps.
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