Licence Area Plan - Hobart Radio - Variation - March 2003

VARIATION TO
LICENCE AREA PLAN

Hobart

Australian Broadcasting Authority
Canberra

27 March 2003

Variation to Licence Area Plan – Hobart Radio - March 2003

VARIATION

Under subsection 26(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, the Australian Broadcasting Authority varies the licence area plan (LAP) for radio in Hobart, Tasmania, as determined in December 2001.

The draft variation comprises a change to the technical specifications as set out below:

The technical specifications set out in Schedule One at Attachment 1.18 and 1.19 are to be deleted.

The area to which the community radio broadcasting service is available is described at Attachment 1.1.1 to this instrument.

Determined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority on 27 March 2003

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); and
• 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 this plan.

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

SCHEDULE ONE

Licence Area Plan – Tasmania Radio - December 2001

Licence Area : Hobart RA1

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

SCHEDULE ONE

Variation to Licence Area Plan – Hobart Radio - March 2003

Licence Area:  Hobart RA1

Attachment 1.1.1

LICENCE AREA - HOBART RA1

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

 (M)  =   Municipality

Attachment 1.18.1

LICENCE AREA PLAN: Hobart Radio – March 2003 

Category : Community

General Area Served : Hobart (TAS)

Service Licence Number : SL3080

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS3080001

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Mt Nelson

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing

Reference 55 527002 5247000

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 103.3 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 35 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Special Condition:

This specification will be replaced by the technical specification TS10010799, described under attachment 1.19.1, at a date not later than 31 December 2003 or such later date as notified by the ABA.

Attachment 1.19.1

LICENCE AREA PLAN: Hobart Radio – March 2003 

Category : Community

General Area Served : Hobart (TAS)

Service Licence Number : SL3080

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number : TS10010799

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location : Mt Wellington

Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing

Reference 55 519185 5250351

Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency : 106.5 MHz

Polarisation Mixed

Maximum antenna height 101 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Special Condition:

This specification will replace the technical specification TS3080001, described under attachment 1.18.1, at a date not later than 31 December 2003, or such later date as notified by the ABA.