Licence Area Plan Mildura/Sunraysia Television and Radio Variation October 2002 (Cth)

VARIATION TO LICENCE AREA PLAN

MILDURA/SUNRAYSIA RADIO

Australian Broadcasting Authority
Canberra

October 2002

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VARIATION TO LICENCE AREA PLAN – MILDURA/SUNRAYSIA – OCTOBER 2002

VARIATION

The Australian Broadcasting Authority has decided to vary the license area plan (LAP) for radio in the Mildura/Sunraysia region, determined in July 1995, under subsection 26(1) and varied in July 1997 under subsection 26(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

The variation comprises a change to the technical specification, as set out below:

Service Category	Status	Frequency	Service Licence No	Technical Specification No	Attach No	Area Served
Community	Delete	89.1 MHz	SL10992	TS10002421	3.3.1	Robinvale

Service Category	Status	Frequency	Service Licence No	Technical Specification No	Attach No	Area Served
Open Narrowcasting	Add	89.1 MHz	N/A	TS10007163	2.10	Mildura

(Determined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority on 10 October 2002)
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).

• 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 date of publication.

For ease of reference, the schedule affected by this variation to the LAP has been updated to reflect the variation to the plan.

Schedule’s two and three of the Mildura/Sunraysia LAP prior to this variation is reproduced below.

SCHEDULE TWO

Licence Area Plan - Mildura/Sunraysia - (Radio) - July 1995

Service Category	Status	Frequency	Service Licence No	Technical Specification No	Attach No	Area Served
National	Licensed Reserved	105.9 MHz	N/A	TS10002411	2.2	Mildura/Sunraysia
National	Licensed Reserved	104.3 MHz	N/A	TS10002412	2.3	Mildura/Sunraysia
National	Licensed Reserved	102.7 MHz	N/A	TS1000413	2.4	Mildura/Sunraysia
National	Proposed Reserved	101.1 MHz	N/A	TS10002414	2.5	Mildura/Sunraysia
Commercial	Available	99.5 MHz	SL010094	TS10002415	2.6	Mildura/Sunraysia
Commercial	Available	97.9 MHz	SL010096	TS10002417	2.7	Mildura/Sunraysia
Commercial	Licensed	1467 kHz	SL010098	TS10002419	2.8	Mildura/Sunraysia
Open Narrowcasting	Available	1359 KHz	N/A	TS10002425	2.9	Mildura

SCHEDULE THREE

Licence Area Plan - Mildura/Sunraysia - (Radio) - July 1995 - as varied July 1997

Service Category	Status	Frequency	Service Licence No	Technical Specification No	Attach No	Area Served
Community	Licensed Available	107.5 MHz 89.1 MHz	SL010092 SL010092	TS10002409 TS10002421	3.2 3.3.1	Mildura Robinvale
Community	Available Available	92.3 MHz 89.9 MHz	SL010097 SL010097	TS10002418 TS10002423	3.7 3.8	Mildura Robinvale

The updated schedule to the LAP affected by this variation as follows:

SCHEDULE TWO

Variation - Licence Area Plan - Mildura/Sunraysia - (Radio) – October 2002

Service Category	Status	Frequency	Service Licence No	Technical Specification No	Attach No	Area Served
National	Licensed Reserved	105.9 MHz	N/A	TS10002411	2.2	Mildura/Sunraysia
National	Licensed Reserved	104.3 MHz	N/A	TS10002412	2.3	Mildura/Sunraysia
National	Licensed Reserved	102.7 MHz	N/A	TS10002413	2.4	Mildura/Sunraysia
National	Licensed Reserved	101.1 MHz	N/A	TS10002414	2.5	Mildura/Sunraysia
Commercial	Licensed	99.5 MHz	SL010094	TS10002415	2.6	Mildura/Sunraysia
Commercial	Licensed	97.9 MHz	SL010096	TS10002417	2.7	Mildura/Sunraysia
Commercial	Licensed	1467 kHz	SL010098	TS10002419	2.8	Mildura/Sunraysia
Open Narrowcasting	Licensed	1359 KHz	N/A	TS1002425	2.9	Mildura
Open Narrowcasting	Licensed	89.1 MHz	N/A	TS100007163	2.10	Mildura

SCHEDULE THREE

Draft Variation - Licence Area Plan - Mildura/Sunraysia - (Radio) – October 2002

Service Category	Status	Frequency	Service Licence No	Technical Specification No	Attach No	Area Served
Community	Licensed	107.5 MHz	SL010092	TS10002409	3.2	Mildura
Community	Available Available	92.3 MHz 89.9 MHz	SL010097 SL010097	TS10002418 TS10002423	3.7 3.8	Mildura Robinvale

Attachment 1.10

VARIATION - LICENCE AREA PLAN : Mildura - October 2002

Category :  Open Narrowcasting

General Area Served :  Mildura (VIC)

Service Licence Number :  N/A

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number :  TS10007163

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location :  Byrne Court Broadcasting Site MILDURA

Australian Map Grid :  Zone               Easting            Northing

Reference  54                   607909           6214975

Site Tolerance :  Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode  VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency:  89.1 MHz

Polarisation:  Horizontal

Maximum antenna height  54 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Bearing or Sector (Clockwise direction)	Maximum ERP
At all angles of azimuth	60W

Special Condition:

The coverage of this transmission is described as that area within a radius of 12 kilometres measured from a point with the following AMG co-ordinates: Zone: 54; Easting: 607909; Northing: 6214975. This point is the same as the transmitter location.

This transmission is permitted within the defined coverage area. The transmitter may be established at an alternative site to the nominal site only within this area. A change in site from the nominal site is to be in accordance with the Change of Transmitter Site Procedure of the ABA’s Technical Planning Guidelines, and is not to result in a maximum field strength beyond the defined area in excess of that which would have been provided at the specified power and pattern from the nominal site.