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
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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Monday, 23 April 2012
Stephen my question also.
jb38 I have a signal strength meter do I just plug it in the aerial input or output.
My unit is Thompson recording system. The problem also occurs on another set with a built in decoder.
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John Cook10:19 AM
On first change over to digital from Rowridge transmitter every thing was fine and all channels had high signal strength.
For the last three days I have had low or no signal for five channels. Retuning does not pick up the channels or picks them up with low signal strength. A broken up picture appears and the the screen goes blank with a heading " Channel not tuned.
Digital UK tell me the reason is due to work being carried out on the transmitter and they only get progress reports once a week they do not know when the work will be completed. They also advise not to retune whilst the work is being carried out for fear of losing channels.
How will we know when it is safe to retune ?
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John Cook: The answer to your question is that you won't which is why they advised you not to retune!
You started off with one problem; picture break-up or no signal. Now you have two potential problems: picture break-up/no signal and the set not being tuned.
Digital UK publishes engineering works at www.digitaluk.co.uk/engineeringworks
Rowridge digital TV is currently "liable to interruption".
If you have a manual tune option, then try using it. Refer to the Rowridge page for details of UHF channel numbers.
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Keith4:43 PM
I have recently lost the entire C62 (802.0MHz) multiplex on the Oxford transmitter (from Friday 20th April).
That means ITV3, ITV2+1, 5*, 5USA, Quest, The Zone, Channel5+1, CITV (plus others) are all showing NO or BAD SIGNAL.
They are still down today (Monday 23rd April).
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robert7:17 PM
Join the club, mine has been coming and going at the same time of night for several months. I will have my monitor to see signal strength tonight.
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Martyn Johnson8:23 PM
Not receiving ITV, Ch4, nor Ch5 since 1500hrs today, 23 April. All other Freeviews are OK.
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N J Wilcock9:16 PM
Witney
Well, I'm 11 miles due west of the Oxford transmitter and reception has been fine on all multiplexes today.
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012
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Keith12:01 AM
"Well, I'm 11 miles due west of the Oxford transmitter and reception has been fine on all multiplexes today."
Yes, it is a strange situation. Although I get "NO or BAD SIGNAL" on all C62 (COM4) Channels from Oxford, my Signal Strength is shown as normal on these Channels (~85%) but Quality is zero.
Since my re-boot, I have lost my EPG on those Channels, too. Re-booting and re-tuning have not restored C62 (COM4) from Oxford.
However, I have a second digi-box, and that is OK on ALL Multiplexes.
On the basis of that, I considered my first digi-box to have developed a fault, although gawd alone know what!
It was searching here, and seeing Stephen AND Robert's reports of similar problems at similar times with this Multiplex from Oxford, made me post.
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Chris S11:02 AM
A good signal strength with bad or no reception sounds very like the effect of an interfering signal .This could be a local radio transmitter.Not nessearily on ch62 (image interference) .Some boxes may suffer this more than others. Or a tv station on the same channel from a nearby region.
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012
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Robert6:54 AM
Isn't it interesting that different people experience the same problem, but we are told not to re-tune etc. Well sorry, how do we put things right, when the problem seems beyond our control.
I was getting an absolutely excellent signal on Channel 62 at 9.10pm last night. I was watching channel 10 (ITV3) turned it to 31 (Fiver US I think, and black screen and no aerial signal. Checked Channel 30 exactly the same, so went back to Channel 10, that too then had the same problem.
I decided to use another digi box, which seemed to work fine, so tonight I will again be looking at around 9 to see what happens. I know electronic equipment can have intermittent issues but I never known it to be scheduled intermittent.
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