Full Freeview on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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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Friday, 4 May 2012
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jb388:53 PM
Tigminor: Yes, you have nothing to worry about as you are not missing anything, matter of fact I carried out a check on my own TV earlier on and found that "TV Stars" was one of three new channels found, and of course with the "coming soon" caption appearing (albeit sluggishly) exactly as you have described.
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Saturday, 5 May 2012
Well a different problem last night, although similar time. My bbc3 was freezing even though bbc 1 & 2 were fine.
I also noted the comments about C62. according to the list and my set up C62 is active with the '5's, ITV3 etc.
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Sunday, 13 May 2012
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Stephen10:37 PM
Lost all my Freeview channels from the Oxford transmitter today on both my stbs, anybody else having problems?
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Monday, 14 May 2012
Sunday, 20 May 2012
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Matt Crowther9:06 PM
Aylesbury
Only problem, Stephen, I might have channel wise is that all my Channel 4 lot are missing from my EPG for a week from now -C4, +1, More4, E4 etc.
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Friday, 25 May 2012
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Chris James12:41 PM
The reception on BCA/PSB1(Ch1,2,7,9,70,71,80,81 etc)has deteriorated significantly over the past three or four weeks with frame freezing and sometimes disappearing completely yet had been working very well before that.All other stations come through perfectly.I have tried a different set-top box and the problem persists.
I know that the aerial position is not ideal (too low) but, as I said earlier, everything has been working perfectly until recently. Any suggestions?
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Mark Fletcher5:45 PM
Halifax
Chris James.As you did not leave a full postcode or nearby location as such,my only suggestion is to look up Single Frequency Interference,that is one possible cause.
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Sunday, 27 May 2012
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mst11:36 AM
St. Albans
@Chris James
BBCA is by far the strongest signal from Oxford, so you are either picking up the mux from somewhere else or getting signal overload
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Wednesday, 6 June 2012
My freeview plays through my PS3, but the channels were freezing and jittery, so I put the aerial connection in to my TV and all was fine, then after 2 days, I have the same problem, virtually no picture on all channels. This has been like it for about 2 weeks now and I have no idea how to fix this, it would appear the signal in the spare room is fine, yet both TV's have run from the same connection for years.
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Monday, 11 June 2012
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Martyn7:50 PM
Buckingham
I've had Freeview for several years with no trouble, using a Humax PVR9150. I've now lost all the BBC channels and have tried resets and rescans etc with manual tuning on Ch53 but no channels are found. I also have a Freeview HD tuner in my TV and when I connect the aerial directly to this, I still don't get the BBC channels but I get perfect BBC and ITV HD reception. So the conclusion is that it's not the aerial or the PVR that's at fault. Can anyone enlighten me please? I'm on the Oxford transmitter at MK18 2QP.
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