The symbol shows the location of theTorquay Town (Torbay, England) transmitter which serves1,800 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong,dark green areas are poorer signals. Thoseparts 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 Torquay Town (Torbay, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Torquay Town transmitter broadcast?

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	Vmax	C41+ (634.2MHz)	106m	DTG-	40W
	1 BBC One (SD) South West,2 BBC Two England,9 BBC Four,23 BBC Three,201 CBBC,202 CBeebies,231 BBC News,232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others601 BBC RB 1,700 BBC Radio 1,701 BBC Radio 1Xtra,702 BBC Radio 2,703 BBC Radio 3,704 BBC Radio 4 (FM),705 BBC Radio 5 Live,706 BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra,707 BBC Radio 6 Music,708 BBC Radio 4 Extra,709 BBC Asian Network,710 BBC World Service,711 BBC Bristol(BBC local radio),712 BBC Devon(BBC local radio),713 BBC Cornwall(BBC local radio),714 BBC Somerset(BBC local radio),715 BBC Solent for Dorset(BBC local radio),
PSB2 D3+4	Vmax	C47 (682.0MHz)	106m	DTG-	40W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (West Country),4 Channel 4 (SD)South ads,5 Channel 5,6 ITV 2,10 ITV3,13 E4,14 Film4,15 Channel 4 +1South ads,18 More4,26 ITV4,28 ITVBe,30 E4 +1,35 ITV1 +1 (West Country),71 That's TV 3,
PSB3 BBCB	Vmax	C44 (658.0MHz)	106m	DTG-	40W
	46 5SELECT,57 U&Eden,101 BBC One HD South West,102 BBC Two HD England,103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton),104 Channel 4 HDSouth ads,105 Channel 5 HD,106 BBC Four HD,107 BBC Three HD,203 CBBC HD,204 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview channels?

TheTorquay Town (Torbay, England) mast is apublic service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide thesecommercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! player, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, YAAAS!, Legend, PBS America, POP UP, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's Melody, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Yesterday, U&Drama 1, U&W.

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see thewill there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Torquay Town transmitter?

BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes2.9%
fromPlymouth PL3 5BD, 43km west (261°)
toBBC South West region - 107 masts.

ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes2.9%
fromPlymouth PL7 5BQ, 36km west (259°)
toITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)

How will the Torquay Town (Torbay, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	27 Mar 2019
	BET	BET	BET	BEKT	BEKT
C41	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	+BBCA	BBCA
C44	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCB	BBCB
C47	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C51_{tv_off}	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves

_{tv_off} Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 -more
Table shows multiplexes namessee this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes:+ and- denote 166kHz offset;aerial group are shown asABC/DEKWT
_waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 8 Apr 09 and 22 Apr 09.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4,BBCA,D3+4,BBCB

40W

Local transmitter maps

Torquay Town Freeview Torquay Town AM/FM Beacon Hill TV region BBC South West West Country

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Beacon Hill transmitter area

Apr 1961-Dec 1981	Westward Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South West (TSW)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Westcountry Television
Feb 2004-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. Torquay Town 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?

Radiation patterns withheld

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Friday, 13 November 2015

jb38

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12:18 AM

Nick Burleigh : Ifreception is indeed affected by windy weather, then this strongly suggests that the signal path from thetransmitter passes near to tree lined areas, asFreeview signals as such are not affected by high winds, that is unless said winds result in the occurrence of some form of obstruction to the signal

However, an assessment of the situation is notreally possible without knowledge of the area in question, this preferably provided in the form of a post code or one from nearby, i.e: a shop / Post Office, this info enabling access to details of the transmitter, and also the terrain applicable to the area the transmitter is covering.

