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 04/11/2024 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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Monday, 16 September 2013
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Paul1:02 PM
OK. Thanks. So Oxford local DAB should not be affected this week by the engineering work. We'll see what happens.
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Thursday, 19 September 2013
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rob8:55 PM
Birmingham
What are they doing to oxford tv transmitter??? seems alot of work going on gone on too long!
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Tuesday, 24 September 2013
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Algernon Black9:27 AM
Once again Freeview has failed due to a bit of fog.
Last evening all channels were off for most of the time
even BBC1, as for 10 and 38 they are still off this morning.
Will we have to suffer this for ever? Can't they increase the transmitter power to overcome this failure. Prior to the full introduction of digital we were promised weather related interference would be ended!
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Saturday, 28 September 2013
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Patrick Brennan9:37 AM
Swindon
We live in Highworth (Wilts) and take our Freeview signal from the Oxford transmitter and have been suffering a frequent and persistent loss of signal for the last two weeks, as have others in our neighbourhood. Even tried fitting the at800 filter in case some 4G work may be impacting our signal - It made no difference.
Last night was particularly bad with significant loss of signal for long periods during many popular programmes. Loss was apparent at times across most Mux groups although not necessarily at the same time. Problem is still there this morning althought this web site is saying that our Oxford tramsmitter has no reported problem.
Please - Can someone please advise what is or could be the source of the problem (have already tried recommended system actions at this end). I can only assume that it must be the transmitter in some way - if not actual work taking place, could it be down on power?
Even before the full switchover to digital our signal performance was rarely this bad.
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Mark9:49 AM
Patrick Brennan: Good Morning We Also live in Highworth and have spent the last 2 hours trying to sort out what may be the problem. We have had this once before and this tied into the atmospheric conditions and fog and humidity seemed to be the problem last time . I Have just found this article on the freeview pagewhich was put up on the 24th sep high pressure is affecting the signal in some areas. Fingers crossed that this is the problem and not 4G. Tuesday 24 Sept: high pressure weather system may be causing interference | Freeview
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Quinnicus11:41 AM
Swindon
Hey all
+1 for Highworth as well !
Just done a full re-scan of channels and all is now working (fingers crossed)
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Phil Costigan12:31 PM
Freeview aerial chiseldon. Fringe area but usually good reception. Poor all last week and no signal yesterday. Particularly bad 7.00 am and 6 pm.
Could it be low power or eng works ?
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pikpilot1:58 PM
Swindon
Like the people above, I found that channel 44 (5+1) and others disappeared soon after 6pm last night. Further investigation showed that both RF 50 and RF 59 were down to a very low level so eliminating all programmes multiplexed on COM 4 and COM 5. Deeper investigation showed it was not a weather related problem as there was no sign of signal strength reduction on other frequencies. That just leaves the cause as power reduction at the transmitter or someone had realigned the antennae on the mast. Perhaps the authority would like to comment now, and next time put up a post when a problem occurs rather than just leaving up the default "no problems" message.
It was still the same when I went out at 9am but was back to normal when I returned soon after 1pm.
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Quinnicus2:50 PM
Swindon
Me again.
Mux's COM4 and COM5 having big problems from Oxford Transmitter. No signal at all. Other Mux's are fine.
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Colin Freemantle2:50 PM
Swindon
Hello. Like many posts above, many people in Purton are experiencing the same problem of loss of signal often when foggy conditions prevail as mentioned elsewhere. According to the map we are in a fringe area, but when I retune my TV I can receive Camb and Bucks (Look East) and London signal without problem. We have a TV with an aerial pointing at the Mendip (HTV) Transmitter, and never had a problem no matter what the weather. I suggest that those of you having problems turn their aerial around 180 degrees and try the Mendip transmitter.
On my TV I have two indicators, Signal strength, which was at the maximum of 10, and Signal Quality which was less than 2. Does this support the power reduction theory?
Looking at the map of the transmision area, parts of both Highworth and Purton look to be in a 'shadow', the white areas on the map. In Purtons' case this is probably Blunsdon Hill, though why tranmitters much further away still function OK is beyond me.
Like many others I find the silence from the transmitter authorities, frustrating.
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