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 22/04/2024 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?
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| 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, 9 October 2023
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Chris.SE12:48 AM
Amanda Hitchen: Stu:
it could well be current weather conditions affecting you, they have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter.
The BBC have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - 6th October | Help receiving TV and radio
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Stu8:44 PM
Chris.Se - thanks for that info. Had a suspicion it could be the weather but then started doubting myself as nobody else seemed to be discussing it (here anyway). Still causing issues for me today & tonight. I tried re-tuning as I wanted to check I was up to date channel-wise and also see what else was 'out there'. I know re-tuning when there are such issues is a waste of time and could mess things up but I am happy tinkering! I always do manual re-tunes anyway to avoid issues. I wish manufacturers would add a function whereby you can tell the box which MUXs to tune to and then do an auto-tune only using those, or even have some sort of lookup feature where you simply tell the box which transmitter you use.
Thanks for the BBC link and your time.
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Heather Holmes9:25 PM
Freeview TV gone down again in Banbury.
Night off work again with no TV but still expected to pay a license fee.
Still nobody accepting responsibility or that there is a fault ?......
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Chris.SE10:27 PM
Heather Holmes:
As per my post further up the page, it's current weather conditions -
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Dawn Penman10:31 PM
Cirencester
My near neighbours and myself are having problems with tv reception, picture breaking up and programmes disappearing. Everything has been checked and we have all had problems for the last three days. Is this related to the weather?
GL7 4HJ
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Dawn's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE10:43 PM
Dawn Penman:
Further to my post at the top of the page -
It's current weather conditions affecting you, they have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter.
The BBC and Freeview have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - from 07 October | Help receiving TV and radio
High pressure could affect reception across parts of the UK this week | Freeview
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Saturday, 14 October 2023
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Jody12:24 PM
Since the freeview issues at the weekend, we are still have pixalling on PSB2 channels. Surely this should be back to normal by now. Have never had freeview issues like this before. Dunstable area
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Chris.SE1:09 PM
Jody:
The Tropospheric Ducting conditions this time were quite extreme periodically and only very recently seem to have cleared. There's the possibility according to some predictions that there may be some more middle of next week but not as severe.
IF you retuned at all when your reception was disrupted (be it weather, engineering or faults) then if you had no signal or very badly pixilation, it often just clears your correct tuning. If you were previously correctly tuned, it's never recommended to retune under any of those conditions.
You've posted on the Oxford transmitter page, if it is Oxford you normally get your signals from it may not be the best of reception you get in the Dunstable area but it will depend very much on location. As you haven't given a full postcode I can't check that.
IF you retuned whilst your signals were disrupted by the Tropo, there's also the possibility you may get tuned to an incorrect transmitter with weak signals. There are 4 main transmitters that might be readily received in parts of your area.
If it's Oxford that you are supposed to be receiving, check in your TV Tuning section that you are correctly tuned to Oxford's UHF channels which are C41, C44, C47, C29, C31, & C37.
That's in multiplex order PSB1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB HD, COM4/SDN, COM5/ARQA, COM6/ARQB.
C means channel, if you hover over those numbers it tells you the frequency if you need those.
If you receive the Local multiplex in your locale, that's on C46 in your area.
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Jody6:49 PM
Hi, thanks for the info but haven't done any retuning as I know not to when there are signal issues. Yes we are always tuned into oxford transmitter and normally have very good signal. Just getting pixelling every few minutes on the itv and ch5 channels which are all on psb2 ch44
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Chris.SE7:11 PM
Jody:
Odd, as the tropo should have cleared for now.
Do the obvious checks, make sure your aerial still looks intact and is pointing correctly, your downlead isn't flapping in the wind, and all your coax plugs etc are in correctly. Make sure you don't have any HDMI leads close to your aerial lead or flyleads.
It ought to be safe to retune if nothing else solves the problem. I wonder if you are getting other interference?
Have you had a postcard from https://restoretv.uk ?
You may have a mobile mast nearby now, new/updated operating in the 700 MHz band
Go to the website and put your postcode in https://restoretv.uk /postcards-not-sure/
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