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 22/04/2024 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 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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Saturday, 14 October 2023
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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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Monday, 30 October 2023
Transmitter engineering
10:47 AM
10:47 AM
Oxford transmitter - Oxford transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 30/10/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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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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Steve Donaldson6:06 PM
Jody: It's because the TV which has not done the swap pre-dates the capability to do the swap!
Changes to BBC HD channels as Freeview HD swap rolls out > RXTV info
The capability to replace SD channels with their HD variant has only been devised and made available in the last few years. This is as a response to the obvious, which is that the HD variants should take up the logical channel numbers of their SD counterparts where they exist (instead of languishing in the 1xx range). When the system/standard was devised in the first place, this wasn't thought of and was not an issue or requirement.
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Jody7:43 PM
Thanks for the info but the TV is only 18 months old. It is a Samsung. I've been doing some reading since I posted earlier and think it might be do do with the TV not having freeview play, only freeview. Read somewhere that Samsung TVs don't have freeview play.
I just hope that in the future, if BBC SD gets retired, we won't end up with channel 1 being empty and having to go to 101 just to watch BBC
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Chris.SE7:44 PM
Jody:
Here's another interesting technical article about Freeview Play HD channels
https://cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/15427/opinion/next-gen-freeview-starts-with-an-hd-swap/
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Chris.SE7:53 PM
Jody:
You are quite correct that it has do do with the set being compliant with Freeview Play specifications and so having Freeview Play. Your set should have a "Channel Manager" somewhere in Settings which would allow you to swap channels around to suit your own requirements.
On some sets/makes you might have to do it by using a "Favouites" feature.
In any event I would expect Samsung to do a Firmware update at some time which will take care of such "swaps" in the future to avoid LCN 1, 2 etc being left vacant.
It will be some considerable time yet before SD channels on Freeview are closed down, there are far too many SD only sets still in use.
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Steve Donaldson10:12 PM
Chris.SE: Thanks for the link Chris. It's a shame it's not built in to the DVB standard as it would seem a useful feature which produce the sensible result of having BBC One HD on LCN1, BBC Two HD on LCN2 and so on, now that the programming of SD and HD are identical.
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