VARIATION TO

LICENCE AREA PLAN

INNISFAIL

(RADIO)

October 1998

LICENCE AREA PLAN

INNISFAIL

VARIATION

The Australian Broadcasting Authority hereby varies the licence area plan (LAP) for radio services in the Innisfail area of Queensland, determined on 12 November 1997, under subsection 26(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

The variation comprises a variation of the technical specifications of the open narrowcasting radio service designated by the technical specification number TS10007592 as set out below:

The technical specifications set out in Schedule One and Attachment 1.16 of the licence area plan are deleted.

The varied technical specifications now applicable to this service are set out in Schedule One and Attachment 1.16.1 to this instrument.

(Determined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority on 8 October 1998)

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.

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

SCHEDULE ONE

Licence Area Plan : Innisfail - (Radio) - November 1997

The updated Schedule to the licence area plan affected by this variation is as follows:

SCHEDULE ONE

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

Licence Area : Innisfail RA1

Attachment 1.16.1

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Innisfail - Radio - October 1998

Category : Open Narrowcasting

General Area Served : Innisfail (QLD)

Service Licence Number : Not applicable

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - AM Radio

Specification Number : TS10007592

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location  3km East of Innisfail

Australian Map Grid  Zone Easting Northing

Reference 55 399400 8061400

Site Tolerance  Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode MF-AM

Carrier Frequency  873 kHz

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Special Conditions: -

The ‘2.5mV/m contour radius’ of this transmission is 25 kilometres measured from a point with the following AMG co-ordinates:  Zone 55; Easting 399400; Northing 8061400.  This point is the same as the nominal transmitter location.