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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Monday, 9 October 2023
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Chris.SE10:27 PM
Heather Holmes:
As per my post further up the page, it's current weather conditions -
Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | free and easy for 21 years
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Dawn Penman10:31 PM
Cirencester
My near neighbours and myself are having problems with tv reception, picture breaking up and programmes disappearing. Everything has been checked and we have all had problems for the last three days. Is this related to the weather?
GL7 4HJ
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Dawn's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE10:43 PM
Dawn Penman:
Further to my post at the top of the page -
It's current weather conditions affecting you, they have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter.
The BBC and Freeview have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - from 07 October | Help receiving TV and radio
High pressure could affect reception across parts of the UK this week | Freeview
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Saturday, 14 October 2023
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Jody12:24 PM
Since the freeview issues at the weekend, we are still have pixalling on PSB2 channels. Surely this should be back to normal by now. Have never had freeview issues like this before. Dunstable area
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Chris.SE1:09 PM
Jody:
The Tropospheric Ducting conditions this time were quite extreme periodically and only very recently seem to have cleared. There's the possibility according to some predictions that there may be some more middle of next week but not as severe.
IF you retuned at all when your reception was disrupted (be it weather, engineering or faults) then if you had no signal or very badly pixilation, it often just clears your correct tuning. If you were previously correctly tuned, it's never recommended to retune under any of those conditions.
You've posted on the Oxford transmitter page, if it is Oxford you normally get your signals from it may not be the best of reception you get in the Dunstable area but it will depend very much on location. As you haven't given a full postcode I can't check that.
IF you retuned whilst your signals were disrupted by the Tropo, there's also the possibility you may get tuned to an incorrect transmitter with weak signals. There are 4 main transmitters that might be readily received in parts of your area.
If it's Oxford that you are supposed to be receiving, check in your TV Tuning section that you are correctly tuned to Oxford's UHF channels which are C41, C44, C47, C29, C31, & C37.
That's in multiplex order PSB1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB HD, COM4/SDN, COM5/ARQA, COM6/ARQB.
C means channel, if you hover over those numbers it tells you the frequency if you need those.
If you receive the Local multiplex in your locale, that's on C46 in your area.
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Jody6:49 PM
Hi, thanks for the info but haven't done any retuning as I know not to when there are signal issues. Yes we are always tuned into oxford transmitter and normally have very good signal. Just getting pixelling every few minutes on the itv and ch5 channels which are all on psb2 ch44
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Chris.SE7:11 PM
Jody:
Odd, as the tropo should have cleared for now.
Do the obvious checks, make sure your aerial still looks intact and is pointing correctly, your downlead isn't flapping in the wind, and all your coax plugs etc are in correctly. Make sure you don't have any HDMI leads close to your aerial lead or flyleads.
It ought to be safe to retune if nothing else solves the problem. I wonder if you are getting other interference?
Have you had a postcard from https://restoretv.uk ?
You may have a mobile mast nearby now, new/updated operating in the 700 MHz band
Go to the website and put your postcode in https://restoretv.uk /postcards-not-sure/
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Jody10:14 PM
Hi, thanks. No haven't had any postcards. Checked on that site and no postcard has been sent either.
I dont believe a retune will make any difference if my TVs are manually tuned, or will it?
Don't ever auto tune, I manually tune to the muxes on the Oxford transmitter.
When we had issues last weekend, we asked our neighbour to check their tv and they confirmed issues too. So that ruled out it being issues with our aerial. Then read about the weather issue during the week which confirmed it wasn't our equipment. Just checked ch5 and it seems fine at the moment. It's been quite temperamental though. Just brief pixelation and quick stutter in sound once every 5 mins or so.
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Sunday, 15 October 2023
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Chris.SE3:49 AM
Jody:
Hi, sounds like you've done all the sensible and correct things. If you normally manually tune then that is always best and as you suggest, there would be no benefit in retuning.
There's no reported faults that I can find for Oxford and it's not currently listed for Planned Engineering so hopefully the issues have gone away. Post back if problems start again.
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Sunday, 5 November 2023
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Jody5:32 PM
Hi
I just manually retuned one of my TVs on channel 41 and I'm very confused as its put BBC1 South HD on channel 1 and BBC1 South SD has moved to channel 611.
Thinking there had been a change to the channels I did a retune on my other TV on channel 41 and nothing has changed. On this TV set BBC1South SD is on channel 1 and BBC1 South HD is on channel 101.
Has left me scratching my head a bit?
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