[en] The distributions of particle-hole El-transitions in ¹⁶O in the 0-60 MeV energy range are studied in the framework of the self-consistent model taking into account the one-particle continuum. The separable effective interactions are constructed from the shell model potential using the consistency condition which follows from the translational invariance. Systematic calculations of radiative strength functions for L=1-4 are performed. The location of resonances and their escape widths are determined. Isotopic structure of the distributions is studied and the energy-weighted sum rules are calculated. The results obtained are compared both with experimental data and other theoretical calculations. It is shown that the simple self-consistent model employed in the present work describes the qualitative characteristics of observed distributions as well as other models with the more sophisticated effective interactions