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.
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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, 23 May 2018
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Grahame Hughes9:53 AM
Wantage
Any ETA on when Oxford transmitter will be up again? For it to shut down at 00:04 and only be acknowledged for maintenance at 06:05 seems a little "slow" for the digital age ...
my p/c OX12 7JN
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Karen 12:17 PM
Reception okay now.
I agree that it was not very helpful to be told of the outage only after the event.
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MikeP
12:43 PM
12:43 PM
Karen:
IKt is usual for Transmitter Engineering to give the information after the event. Especially as in this case the work was done overnight when far fewer are watching.
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Stephen12:56 PM
Are there still problems with Oxford. We were notified of a retune which I've done, one TV appears to have all of the channels and all of the other only have Coms 5, 8 and 9!
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MikeP
1:04 PM
1:04 PM
Stephen:
There is no known problems at Oxford currently. There was engineering work overnight but that has been completed.
If you are still having problems please check all your aerial connections to the TV giving problems. As the other is receiving all channels there cannot be any problem at the transmitter. But the TV not gettin g all channels has a problem, either with the signal being fed to it or else it is being overloaded with too much signal.
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Stephen1:35 PM
The problem is effecting my recording computer I have five tuners and they are all only finding channels on 5,8,9. Have the frequencies for the other COMs changed and if they have do you know what they now are?
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Susan Devine1:46 PM
I updated this morning via my by youview and have lost loads of channels why?
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nickwilcock1:55 PM
New Oxford channels are:
22 - LOC1 (Oxford); 29 - SDN; 31 - ArqB; 41 - BBC A; 44 - D3+4; 46 - LOC2 (nothing yet seen); 47 - BBC B; 55 - COM7; 56 - COM8; 59 - ArqA.
All seem to be fine here in East Witney; however, I don't know when LOC2 is due to air.
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StevensOnln12:25 PM
Susan Devine: Several multiplexes changed frequency at the Oxford transmitter overnight. If you cannot restore the missing channels by retuning you are most likely using a Group C/D aerial which is not designed to receive some of the lower frequencies now in use. If you don't have satellite or cable you should be eligible to have a replacement wideband aerial fitted free of charge, which can be arranged by contacting the Freeview Advice Line (see link below).
Important changes to Freeview TV signals | Freeview
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