LICENCE AREA PLAN Coober Pedy Community Radio Australian Broadcasting Authority Canberra February 2004 © Commonwealth of Australia – February 2004 This work is copyright. Apart from fair dealings for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted by the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means or process, without the written permission of the publishers. Published by the Australian Broadcasting Authority PO Box 34 BELCONNEN ACT 2616 Licence Area Plan – Coober Pedy Community Radio – February 2004 DETERMINATION The Australian Broadcasting Authority hereby makes this plan for community radio broadcasting services in the Coober Pedy area of South Australia, under subsection 26(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 ('the Act'). One community radio broadcasting service is to be made available in the area described at Attachment 1.1 to this Determination with the use of broadcasting services bands. The characteristics, including technical specifications, of the service that is to be available in the area described at Attachment 1.1 is set out in Schedule One and Attachment 1.2 to this determination. (Determined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority on 5 February 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 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 time of publication. SCHEDULE ONE Licence Area Plan : Coober Pedy Community Radio – February 2004 Licence Area : COOBER PEDY RA1 Service Category Status Frequency Service Licence No Technical Specification No Attach No Area Served Community Proposed 104.5 MHz SL1150823 TS10009790 1.2 Coober Pedy Attachment 1.1 LICENCE AREA – COOBER PEDY COMMUNITY RA1 SERVICE LICENCE NUMBER: SL1150823 The licence area, in terms of areas defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics at the Census of 5 August 2001, is: Area Description Coober Pedy (DC) Note: Standard terminology used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics: (DC) = District Council Attachment 1.2 LICENCE AREA PLAN : Coober Pedy Community Radio – February 2004 Category : Community General Area Served : Coober Pedy (SA) Service Licence Number : SL1150823 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio Specification Number : TS10009790 Transmitter Site :- Nominal location : Coober Pedy Area School SA Australian Map Grid : Zone Easting Northing Reference 53 476032 6790470 Site Tolerance : Refer to Technical Planning Guidelines Emission :- Frequency Band & Mode : VHF-FM Carrier Frequency : 104.5 MHz Polarisation : Vertical Maximum antenna height : 35 m Output Radiation Pattern :- Bearing or Sector (Clockwise direction) Maximum ERP At all angles of azimuth 100 W