Variation to Licence Area Plan – Deniliquin Radio – 2025 (No. 1)
The Australian Communications and Media Authority makes the following instrument under subsection 26(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.
Adam Suckling
[signed]
Michael Brealey
[signed]
General Manager
Australian Communications and Media Authority
This is the Variation to Licence Area Plan – Deniliquin Radio – 2025 (No. 1).
This instrument commences at the start of the day after the day it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.
Note: The Federal Register of Legislation may be accessed free of charge at www.legislation.gov.au.
This instrument is made under subsection 26(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.
The instrument that is specified in Schedule 1 is amended as set out in the applicable items in that Schedule.
(section 4)
1 Clause (4)
(1) Omit ‘Six open narrowcasting radio services’, substitute ‘Five open narrowcasting radio services’.
(2) Omit ‘Attachments 1.7 to 1.13’, substitute ‘Attachments 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, 1.12 and 1.13’.
2 After clause (5)
Insert:
(5A) For an area mentioned in clause (2), (3), (4) or (5), the Schedule mentioned in that clause specifies the radiocommunications transmitters planned for the provision of broadcasting services in that area by reference to:
(a) the Attachment that determines the technical specifications for each transmitter; and
(b) the frequency on which each transmitter is planned to operate and the approximate geographic area each transmitter is planned to serve; and
(c) the technical specification number for each transmitter and, for a transmitter planned for the provision of a service under a broadcasting services bands licence, the licence number of that licence.
(5B) Each Attachment, other than an attachment that describes an area within which broadcasting services are to be available, determines the following technical specifications for a radiocommunications transmitter specified in a Schedule:
(a) subject to clause (5C), a description, and geographic coordinates, of the location (nominal location) from where the radiocommunications transmitter must be operated;
(b) the frequency on which the transmitter must be operated;
(c) the frequency band containing that frequency, and the mode of transmission the transmitter must use;
(d) the required polarisation of the transmission made by the transmitter;
(e) the maximum antenna height for the transmitter;
(f) the maximum effective radiated power (ERP) or cymomotive force, in each specified direction, of transmissions made by the transmitter;
(g) any special conditions that apply to the operation of the transmitter;
(h) any circumstances that must exist for the transmitter to be able to be operated, or that prohibit the transmitter from being operated.
(5C) A radiocommunications transmitter may be operated from a site other than a nominal location (alternative site) if operation from the alternative site complies with any requirements set out for the transmitter and for the operation of the transmitter in guidelines made under section 33 of the Act in relation to operation from an alternative site.
Note: Guidelines under section 33 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 are available, free of charge, from the Federal Register of Legislation at www.legislation.gov.au. At the time this clause commenced, the Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017 were the guidelines in force under section 33.
(5D) In this plan, radiocommunications transmitter has the meaning given by the Radiocommunications Act 1992.
3 Schedule One
Omit the rows of the table that refer to Attachments 1.4B and 1.4C, substitute:
| 102.9 MHz | SL10407 | TS12000437 | 1.4B | Echuca/Moama |
| 106.1 MHz | SL10407 | TS12000589 | 1.4C | Deniliquin |
4 Schedule One
Omit the row of the table that refers to Attachment 1.8.
5 Each of Attachments 1.2 to 1.4
Omit:
Site Tolerance: Refer to Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017
6 Attachment 1.4A
(1) Omit ‘Broadcast Site Racecourse Ritchie Rd COBRAM’, substitute ‘Rich Rivers Radio Site 104A Racecourse Rd COBRAM’.
(2) Omit ‘-35.904024’, substitute ‘-35.904089’.
(3) Omit ‘145.636837’, substitute ‘145.636848’.
(4) Omit:
Site Tolerance: Refer to Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017
(5) Omit ‘30 m’, substitute ‘35 m’.
7 Attachment 1.4B
(1) Omit ‘SL10408’, substitute ‘SL10407’.
(2) Omit ‘TS12000971’, substitute ‘TS12000437’.
(3) Omit:
Site Tolerance: Refer to Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017
(4) Omit ‘92.5 MHz’, substitute ‘102.9 MHz’.
(5) Omit:
Availability of TS12000971 :-
TS12000971 ceases to be available under licence SL10408 upon the commencement of transmission of a service under licence SL10408 by transmitter TS12000441.
8 Attachment 1.4C
(1) Omit ‘Echuca/Moama (VIC)’, substitute ‘Deniliquin (NSW)’.
(2) Omit ‘TS12000437’, substitute ‘TS12000589’.
(3) Omit ‘2QN-2MOR Office 250 Anstruther St ECHUCA’, substitute ‘Broadcast Site Lot 991 Cobb Hwy DENILIQUIN’.
(4) Omit: ‘-36.126345’, substitute ‘-35.668086’.
(5) Omit ‘144.74853611’, substitute ‘144.909752’.
(6) Omit:
Site Tolerance: Refer to Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017
(7) Omit ‘102.9 MHz’, substitute ‘106.1 MHz’.
(8) Omit ‘25 m’, substitute ‘65 m’.
(9) In the Output Radiation Pattern table, omit ‘200 W’, substitute ‘1 kW’.
(10) In the Advisory Note, omit ‘This service has been planned on an interference limited basis. Field strengths below the planned minimum median field strength level are likely to suffer interference from other broadcasting services.’
9 Attachment 1.5
Omit:
Site Tolerance: Refer to Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017
10 Attachment 1.6
(1) Omit ‘Broadcast Site Racecourse Ritchie Rd COBRAM’, substitute ‘Rich Rivers Radio Site 104A Racecourse Rd COBRAM’.
(2) Omit ‘-35.904024’, substitute ‘-35.904089’.
(3) Omit ‘145.636837’, substitute ‘145.636848’.
(4) Omit:
Site Tolerance: Refer to Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017
(5) Omit ‘30 m’, substitute ‘35 m’.
(6) After the Output Radiation Pattern table, insert:
Advisory Note :-
This service has been planned on an interference limited basis. Field strengths below the planned minimum median field strength level are likely to suffer interference from other broadcasting services.
Any transmission in accordance with this specification is planned on the basis that it will be protected to a minimum median field strength level of 66 dBµV/m against interference from other broadcasting services.
11 Attachment 1.6A
(1) Omit:
Site Tolerance: Refer to Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017
(2) Omit:
Availability of TS12000441 :-
TS12000441 is only available for the transmission of a service under licence SL10408 when the transmission of a service under licence SL10408 by transmitter TS12000971 has ceased.
12 Attachment 1.7
Omit:
Site Tolerance: Refer to Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017
13 Attachment 1.8
Repeal the attachment.
14 Each of Attachments 1.9, 1.10, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14 and 2.2
Omit:
Site Tolerance: Refer to Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017