VARIATION TO

LICENCE AREA PLAN

GYMPIE RADIO

 22 NOVEMBER 2001

VARIATION TO THE LICENCE AREA PLAN – GYMPIE RADIO – DETERMINED DECEMBER 2000 – VARIED NOVEMBER 2001

VARIATION

The Australian Broadcasting Authority hereby varies the plan for broadcasting services in the Gympie area of Queensland, under subsection 26(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

The variation comprises additional frequencies for the existing commercial radio services designated by the service licence numbers SL10327 and SL4175 as set out below:

The technical specifications applicable to this service are set out at Schedule One and Attachment 1.8 and 1.9 of this instrument.

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

(Determined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority on 22 November 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.

Schedule One of the Gympie radio LAP prior to this variation is reproduced below:

SCHEDULE ONE

Licence Area Plan : Gympie Radio – December 2000

Licence Area : GYMPIE RA1

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

SCHEDULE ONE

Licence Area Plan : Gympie Radio – November 2001

Licence Area : GYMPIE RA1

Attachment 1.1

LICENCE AREA FOR SERVICE LICENCE NUMBERS: SL4175, SL10327

GYMPIE COMMERCIAL 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

 (S)  =   Shire

Attachment 1.8

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Gympie – November 2001

Category : Commercial

General Area Served : Noosa/Tewantin (QLD)

Service Licence Number : SL10327

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - AM Radio

Specification Number : TS10010652

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Sunrise Rd, Tewantin

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing

Reference 56 500100 7077900

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode FM Radio

Carrier Frequency : 100.5 MHz

Polarisiation: Mixed

Maximum Antenna Height 30 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Attachment 1.9

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Gympie – November 2001

Category : Commercial

General Area Served : Noosa/Tewantin (QLD)

Service Licence Number : SL4175

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10010667

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Doonan – 7 km South of Tewantin

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing

Reference 56 503988 7074008

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode AM Radio

Carrier Frequency : 1323 kHz

Output Radiation Pattern :-