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.
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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Sunday, 13 October 2013
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
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David Hey8:28 PM
Hi, I am having poor reception on Channel 60 (ITV) recently (last week or so and not just poor weather) also tonight (footy England Poland breaking up). BBC on other channel is strong. Why is ITV so weak? Pointing at Oxford from HP180sa recommended nearest transmitter
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Tom G10:05 PM
Agree with David Hey, also in Aylesbury area and channel 60 is very poor, been like this for around a week. My Tv has a signal diagnostic which is showing signal strength at 100% but quality jumping up and down, but around 50%. Surely something is wrong? Or some awful interference!
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Wednesday, 16 October 2013
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Henry Richardson12:46 PM
Chipping Norton
I have been experiencing poor or no reception for about a week on ITV1,2 and 4 and channel 4 and film 4. BBC is fine.My postcode is OX7 5BA. Are there any problems you know of. I have re-tuned my TV a few times but it makes no difference.
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Henry's: mapH's Freeview map terrainH's terrain plot wavesH's frequency data H's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 19 October 2013
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Pete A10:34 PM
Banbury
Since last Friday I have lost all the channels except those in the first multiplex, all the BBC channels. I have cleared my channels and re-tuned my TV many times but I am still not able to retrieve the programs I once had. My region is OX16. Does anyone know of any problems?
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Sunday, 20 October 2013
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Algernon Black11:50 AM
Cheltenham
Thank you for the offer of further help. My postcode is GL54 4EB, my house is 752 feet above sea level and the aerial is 30 feet higher, on the roof. I have been through the routine of line of sight and there is nothing in the way, I have direct line of sight to the Oxford transmitter. I have now decided to give up and this week I am having a dish installed on which I shall watch FREESAT. Further email exchanges with ARQUIVER have resulted in "There is nothing wrong with our transmitter" which only proves what a shambles FREEVIEW has become.
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Michael3:00 PM
Algernon Black: 99 times out of 100 there is no problem with the transmitter, and since I don't see any widespread complaints about the Oxford transmitter on here, what evidence do you have for there being a problem at Arquiva's transmitter?
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Algernon Black5:35 PM
Well Michael, mine and others reception is awful. More than half of the programmes transmitted are at half power and they are the ones that fail first but recently we have had BBC 1 failing as well. Yes it is weather related but why can't Arquiver up the power to overcome the continued failures? You say no one else has a problem, well read ALL of the preceding posts, they ALL refer to Oxford. FREEVIEW doesn't work, it is awful and I note that OFCOM want to move it all to new frequencies thus requiring everyone to get a new aerial with even more retuning. Michael, it is a shambles.
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Mazbar5:44 PM
Algernon Black: when you had your aerial checked what did the engineer say about the condition of your aerial and signal ?
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Algernon Black6:44 PM
Gentlemen, as I sit here drinking a glass of white wine I wonder if the current problem with OXFORD is that the transmitter is operating in accordance with its specification. In which case the spec is wrong. The messages on this list confirm the problems and I now doubt they will ever be resolved.
DTV is a failure. As for my aerials they are only 3 years old and every other house in my village has had the same problems this last month.
As I said previously I am moving over to FREESAT so Oxford will be just a bad dream.
Have you all commented on the OFCOM strategy document? See my comment dated 8 October.
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