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Nick Burleigh
4:59 PM
Torquay

Dear jb38, Thank you for your help. The postcode areas where reports to us have come from are:
TQ2 5UX, TQ2 5TA, TQ2 5TD, TQ2 5SZ, TQ2 5NB, TQ2 5TL, TQ2 5SR, TQ2 5NQ, TQ2 5NA.
There is a clear line of sight from some properties to thetransmitter sited on top of an apartment block about 0.1 miles away. The issue about trees has been looked in to before. One resident who called in anaerial expert fitted an attenuator in case the problem was down tosignal overload where they lived. It didn't solve the problem either.
One of the most qualified aerial fitters in Torbay, Jim Fraser of Jim's Aerials, Torbay has attended the television sets of many complainants across the area and taken readings using meters. He reports that in his professional opinion the problem is clearly down to a fault at the transmitter. It was first noticed after a huge storm that even damaged a main railway line in the locality during February 2013.
He has been most helpful and has left messages with a company called Arqiva who own the transmitter, but they never respond to his calls!!
Jim Fraser has the contract to look after the aerial andsatellite system in the block of flats where the transmitter is sited and has asked the Managers of this building to tell if Arqiva request access to their transmitter on theroof space, just to see if they are doing anything about his calls.
We have been round the houses for so long now and people have been forced to sign up to thecable service operated by Virgin media just to get reliable tv. This is particularly unfair to older people, those with second homes or holiday flatswho just want basicfreeview tv and the Torquay transmitter met their needs perfectly.
Inanalogue days we had excellentreception, even using an indoor or set top aerial pointing to theTorquay town transmitter that opened in the mid eighties when rediffusion announced the closure of their old cable system. It went digital around 2009/10
Hopefully we can find some way of getting hold of the people responsible for this transmitter so they can get it fixed for the local commmunity I work for.

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Sunday, 15 November 2015

jb38

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11:35 AM

Nick Burleigh: Thanks for your reply / update on the situation, the comprehensive nature of having enabled me to carry out a number of checks based on the various post codes given, which has enlightened me as to the nature of the terrain in question, but though one which I feel could well be bit of a nightmare foraerial installers trying to obtain a satisfactory (and consistently stable)signal in a number of the postal code areas mentioned.

As far as signal break up during windy (or possibly other) conditions is concerned, although tests may well have been carried out by the aerial installer at a number of households affected by the problem, however the only way that the actual transmission source can be positively identified as being the reason for same (such as possibly by an iffy feeder tomast connection) is by a non-household based (to avoid possibleinterference) signaltest being carried out using a portable test aerial (e.g: Log periodic in conjunction with a professional signal test meter) at some location where a completely unobstructed "full view" of the TX mast (and slightly under) can be seen.

That said, after having comprehensively studied the location (via Google earth etc) of a number of the properties in question, I'm still inclined to feel that the more likely reason for the problem is connected with that mentioned in my original reply, insomuch, obstruction in the form of trees (or tops of) being blown by the wind,

My reason for thinking along these lines being based on the fact that in many of the postal code areas referred to, the signal is being received at a very low angle in relation to that of the mast due to extremely steep gradient that many of the houses are built on, signals received in a number of properties via skipping across the rooftops of a series of relatively close stacked properties above them, the fact of the mast being so close to the steep gradient making the situation worse.

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Nick Burleigh
7:47 PM
Torquay

Dear jb38,
Thank you for your reply.
You have certainly done a lot of work to offer a possible solution and that is much appreciated.
I have a photograph that was taken when the Managers of some flats in the area had anaerial firm round trying to sort out the problem for their tenants in 2014 and the guy asked me how many other people had problems withreception and asked for access to take the pic from. It shows their communal aerial on the building and thetransmitter. If you are interested I could send it you to confirm or deny your theory about trees.
But I will need an email address as I can't copy and paste a snip or pic on to this form
regards,
Nick
Melville Hill Community Group

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Friday, 11 March 2016

Nick Burleigh
10:00 PM

Thanks for the support from this site following reports about intermittent loss ofreception onfreeview for residents using theTorquay town centrerelay transmitting sration in Devon. After two years of residents loosing their favourite shows in wet and windy the problem has been resolved. This happened because over the new year a local resident who has holiday accommodation managed to get through by telephone call to some on call engineers. The engineers agreed to look at the ailing transmitter. They didn't make excuses like all the other staff that the problem was to do with everybody using faulty aerials or had trees in the way. The engineers agreed there were problems with their transmitting system. A few days later the transmitter went off for a few hours one afternoon. It came back on about 6pm and ever since then no one has complained. It proves that communication between people who rely on small tv stations covering just a few roads or local district has much to be desired since the digital revolution.

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This transmitter has no current reported problems

Which Freeview channels does the Torquay Town transmitter broadcast?

Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview channels?

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Torquay Town transmitter?

How will the Torquay Town (Torbay, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Local transmitter maps

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Beacon Hill transmitter area

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?