Full Freeview on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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51.790,-1.179 or 51°47'25"N 1°10'46"W

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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 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels

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Which Freeview channels does the Oxford transmitter broadcast?

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C41+ (634.2MHz)	295m	DTG-	100,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) South (Oxford), 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C44- (657.8MHz)	295m	DTG-	100,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west), 71 That’s 60s,
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C47 (682.0MHz)	295m	DTG-	100,000W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South (Oxford), 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -3dB	C29 (538.0MHz)	295m	DTG-8	50,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H -3dB	C37- (601.8MHz)	319m	DTG-8	50,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H -3dB	C31 (554.0MHz)	319m	DTG-8	50,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others
LOX	H -10dB	C46 (674.0MHz)	295m	DTG-12	10,000W
	from 22nd December 2014: 7 That's Oxford,

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 (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	BBCtv_waves
C29								SDN
C31							com7	com7
C37							com8	com8
C41								BBCA
C44								D3+4
C46								_local
C47								BBCB
C49_{tv_off}			C5_waves	C5_waves
C50_{tv_off}						SDN	SDN
C51_{tv_off}							LOX	LOX
C53_{tv_off}		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	+BBCA	+BBCA	+BBCA
C55_{tv_off}					ArqB	ArqB	ArqB	com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}								COM8_{tv_off}
C57_{tv_off}		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
C59_{tv_off}					-ArqA	-ArqA	-ArqA
C60_{tv_off}		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	-D3+4	-D3+4	-D3+4
C62					SDN
C63		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves

_{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 AM/FM 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

Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981	Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Dec 2006	Central Independent Television
Dec 2006-Feb 2009	ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Oxford was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Briantist

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9:16 AM

Steve: The best first step is to try doing a "first time " with the two television sets connected directly to the rooftop . A 1 year old device shouldn't have any problems at all.

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Steve

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9:21 AM

@Brian
*Update* 1 year old TV working fine now after new service , The older TV just wiped it as if was first switch on, fingers crossed.
Thanks for all your.

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Rick Mock
11:43 AM

Brian

Thanks for your.
All sorted and working as you said it would.

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Briantist

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12:40 PM

Steve: No problem, always happy to. I the other TV works.

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Briantist

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12:41 PM

Rick Mock: Thank you.

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Cathy
7:51 PM

Hi,
We're in , OX3 at the top of the hill and not far from Beckley . We had great (din't actually need an at all!) and reasonable reception through an indoor area (at height on top of the wardrobe). We couldn't get ITV very well so we switched to terrestrial for that.
At the first stage of , most of the BBC disappeared, then 2 weeks later at the second stage, BBC4 and Sky news also disappeared - leaving us with just Yesterday, Al Jazeera and some home shopping channels!! We've retuned many times, with and without the aerial connected, new installation option, tried removing etc as advised but haven't got the BBC channels back (I think we got ITV4 - why 4 ? What happened to ITV1, 2 and 3?)

We have another TV downstairs connected to an external aerial and that is fine, so I presume it's not an issue with the signal being too strong.

Is it worth buying another indoor aerial to try? We are so disappointed - we thought things would improve not get worse!

Or do we need a second outdoor aerial to run a second TV?

Any much appreciated

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Ian

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8:23 PM

Hi Cathy
1st of all have you tried moving the tv from upstairs to downstairs and doing a re-tune. If all appear then you know it's a problem with upstairs .

Then figure out how the signal goes upstairs. If there is a take it out you will not need it in ox3

I work round headington all the time and a lot of people are having problems just because they are not retuning properly or because the signal power has increased

I all goes well
Ian 123 aerials

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lisa steward
9:33 PM

i have lost all my i live in aylesbury hp197re and have tried to re tune the sets they are both flat screen hd tvs all i have is on the screen can you please advise why this is. i have checked with my neighbours and they are the same. is it a signal problem with the

thanks
lisa

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Steve P

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11:22 AM

lisa steward: No reported faults, and you should have a strong .

It is possible to have TOO STRONG a signal. Are you using any ? Try without if so.

You could phone a LOCAL fitter, who would know any local issue

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Chris.SE

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11:34 AM

Hi Lisa: as Steve P has already said you may have too strong a and should take any / out of circuit.
But the other thing you ought to do is a complete new installation/factory reset first with the unplugged - this clears ALL previous settings, & then repeat that with the aerial plugged in.

If you and your neighbours are in a block of flats using a communial aerial you will probably need to get onto the landlords to get it sorted.

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