Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C01288:reg:6:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C01288
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 6 (pt 4/5)
Character Range: 10372–13492

For example, an interference-limited service, or a service intended to serve an area for which protection to the planned minimum field strength is not required, might have a higher median field strength specified in the relevant LAP.
Example for note 2: A repeater that services several suburbs with deficient coverage, but whose coverage area is enclosed within that of a much higher powered transmitter that covers most of a much larger metropolitan area.
Note 3: In the case of the AM radio band, the field strength to be considered is that of the day-time ground wave signal (not the sky wave signal).
Note 4: The planned minimum field strength for all services except AM radio is calculated at a height of 10 metres above ground.
radio emission has the meaning given by section 5 of the Radiocommunications Act.
radiocommunication has the meaning given by section 5 of the Radiocommunications Act.
Radiocommunications Act means the Radiocommunications Act 1992.
radiocommunications device has the meaning given by section 5 of the Radiocommunications Act.
radiocommunications licensee means a "licensee" within the meaning given to that term by section 5 of the Radiocommunications Act.
technical operating specifications, in relation to a transmitter, means all the characteristics of the transmitter in operation, including the site of the transmitter, the height of the transmitting antenna, the frequency on which the transmitter transmits, and the radiation pattern of the transmission.
television broadcasting service means:
 (a) a commercial television broadcasting service;
 (b) a community television broadcasting service;
 (c) a national television broadcasting service;
 (d) an open narrowcasting television service.
transmitter has the meaning given by subsection 8(2) of the Radiocommunications Act.
transmitter licence means any of the following licences:
 (a) a licence issued under section 101A of the Radiocommunications Act;
 (b) a licence issued under section 102 of the Radiocommunications Act;
 (c) a datacasting transmitter licence;
 (d) a digital radio multiplex transmitter licence;
 (e) a licence issued under section 100 of the Radiocommunications Act that authorises the transmission of a narrowcasting service.
UHF has the meaning given by Schedule 1 to the Radiocommunications (Interpretation) Determination 2015.
UHF television transmitter means a transmitter authorised to operate in UHF.
urban centre means an area designated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics as an urban centre in the 2011 Census.
VHF has the meaning given by Schedule 1 to the Radiocommunications (Interpretation) Determination 2015.
VHF television transmitter means a transmitter authorised to operate in VHF.
Note: A number of other expressions used in these guidelines are defined in the Broadcasting Services Act, including the following:
               (a)      ACMA;
               (b)      broadcasting service;
(c) broadcasting services bands;
(d) commercial broadcasting service;
(e) commercial radio broadcasting service;
(f) community broadcasting service;
(g) community radio broadcasting service;