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.
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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 |
Local transmitter maps
Oxford Freeview Oxford DAB Oxford TV region BBC South (Oxford) Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Oxford transmitter area
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Sunday, 11 September 2011
OXFORD transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 15:41 on 08 Sep to 16:14 on 08 Sep BBC ONE Weak Signal from 16:31 on 08 Sep to 17:06 on 08 Sep [BBC] Over the next week Oxford main transmitter: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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OXFORD transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 15:41 on 08 Sep to 16:14 on 08 Sep BBC ONE Weak Signal from 16:31 on 08 Sep to 17:06 on 08 Sep [BBC] Over the next week Oxford main transmitter: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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Monday, 12 September 2011
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John J6:18 AM
Aylesbury
Briantist. My postcode is HP21 9TZ. It's mainly ITV3 which is unwatchable and even sometimes shows no signal at all. It used to be fine so I have to assume it's something to do with the switchover as all my other channels are ok. I've got a new aerial, leads etc. I'll wait until the switchover is finished before I try anything else. Thanks for your response.
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OXFORD transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 16:31 on 08 Sep to 17:06 on 08 Sep BBC ONE Weak Signal from 15:41 on 08 Sep to 16:14 on 08 Sep [BBC]
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OXFORD transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 16:31 on 08 Sep to 17:06 on 08 Sep BBC ONE Weak Signal from 15:41 on 08 Sep to 16:14 on 08 Sep [BBC]
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Mike Dimmick12:32 PM
John J: Looking back across your old posts I think you may have gone overboard on the aerial, and something's overloading. If you have a booster, take it out. Try adding an attenuator.
If this *is* your problem it's about to get a whole lot worse, starting with Wednesday's power-up of the BBC multiplex.
Do also check that your box hasn't selected Sandy Heath on C31 rather than Oxford C51. Some boxes have an automatic overnight retune feature that happily overwrites a careful manual tuning of the correct channels!
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OXFORD transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 15:41 on 08 Sep to 16:14 on 08 Sep BBC ONE Weak Signal from 16:31 on 08 Sep to 17:06 on 08 Sep [BBC]
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OXFORD transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 15:41 on 08 Sep to 16:14 on 08 Sep BBC ONE Weak Signal from 16:31 on 08 Sep to 17:06 on 08 Sep [BBC]
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011
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Nicholas3:41 PM
Luton
Hello Brian,
You used to show potential conflicts for co-channel interference, but this has now gone. I am in a multi-transmitter area and have two wideband aerials, one pointing towards Oxford, and the other to Sandy Heath. When Oxford switches tomorrow and later this month, I can see several conflicts as follows (some are existing, which already block signals from both the relevant transmitters):
14th September:
ch29: ArqB Oxford / D London
ch31: SDN Sandy / HD London
ch34: BBCA Oxford / C London
ch48: ArqA Oxford / ArqB Sandy
ch68: 2 Oxford / A Hemel
28th September:
ch55: ArqB Oxford / 2 Hemel
ch59: ArqA Oxford / B Hemel / D3+4 Luton
ch62: SDN Oxford / C Hemel
Could you please restore this facility, as it's really useful to see which signal is the strongest; for example both the Hemel and London signals are strong enough to cancel out Oxford at the moment, even though I have no aerial for London.
Talking of signal strength, both the London and Sandy signals are strong enough on BBCA / 1 and D3+4 / 2 to be picked up on the Oxford aerial, without signal break up!
Regards,
Nicholas
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