Licence Area Plan Taree (Radio) Variation December 1998 (Cth)

VARIATION TO

LICENCE AREA PLAN

TAREE

(RADIO)

DECEMBER 1998

LICENCE AREA PLAN

TAREE

VARIATION

The Australian Broadcasting Authority hereby varies the licence area plan (LAP) for radio services in the Taree area of New South Wales, determined on 8 October 1998, under subsection 26(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

The variation comprises the variation of technical specifications for a community radio service designated by the technical specification number TS10008623, as set out below:

Category of Service	Service Licence No:	Transmitter Specification No:	Technical Specifications	General Area Served by Transmitter	Status
Community	SL1823	TS10008623	See attachment 2.2.1	Taree	Vary

The technical specification set out in Schedule Two at Attachment 2.2 of the licence area plan is deleted.

The varied technical specification now applicable to this service is set out in Schedule Two at Attachment 2.2.1 to this instrument.

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.

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

Schedules Two of the Taree LAP prior to this variation is reproduced below:

SCHEDULE TWO

Licence Area Plan: Taree - (Radio) - October 1998

Licence Area  -  TAREE RA2

Service Category	Status *	Frequency *	Service Licence No	Technical Specification No	Attach No	Area Served
Community	Licensed	104.5 MHz	SL1823	TS10008623	2.2	Taree
Community	Available	101.3 MHz	SL1823	TS10008658	2.3	Elands

SCHEDULE TWO

Licence Area Plan: Taree - (Radio) - October 1998 - as varied December 1998

Licence Area  -  TAREE RA2

Service Category	Status *	Frequency *	Service Licence No	Technical Specification No	Attach No	Area Served
Community	Licensed	104.5 MHz	SL1823	TS10008623	2.2.1	Taree
Community	Available	101.3 MHz	SL1823	TS10008658	2.3	Elands

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

Attachment 2.2.1

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Taree           

Category :   Community

General Area Served :   Taree (NSW)

Service Licence Number :   SL1823

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number :   TS10008623

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location :   Careys Mountain

Australian Map Grid :   Zone      Easting      Northing

Reference   56          443797     6475005

Site Tolerance :   Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode   VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency :   104.5 MHz

Polarisation   Mixed

Maximum antenna height   40 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Bearing or Sector (Clockwise direction)	Maximum ERP
At all angles of azimuth	5 kW