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 (183°)
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
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012
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Simon J Bolton1:01 PM
Aylesbury
Thanks for that jb38. There is no booster connected, but here's a quick update: last night, having sat through 90 minutes of heavily pixellated picture and intermittent sound, an audible 'pop' was heard from the TV (similar to the sound heard from an earthing spark when connecting car battery booster cables) after which the picture and sound quality was excellent. We then threw caution to the wind and did another first-time installation and the tuner returned 171 channels, including some we didn't even know existed, like Argos TV and God TV.
Then, this morning, we had the BBC channels but no sound or picture on ITV channels ... then BBC News 24 on Ch 80 started playing up again...
Frankly, we're fed up with all this and we are going to return the TV. We KNOW there is nothing wrong with the transmitter, the aerial, the co-ax cable or anything else and the TV sometimes picks up channels and sometimes doesn't without us doing anything more than turning it on. It has also developed a high-pitched whisling sound on power-up which wasn't there last week.
What I find most frustrating is with all the technology available it still comes down to having to haul the TV to a neighbour's to try their aerial and scouring the interwebnet to try and find a website for information. I cannot find a phone number to call for help and to be honest if we rang a TV repair company they'd just say we need a new aerial at some ridiculously exorbitant price and we'd be expected to believe them. Bring back valves! At least you could se when they weren't working...
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jb389:13 PM
Simon J Bolton: Well, although fault symptoms such as you have described can in many cases indicate an intermittent connection fault on the aerial where the coax is joined into it, however when this coupled to the peculiar noise you hear on power up and something which is most likely coming from high frequency transformer in the power supply and usually when some partial short circuit is overloading it, then this does indicate that your set is defective.
If you only purchased it in May then obviously its still well inside the statutory guarantee period, and therefore I would not hesitate about returning it to wherever it was purchased and mentioning what you have in your posting regarding the noise, I would "not" advise mentioning anything about bad reception as that will immediately trigger suspicion about your installation being at fault.
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
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Paul8:21 AM
A professional aerial installer could test your aerial. They might charge for this service. Testing the TV at a neighbour's house is free.
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Monday, 19 November 2012
Me too. Just North of Banbury and I lost signal on Sunday afternoon; it's still not back.
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Tuesday, 20 November 2012
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Paul8:30 AM
Dave, are you sure you're using the Oxford transmitter ( BBC South Oxford, ITV Meridian )?
As far as I can tell, the Oxford transmitter is working OK.
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Well, I thought I was. I'll ask my neighbours, they're pointed in the same direction. Of course, I haven't actually checked to make sure no one has nicked the aerial. 8)
Hmm, I wonder if it is an aerial thing? Both my Media Centers (I don't have a FreeviewTV) get no signal. I'll check the loft box and the aerial in the morning.
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Hmm, it gets weirder. Both machines have a signal, of sorts, but neither can tune into any station, citing a weak signal. I've adjustable attenuators inline (bought when the power went up) but with or without them it's the same.
I'll continue investigating.
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Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Paul - in case you were curious, it's the aerial splitter in the loft. A passive one, but still it failed. I've a new one ordered.
The signal to the splitter is fine (checked with TV from next door), but too strong without the splitter and/or attenuators.
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Thursday, 22 November 2012
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Paul8:08 AM
Hello, Dave.
Thanks for telling us.
I'm please that you've nearly fixed it.
Paul.
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Friday, 30 November 2012
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Nick8:08 AM
Anyone having trouble in the Edlesborough/Eaton Bray area? About a month ago we started getting bad reception on BBC channels through our Humax Freeview box. At the same time, BBC through the freeview TV was fine. Then suddenly yesterday it seems all channels both through the Humax Freeview box and the TV freeview are really bad. Unwatchable. Ariel seems ok. Just reinstalled channels on the Humax, but no real improvement. (51.8650,-0.5834)
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