Licence Area Plan Coober Pedy Community Radio February 2004 (Cth)

LICENCE AREA PLAN

Coober Pedy Community Radio

Australian Broadcasting Authority
Canberra

February 2004

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Licence Area Plan – Coober Pedy Community Radio – February 2004

DETERMINATION

The Australian Broadcasting Authority hereby makes this plan for community radio broadcasting services in the Coober Pedy area of South Australia, under subsection 26(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (‘the Act’).

One community radio broadcasting service is to be made available in the area described at Attachment 1.1 to this Determination with the use of broadcasting services bands.  The characteristics, including technical specifications, of the service that is to be available in the area described at Attachment 1.1 is set out in Schedule One and Attachment 1.2 to this determination.

(Determined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority on 5 February 2004)

SCHEDULES

Each of the Schedules sets out:

• the category of each of the services that are to be available in that area (column one);

• the status of the service (column two) does not form part of the licence area plan decision and is included for reference only;

• the frequency for each transmitter (column three) does not form part of the licence area plan decision and is included for reference only;

• the service licence number which has been allocated to the service, if appropriate (column four);  N/A = Not Applicable, as the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 only requires service licences for Commercial and Community services;

• the number of transmitters required to transmit the service;

• the transmitter specification number which has been allocated to each transmitter (column five);

• the identifying number of the attachment where the technical specifications for each transmitter are described (column six).  (Each set of technical specifications referred to in the Schedules is an attachment to this determination); and

• the general area served by each transmitter (column seven).

Status Column

Licensed:         service is already licensed

Available:        new licence available for allocation

Proposed:        transmitter for existing broadcasting service licence

Alternative:      alternative channel proposed for licensed service

Reserved:capacity reserved for a national or community service in accordance with Ministerial notification

Frequency Column

• the frequency shown is the centre frequency of the channel.

The information in the frequency column is provided as additional information to the licence area plan and is accurate as at the time of publication.

SCHEDULE ONE

Licence Area Plan : Coober Pedy Community Radio – February 2004

Licence Area : COOBER PEDY RA1

Service Category	Status	Frequency	Service Licence No	Technical Specification No	Attach No	Area Served
Community	Proposed	104.5 MHz	SL1150823	TS10009790	1.2	Coober Pedy

Attachment 1.1

LICENCE AREA – COOBER PEDY COMMUNITY RA1

SERVICE LICENCE NUMBER: SL1150823

The licence area, in terms of areas defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics at the Census of 5 August 2001, is: 

Area Description

Coober Pedy (DC)

Note: 

Standard terminology used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics: 

(DC)    =         District Council

Attachment 1.2

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Coober Pedy Community Radio – February 2004

Category :  Community

General Area Served :  Coober Pedy (SA)

Service Licence Number :  SL1150823

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number :             TS10009790

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location :  Coober Pedy Area School SA

Australian Map Grid :  Zone    Easting            Northing

Reference  53       476032           6790470

Site Tolerance :  Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode :                  VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency :  104.5 MHz

Polarisation :  Vertical

Maximum antenna height :  35 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Bearing or Sector (Clockwise direction)	Maximum ERP
At all angles of azimuth	100 W