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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Wednesday, 23 January 2013
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nickwilcock5:17 PM
Witney
I meant to say that it hadn't reset itself to 'Show All'!
And I'm NOT in Driffield!
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Thanks nickwilcock and Paul.
There are no such config settings.
I used to have the full range of radio and now they've gone.
So is there anyone else receiving from the OX transmitter who can check whether they have radio?
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Thursday, 24 January 2013
Friday, 25 January 2013
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Paul7:48 AM
"So is there anyone else receiving from the OX transmitter who can check whether they have radio?"
Yes. I do. I have.
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nickwilcock5:25 PM
Witney
I concur. 700-716, 718, 722-725, 727-728 are all fine here in East Witney.
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Monday, 11 February 2013
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Roy Mercer1:23 PM
Cheltenham
My Television was pix elating and so I retuned it, but I have lost majority of my Freebview channels. I only seem to have BBC channels.
I live Just out side Stow on the Wold, Glos
Post code GL54 1ES
What do you suggest?
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jb383:16 PM
Roy Mercer: Its never advisable to retune any TV or box unless for purposes of carrying out a pre-announced channel change, as all a retune does if carried out during a spell of iffy reception is to wipe out anything that's already stored in the tuners memory, as indeed has happened in your case. If you carry out a second retune and find the results are still not satisfactory then your best bet is to manually tune in each of Oxfords six muxes after having cleared the tuners memory, this done by either carrying out a "factory reset" or "default setting", or if offered, selecting "first time installation" but NOT allowing an auto-tune to start should your set do that, as many do. Enter the following mux channel numbers one at a time followed by pressing search or scan, then saving the results before entering the next mux channel number and so on. Manual tuning will frequently pick up an iffy channel that a auto-tune has missed, as there is always an element of pull during an auto-tune that does not happen during a single mux tune. Oxfords channels being / BBC 53 - ITV 60 - HD 57 - SDN 62 - ArqA 59 - ArqB 55, note this latter mux is indicated as providing variable reception for your area, Oxford being 28 miles away.
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Thursday, 14 February 2013
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Paul8:07 AM
Roy Mercer, I suggest that you unplug the TV's aerial and do a full rescan / retune. This should find no channels and store those ( none ) channels in the TV's memory. This gives you a clean starting point.
Are you sure that you use the Oxford transmitter? The clue is that you see BBC South ( Oxford ) news and Meridian News.
Then you need to manaually retune to each UHF frequency from your preferred transmitter ( which is probably Oxford ).
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jb388:41 AM
Paul: Pardon me if I am wrong, but isn't the advice given just an abbreviated version of "exactly" what I have already advised Roy Mercer as being the best policy to take three days ago?
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