VARIATION TO THE BORDERTOWN COMMUNITY RADIO

LICENCE AREA PLAN

DECEMBER 2001

COMMUNITY RADIO LICENCE AREA PLAN - BORDERTOWN

VARIATION - DECEMBER 2001

The Australian Broadcasting Authority hereby varies the licence area plan (LAP) for community radio in the Bordertown area of South Australia, determined on 27 August 1996, under subsection 26(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

The variation comprises the addition of four technical specifications for the community radio broadcasting service designated by the service licence numbers SL10373 and a variation of the existing technical specification, as follows:

The technical specifications applicable to this service are set out at Schedule 1 and Attachments 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 ,1.6 and 1.7 of this instrument.

The area to which these commercial radio broadcasting service are to be available is described at Attachment 1.1 to this instrument.

(Determined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority on 6 December 2001)

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 One of the Bordertown Community LAP prior to this variation is reproduced below.

SCHEDULE ONE
Licence Area Plan : Bordertown Radio August 1996

Licence Area : BORDERTOWN RA1

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

SCHEDULE ONE
Licence Area Plan : Bordertown Radio - December 2001

Licence Area : BORDERTOWN RA1

Attachment 1.1.1

LICENCE AREA FOR SERVICE LICENCE NUMBER: SL10373

BORDERTOWN COMMUNITY RADIO

The licence area, in terms of areas defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics at the Census of 6 August 1996, is: 

Note: 

Standard terminology used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics: 

 (CD)  =   Collection District

(DC)  =   District Council

 (M)  =   Municipality

Attachment 1.2.1

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Bordertown Radio – December 2001 

Category : Community

General Area Served : Bordertown (SA)

Service Licence Number : SL10373

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10005716

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Western Drive 2 km south of Bordertown

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing

Reference 54 480100 5979800

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 106.1 MHz

Polarisation Vertical

Maximum antenna height 60 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Attachment 1.3

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Bordertown Radio - December 2001 

Category : Community

General Area Served : Keith (SA)

Service Licence Number : SL10373

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS1584002

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Broadcasting site  Sugarloaf Hill

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing

Reference 54 439505 6012003

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 104.5 MHz

Polarisation Vertical

Maximum antenna height 18 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Attachment 1.4

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Bordertown Radio - December 2001 

Category : Community

General Area Served : Naracoorte (SA)

Service Licence Number : SL10373

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10010714

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Council & CFS Site  Smith Street East  Naracoorte

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing

Reference 54 479050 5910300

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 89.7 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 20 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Attachment 1.5

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Bordertown Radio - December 2001 

Category : Community

General Area Served : Kingston SE (SA)

Service Licence Number : SL10373

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10010729

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : 16 km north of Robe
Mt Benson

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing

Reference 54 394200 5900600

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 92.9 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 50 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Attachment 1.6

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Bordertown Radio - December 2001 

Category : Community

General Area Served : Padthaway (SA)

Service Licence Number : SL10373

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS3439001

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : CMTS site  Beeamma  Parsons Road   Padthaway

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing

Reference 54 456847 5948655

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 98.5 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 30 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Attachment 1.7

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Bordertown Radio - December 2001 

Category : Community

General Area Served : Tintinara (SA)

Service Licence Number : SL10373

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10010726

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : District Council of Coonalpyn Downs  Trig Point  Coonalpyn Hill

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing

Reference 54 414300 6040350

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 102.9 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 30 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-