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 09/09/2024 Screen may go black 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 |
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, 9 October 2011
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Chris.SE4:39 PM
Jonathan: If you've got sufficient spare cable in the loft to trim and remake conections if needed, then just put some coax connectors on instead of F type. If there isnt't enough, you can get F-Coax convertors which should be a lot cheaper than more attenuators.
Also, see it you can check your old cable for continuity and shorts.
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David Pinfold8:12 PM
Banbury
Jonathan - I assume you have an aerial socket plate on the wall. If so I have found some of these cheap plates give very poor connection when installing them around my house. In one case I gave up and fitted a F plug face plate & made an F plug to standard aerial plug fly lead up which works extremely well.
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Steve P9:52 PM
I think these days best practice is not to have socket plates at all; just to bring the coax through the wall direct into the set.
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Monday, 10 October 2011
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Chris.SE12:53 AM
Jonathan: David Pinfold's comment reminds me to suggest checking all connections for corrosion etc.
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Paul8:04 AM
"jb38
Saturday 8 October 2011 9:03PM
...start to watch the channels rise in the progress bar, then as soon as they get to Mux Ch50 re-connect the aerial and that will exclude anything other than Oxford from loading".
UHF channel 50 is used by Hannington and Sutton COldfield. If you want to store just Oxford, try to reconnect the aerial when the scan is after 50 but before 53. This can be tricky, particularly if the TV dosen't show UHF channel numbers.
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Nicholas10:08 AM
Luton
Hello,
Since switchover, I have had no EPG, but can recieve all 5 muxes. I tried rescanning, but this has not helped. The EPG is still blank, so I'm having to set timer recordings manually, which is time consuming, as I have to scroll to the start and end times in one minute increments!
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Nicholas's: mapN's Freeview map terrainN's terrain plot wavesN's frequency data N's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Steve P1:44 PM
Nicholas - I recall that some boxes use an EPG source that has stopped.
If you post here - or google - your box/TV Model you may see something.
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Alex Wilde2:22 PM
Brackley
I have an icecrypt T5000. On one particular aerial socket, it is only picking up the BBC mux (connected elsewhere in the house it is fine as are the other freeview boxes/TVs in the house)
There are two other aerial sockets in the house and all three are run off a 4 way non-amplified splitter
My postcode is NN13 5PN and the (loft) aerial points to the Oxford transmitter.
I have done the reset advice etc and this freeview box is only connecting to an analogue TV with no other devices connected
Is an amplified (powered) splitter likely to fix this problem or could it be something else ?
Thanks in anticipation
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Alex's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Steve P3:12 PM
Alex - what happens when you use one of the other boxes on the particular aerial socket?
Can you get at the splitter? Try switching the connections and see if the problem moves, or is linked to the down wire.
Remove socket and check for dead beetles etc.
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Hi yes it sounds like this one socket isnt getting enough signal, this could be due to a wiring problem, i.e. poor quality cable or poorly made connections at the end of the cables (the brading should never be touching the centre core!), or simply that splitting the cabel that many ways is killing the signal too much. Try checking your connections first, if that still fails, use a masthead amp such as this (http://tradeworks.tv/acatalog/Vision_4_Way_Variable_10-20dB.html), this can be powered remotely - ideal for lofts with no plugs, or a simple TV amplifier such as this (http://tradeworks.tv/acatalog/Triax_4_Way_TV_Amplifier.html).
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