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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Sunday, 4 December 2022
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Les10:54 PM
StevensOnln1: I agree, Oxford PSB2 seems to be much lower power than other muxes which frequently results in the loss of the entire itv, channel 4 and channel 5 channels. Sometimes its 100% signal on this mix, other times, for weeks on end, its 0% signal. Its been like this for years. Extremely poor and nothing ever gets done about it.
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Monday, 5 December 2022
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Chris.SE1:56 PM
Les:
I've tried to post a reply to you twice now, but it has not appeared. I'll try again shortly.
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Chris.SE2:51 PM
Les - I'm going to split my reply into two posts to see if that helps.
As you haven't given a full postcode, we can't advise if there are any specific issues that may affect reception in your area.
I can't find any recent faults reported for the Oxford transmitter and its not been listed for Planned Engineering in recent weeks.
PSB2 is transmitted using the same power as PSB1 and PSB3.
This sounds like it could be an interference problem either in your particular area or even with your installation. If there really was 0% signal from the transmitter, believe me, this board and elsewhere would be full of complaints.
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Chris.SE2:58 PM
Les - I'm splitting the post again to find the problem
We could do with a bit more information about the problem and the installation.
Does this start at any particular time of day?
Do you have any reception problems with the HD channels on 101-106/109?
What sort of quality figures (or BER - Bit error rate) do you typically get for the PSB2 multiplex UHF C44 and the HD multiplex on UHF C47?
Do you have problems with any other groups of channels (muxes) eg. COMs4-6?
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Chris.SE3:03 PM
Les - I've been editing bits of the post to try and solve the posting issue!
Roughly how old is your aerial installation? Do you know what type of aerial it is?
Do you have any amplifier/splitter to feed more than one TV? If so, what make and model is it?
Have you checked all your coax plugs and connections behind your TV?
Make sure that you don't have any HDMI cables running close to your aerial cables.
Have you ever received a postcard from restoretv.uk ?
Don't forget that full postcode.
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Wednesday, 21 December 2022
Transmitter engineering
5:08 AM
5:08 AM
OXFORD transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 20 Dec 22:52 until 20 Dec 23:06. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Transmitter engineering
2:09 PM
2:09 PM
OXFORD transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 18 Jan 11:01 until 18 Jan 12:01. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 14 February 2023
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Stephen Petitt3:26 PM
We've lost MUX4 on Tuesday 14/2/23 at 15:24, none of the channels are showing in our EPG, we have previously lost reception due to atmospherics but nothing about today's forecast appears to be the extremes that we have previously had so loathe to do another re-tune.
Anybody else experiencing this problem.
Thanks
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Chris.SE3:44 PM
Stephen Petitt:
Do NOT retune. There has been some quite strong tropospheric ducting/temperature inversion periodically affecting large parts of the UK in recent days. This is predicted to ease as the day progresses. Not all multiplexes will be affected, it depends on where the interference is coming from as it can be very frequency dependant.
It is never advised to retune when you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures as this usually just clears your correct tuning, or you end up tuned to some distant transmitter whose signals disappear as conditions change. You then have to retune again, which you may have to try several times as you won't know when the signals are normal!
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Wednesday, 14 June 2023
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keith batt4:33 AM
signal keeps coming up tv as weak, have retuned a couple of times but not any better, lost at least chan 3 to 8 and bbc shows as weak.
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