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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Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Dave Lindsay
4:56 PM
4:56 PM
KMJ,Derby: Digital UK Coverage Checker still says it's on C51.
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Wednesday, 22 October 2014
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nickwilcock9:19 AM
Well, the Digital UK Coverage Checker is wrong - there's nothing on Ch51 and the new services are most assuredly on Ch29!
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nickwilcock9:31 AM
To continue, the variation was approved on 18 July 2014 and the current technical plan for local digital TV services may be viewed at http://licensing.ofcom.or….pdf .
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Dave Lindsay
7:21 PM
7:21 PM
nickwilcock: That Ofcom document says it's at 4kW whereas Digital UK says that C51 was to be at 10kW.
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Dave Lindsay: This http://www.ofcom.org.uk/s….csv Ofcom file says it 10kW
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Thursday, 23 October 2014
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nickwilcock10:12 AM
As Ofcom agreed to the change of frequency allocation in order to improve the coverage available to That's Oxford, it will be interesting to see whether the new service will be including more emphasis on news and events in OxfordSHIRE rather than in merely the city....
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mmm11:15 AM
Oxford
Digital UK Coverage Checker now corrected to say L-OXD on C29 with configuration QPSK 3/4 8k DVB-T
4 kiloWatts
No news on when (or indeed if?) That's Oxford or Solent will be launching on LCN 8!
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Monday, 3 November 2014
Transmitter engineering
10:31 AM
10:31 AM
OXFORD transmitter - MainPossible service interruptions [DUK]
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Saturday, 8 November 2014
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Nick Astley-Cooper10:12 AM
Didcot
Until a couple of months-ish ago, I got good signal and BER levels on the three TVs in my house, using a whopping loft-mounted aerial (Thevales 19dBi). Now the signal is significantly weaker across all channels. I can boost it by switching on my PVR and using its amplifier in line but previously this was not necessary. I realize I should have a roof-mounted aerial but that is impractical in my situation, and anyway, the signal has been good until just recently. Has anything changed that would account for this sudden step difference, eg 4G addition, in which case might a filter improve things? Or at the edge of coverage as I am, might its insertion loss outweigh any advantage?
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James Lamb1:18 PM
Dumfries
Unable to obtain full coverage due to being obliged to use Thornhill's relay transmitter. Coverage has failed before, sometimes for 3 weeks, but in the past has come back. In recent weeks just the BBC channels were gone but now it's every channel. It was Ok for 2-3 days until this morning but all are away again. I have a roof aerial fed into a splitter amplifier and thought I had resolved the problem by by passing the amp but this only worked for a few days. Unable to get info re any work on the transmitter or the effects of 4g.
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