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Full Freeview on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

51.790,-1.179 or 51°47'25"N 1°10'46"W

OX3 9SS

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.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C41+ (634.2MHz)	295m	DTG-	100,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) South (Oxford), 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 16 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C44- (657.8MHz)	295m	DTG-	100,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west),
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C47 (682.0MHz)	295m	DTG-	100,000W
	56 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 109 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -3dB	C29 (538.0MHz)	295m	DTG-8	50,000W
	20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! movies action, 46 Channel 5 +1, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 CBS Reality, 74 Dave ja vu, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 89 ITV4 +1, 203 CITV, 208 Pop Player, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, plus 15 others
COM5 ArqA	H -3dB	C37- (601.8MHz)	319m	DTG-8	50,000W
	11 Sky Arts, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 pick, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 57 Smithsonian Channel, 60 Drama +1, 70 Quest +1, 75 Yesterday +1, 83 Together TV, 233 Sky News, plus 9 others
COM6 ArqB	H -3dB	C31 (554.0MHz)	319m	DTG-8	50,000W
	12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 71 Quest Red +1, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 88 Classic Hits, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 19 others
LOX	H -10dB	C46 (674.0MHz)	295m	DTG-12	10,000W
	from 22nd December 2014: 7 Thats Oxford,

DTG-8 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	BBCtv_waves
C29								SDN
C31							com7	com7
C37							com8	com8
C41								BBCA
C44								D3+4
C46								_local
C47								BBCB
C49_{tv_off}			C5_waves	C5_waves
C50_{tv_off}						SDN	SDN
C51_{tv_off}							LOX	LOX
C53_{tv_off}		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	+BBCA	+BBCA	+BBCA
C55_{tv_off}					ArqB	ArqB	ArqB	com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}								COM8_{tv_off}
C57_{tv_off}		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
C59_{tv_off}					-ArqA	-ArqA	-ArqA
C60_{tv_off}		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	-D3+4	-D3+4	-D3+4
C62					SDN
C63		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves

_{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

Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981	Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Dec 2006	Central Independent Television
Dec 2006-Feb 2009	ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Oxford was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Comments

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Adrian Crafer
12:17 PM

Is there a known problem with Pace DT210F not being able to do 2k and 8k at the same time. It does not appear to be listed on your guide as one with a problem.

I have just rescanned all my fathers equipment following the first phase of the change over and the set with the Pace unit fails to receive 53+, therefore no BBC .

Yes I did do a full reset including a down and a no . It does not have a manual scan as far as I can see so I cannot force the issue.

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Mike Dimmick

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12:28 PM

Adrian Crafer: It is on UK's list at http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf .

Sorry, it's new box time for that one. See
Digital Switchover UK - Pace
for Pace's information.

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Peter
12:42 PM

Well - the first day has arrived today. For weeks I've been turning off those Banner messages that keep popping up at the bottom of my screen telling me to "retune on the 14th or you may loose some of your ".
So at 0830 I dutifully started the 20 minute search on my old Nokia On-Digital box - and lost all of the BBC channels.....
Luckily I was watching BBC1 analogue at the time, when the local was running; right at the end he says "Retune your set.."
etc etc "...after mid-day." Hang on I thought, 'After mid-day'? Why has not one of all the messages I've seen and heard over the last month made any reference to this before?

Reschedule rest of day and let my two elderly neighbors know I wont now be coming round at 1030 and 1130 to retune their boxes for them.

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Briantist

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1:24 PM

Peter : Most ONdigital boxes are on the won't work any more list - see TVs and boxes that do not support the 8k-mode | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .

See the Switchover starts in the Oxford area | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page for all the various retune timings.

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Mike Dimmick

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1:25 PM

Peter: If you are using the itself, and you must be if you had before started, works were completed by 6am. Some of the transmitters take longer as they get the main transmitter sorted out first, then move on to the relays.

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Briantist

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1:28 PM

Nigel T: Please see Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .

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Tom Thomas
1:33 PM
Aylesbury

Have 3 seperate high aerials

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Briantist

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1:35 PM

Richard Daqrke: As above, starts Wednesday 28th September 2011.

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Briantist

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1:50 PM

Tom Thomas: can be very problematic, and having more than one is more or less crazy. I would also see Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .

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Steve
4:18 PM

I am in Aylesbury (so prob the fringes of coverage) and I have lost all except 10 BBC ones I have re tuned and adjusted boosters etc will I need to my Ariel or just keep my fingers crossed for when they boost on the 28th?

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