Licence Area Plan - Parkes (Radio) - Variation - October 2002

VARIATION TO LICENCE AREA PLAN

Parkes Radio

Australian Broadcasting AuthorityCanberra

October 2002

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VARIATION TO LICENCE AREA PLAN - PARKES RADIO – DETERMINED MAY 1997 – VARIED - OCTOBER 2002

VARIATION

The Australian Broadcasting Authority hereby varies the licence area plan (LAP) for radio in the Parkes region of New South Wales, under subsection 26(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

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

(Determined by the ABA on 24 October 2002)

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 inaccordance 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 Parkes radio LAP prior to this variation is reproduced below.

SCHEDULE ONE

Licence Area Plan - Parkes (Radio) - May 1997

Licence Area:  Parkes RA1
 

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

SCHEDULE ONE

Licence Area Plan : Parkes Radio – October 2002

Licence Area : Parkes RA1
 

Attachment 1.7

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Parkes – May 1997

Category:     Open Narrowcasting

General Area Served:    Parkes/Forbes (NSW)

Service Licence Number:   Not applicable
 

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION -  FM Radio

Specification Number:   TS10001425

Transmitter Site:-

Nominal location:    Mt Coonambro

Australian Map Grid:    Zone  Easting  Northing

Reference:     55  624385 6319824

Site Tolerance:    Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission:-

Frequency Band & Mode:   VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency:    91.5 MHz

Polarisation:     Mixed

Maximum Antenna Height:   30 m

Output Radiation Pattern:-

Special Conditions:-

The ‘coverage radius’ of this transmitter is 60 kilometres measured from a point with the following AMG co-ordinates; Zone 55; Easting: 609500; Northing: 6332500. This point is not the same as the nominal transmitter site.

This specification will be replaced by the technical specification TS10011667, described under attachment 1.7.1, at a date not later than one year after publication of the Gazette notice (as required by s.35 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992) that the variation to the licence area plan for Parkes has been determined.

Attachment 1.7.1

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Parkes – October 2002

Category:     Open Narrowcasting

General Area Served:    Parkes/Forbes (NSW)

Service Licence Number:   Not applicable

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION -  FM Radio

Specification Number:   TS10011667

Transmitter Site:-

Nominal Location:    Mt Coonambro

Australian Map Grid:    Zone  Easting  Northing

Reference:     55  624385 6319824

Site Tolerance:    Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines

Emission:-

Frequency Band & Mode:   VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency:    99.9 MHz

Polarisation:     Mixed

Maximum Antenna Height:   30 m

Output Radiation Pattern:-

Special Conditions:-

The ‘coverage radius’ of this transmitter is 60 kilometres measured from a point with the following AMG co-ordinates; Zone 55; Easting: 609500; Northing: 6332500. This point is not the same as the nominal transmitter site.

This specification will replace the technical specification TS10001425, described under attachment 1.7, at a date not later than one year after publication of the Gazette notice (as required by s.35 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992) that the variation to the licence area plan for Parkes has been determined.