Licence Area Plan - Cairns (Radio) - Variation - September 2004

VARIATION TO LICENCE AREA PLAN

Cairns
(Radio)

Australian Broadcasting Authority
Canberra
September 2004

© Commonwealth of Australia  September 2004

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VARIATION TO LICENCE AREA PLAN

CAIRNS – SEPTEMBER 2004

The Australian Broadcasting Authority herby varies the licence area plan (LAP) for radio in the Cairns region of Queensland, determined on 18 October 1997 and subsequently varied on 8 October 1998, under subsection 26(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

The variation determines that channel capacity be made available for:

•       two national radio services in Cairns and Cairns North;
•       two FM transmitters for the 4CCA commercial radio service in Redlynch Valley and Little Mulgrave;
•       an FM transmitter for an additional community radio service in Cairns;
•       an open narrowcasting service in Port Douglas; and

vary the technical specifications of two commercial radio services in Mossman , as set out below:

The variation also redefines the licence areas of the existing Cairns commercial radio services, 4IL, 4HOT, 4CCA and 4RGC and the Cairns community radio services 4CCR and 4CIM and defines the licence area of the new Cairns community radio service using 2001 Census boundaries.

The descriptions of the updated licence areas are at Attachments 1.1.1, 2 .1.1 and 3.1.

(Determined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority on 23 September 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 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 draft variation to the LAP has been updated to reflect the proposed variation to this plan.

Schedule One of the Cairns LAP prior to this proposed variation is reproduced below.

SCHEDULE ONE

Licence Area Plan : Cairns - (Radio) - October 1997 - as varied October 1998

Licence Area : Cairns RA1

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

Schedule One

Licence Area Plan : Cairns Radio -  September 2004

Licence Area : CAIRNS RA1

Schedule 3

Draft Licence Area Plan : Cairns Radio -  September 2004

Licence Area : CAIRNS RA3

Attachment 1.1.1

Licence Area - CAIRNS RA1

Commercial Radio Service Licence numbers:  SL4170, SL5742, SL1150014, SL1150044

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

Note: 

Standard terminology used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics: 

 (C)  =   City

(SLA)  =   Statistical Local Area

(CD)  =   Collection District

Attachment 1.5.1

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Cairns Radio -  September 2004

Category : Commercial

General Area Served : Mossman (QLD)

Service Licence Number : SL5742

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10007487

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Crown Castle Mossman Site  Gorge View               Crescent  MOSSMAN

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 55 325240 8178150

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 91.7 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 40 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Attachment 1.7.1

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Cairns Radio -  September 2004

Category : Commercial

General Area Served : Mossman (QLD)

Service Licence Number : SL1150014

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10007488

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Crown Castle Mossman Site  Gorge View               Crescent  MOSSMAN

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 55 325240 8178150

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 92.5 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 40 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Attachment 1.23

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Cairns Radio -  September 2004

Category : National

General Area Served : Cairns North (QLD)

Service Licence Number : Not applicable

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10013639

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Broadcast Site  BUCHAN POINT

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 55 357300 8148900

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 96.3 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 37 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Attachment 1.24

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Cairns Radio -  September 2004

Category : National

General Area Served : Cairns (QLD)

Service Licence Number : Not applicable

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10013402

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Radio Terminal  MT BELLENDEN-KER

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 55 378034 8090678

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 101.1 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 53 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Special Conditions :-

Note: The antenna height of this national service has been changed from 50 to 53 metres. Refer to file 1998/5261.

Attachment 1.25

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Cairns Radio -  September 2004

Category : Commercial

General Area Served : Redlynch Valley (QLD)

Service Licence Number : SL1150014

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10013339

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : NTL Site  Mt Williams Redlynch Valley                CAIRNS

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 55 360380 8129200

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 91.5 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 25 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Special Conditions :-

Any transmission in accordance with this technical specification is planned on the basis that it will be protected to a minimum median field strength level of 66 dBuV/m and above against interference from other broadcasting services.

Attachment 1.26

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Cairns Radio -  September 2004

Category : Commercial

General Area Served : Little Mulgrave (QLD)

Service Licence Number : SL1150014

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10013395

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Broadcast Planning Site  Goldsborough  Valley  LITTLE MULGRAVE

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 55 366550 8101950

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 93.5 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 20 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Special Conditions :-

Any transmission in accordance with this technical specification is planned on the basis that it will be protected to a minimum median field strength level of 66 dBuV/m and above against interference from other broadcasting services.

Attachment 1.27

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Cairns Radio -  September 2004

Category : Open Narrowcasting

General Area Served : Port Douglas (QLD)

Service Licence Number : Not applicable

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10013925

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Communications Tower  Flagstaff Hill   PORT DOUGLAS

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 55 336262 8176960

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 106.3 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 20 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Special Conditions :-

Any transmission in accordance with this technical specification is planned on the basis that it will be protected to a minimum median field strength level of 66 dBuV/m and above against interference from other broadcasting services.

The 'coverage radius' of this transmission is 10 kilometres measured from the nominal transmitter location (AMG co-ordinates: Zone 55; Easting 336262; Northing 8176960)

Attachment 2.1.1

Licence Area - CAIRNS RA2

Community Radio Service Licence numbers:  SL1883, SL1150013

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

Note: 

Standard terminology used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics: 

 (C)  =   City

(SLA)  =   Statistical Local Area

(CD)  =   Collection District

Attachment 3.1

Licence Area - CAIRNS RA3

Community Radio Service Licence numbers:  SL1150829

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

Note: 

Standard terminology used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics: 

 (CD)  =   Collection District

Attachment 3.2

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Cairns Radio -  September 2004

Category : Community

General Area Served : Cairns (QLD)

Service Licence Number : SL1150829

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10013927

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Smithfield State High School   SMITHFIELD

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing
Reference 55 360890 8140460

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 101.9 MHz

Polarisation Vertical

Maximum antenna height 30 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-