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 06/12/2021 Possible 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 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 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 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 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 (183°)
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 | 29 May 13 | 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 |
Local transmitter maps
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Friday, 28 January 2022
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Roger Turner2:59 PM
Bampton
We've had breaks in all channels just recently, checking the signal strength on two separate aerials and we are down to 50%, this used to be 95%+.
OX18 1BL using the Oxford Transmitter.
Both aerials are in the loft and this is affecting all TV's with the cables inside, so no weather or water ingress issues. All connections checked and are fine.
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Saturday, 29 January 2022
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Chris.SE7:36 AM
Roger Turner:
This is most likely to be due to current weather conditions. The current high pressure weather system has been accompanied by some "Temperature Inversion/Tropospheric Ducting" where signals from distant transmitters are carried further than normal, due to the particular layers of the atmosphere. It causes interference to your wanted signals. This can result in changes to received signal strength and quality.
The problems can last for seconds, minutes ,hours, sometimes even longer. Do NOT retune, you are likely to just lose your correct tuning.
There are currently no reported transmitter faults or listed Planned Engineering for Oxford.
As the conditions vary you should see changes in those figures and current predicted suggest that it all may clear over the next couple of days.
If you continue to see problems, post back with some more specific figures for each multiplex.
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Wednesday, 27 April 2022
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Mal McGar3:50 PM
Hi I am in Milton Keynes but due to terrain I have to receive your service via the Oxford Transmitter. However since the last update I am no longer able to watch all the channels I did previously. Before I proceed, please can you tell me which channels I should be able to see.
The list provided here is far from user friendly, therefore can you either send me a channel list or a suitable link.
Thank you in anticipation
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StevensOnln14:24 PM
Mal McGar: This website has nothing to do with operating any channel or transmitter, this is an independent technical help website. If you provide a full postcode we can check what you are predicted to receive. There is a full list of channels including which multiplex carries each channel on the Freeview corporate website (see link below). If you can tell us which channels you are no longer able to receive that may help identify the cause.
Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
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Monday, 18 July 2022
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Chris.SE4:41 PM
All:
As the listings at the top of this page aren't fully updated, for the sake of clarity, here is the current data -
In the multiplex order BBCA/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBCB HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ArqA/COM5, ArqB/COM6
Oxford UHF channels are -
The main multiplexes are C41, C44, C47, C29, C37, C31
The Local mux L-OFD is on C22.
Note - COM7 has now closed.
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Tuesday, 19 July 2022
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Aerialman3:33 PM
Local mux L-OFD is also on channel 40 as well with directional petal.
Absolutely,agree! if you are going to have a site that gives information of TV Transmitters,channel numbers,frequencies Kw powers it's most important that they are accurate and kept up to date with.
If not then this site is not useful to anyone!and can be misleading.
The owner of this site in passed years has decided not to keep up with transmitter technical changes
and that is not a responsible position!
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Chris.SE10:47 PM
Aerialman:
Thanks for pointing out the extra petal for the Oxford Local mux. I recall seeing it mentioned in an OFCOM document I read some 18months+ ago but had forgotten since.
According to OFCOM and Freeview/DUK documents it is actually on UHF C46 (not 40) and beams due E.
The petal on C22 beams both NW and a little less to the SW.
Both petals use 10kW each.
I'm not sure that "decided" is the right word for the lack of some site updates by the owner, I think it's more a case of not having had sufficient time, as you probably know there are over 1100 transmitters in the UK many of which had changes with the 700MHz clearance. I know that updating is a tedious job because the updates from OFCOM documents have to be entered into the database manually as the source documents are all .pdf so not a task I would relish!
Nevertheless it is rather a shame that there hasn't been some progress on updating at least the 80+ main transmitters where needed. I know the site owner has been in hospital recently with pneumonia which obviously isn't helpful to the cause.
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