Coverage evaluation matrix Category Coverage description Affected services Evaluation Description of issue Field strength Reception quality No issues Strong All Suburban + 12 dB Above threshold Households are not expected to experience reception issues Very good Suburban + 6 dB Above threshold Households are not expected to experience reception issues Good Suburban Above threshold Households are not expected to experience reception issues Minor issues Adequate At least one below suburban threshold Rural Above threshold While adequate coverage should provide good signal reception over an area, some statistical signal variations can cause occasional reception difficulties Issues Poor At least one below rural threshold Below rural Below threshold Isolated*— relates to an issue identified as affecting less than approximately 5% of the populated area Patchy*— relates to an issue identified as affecting between approximately 5% and 25% of the populated area No coverage All Widespread*—relates to an issue identified as affecting more than approximately 25% of the populated area *Please note that this percentage figure should not be used to calculate the percentage of the affected population Executive summary
Appendix E Urban centre/locality-specific results for the Far North Queensland switchover area Urban centres/localities in Table 4 have been assessed based on a combination of the coverage prediction modelling, field survey measurements and engineering analysis. Table 4 Urban centre/locality assessments based on a combination of the coverage prediction modelling, field survey measurements and engineering analysis Urban centre/ locality Pop. Assessment Comments Urban centres/localities where no coverage and/or reception issues have been identified Bramston Beach (8 measurement locations) 177 transmitter provides coverage ranging from strong to very good issues identified Innisfail (10 measurement locations) 8,261 transmitter provides strong coverage issues identified Johnstone South (5 measurement locations) 481 transmitter provides strong coverage issues identified Kairi (2 measurement locations) 193 transmitter provides coverage ranging from strong to very good issues identified Mareeba (13 measurement locations) 6,806 transmitter provides coverage ranging from strong to good issues identified Mourilyan (2 measurement locations) 424 transmitter provides strong coverage issues identified Tinaroo (2 measurement locations) 268 transmitter provides coverage ranging from strong to good issues identified Wangan (5 measurement locations) 607 transmitter provides strong coverage issues identified Urban centres/localities where minor coverage and/or reception issues have been identified Cairns (58 measurement locations) 98,326 coverage from Cairns, Cairns East and Cairns North transmitters is very good to adequate combined coverage from the three Cairns transmitters is generally very good to adequate, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties.
Babinda (4 measurement locations) 1,166 transmitter provides coverage ranging from strong to adequate coverage from the Babinda transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Bingil Bay (5 measurement locations) 402 transmitter provides coverage ranging from very good to adequate coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Cooya Beach (3 measurement locations) 597 transmitter provides mostly adequate coverage Douglas transmitter provides adequate coverage coverage from the Mossman transmitter is generally adequate, some areas with potentially poor coverage have been identified. coverage from the Port Douglas transmitter is generally adequate, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. El Arish (5 measurement locations) 230 transmitter provides coverage ranging from very good to adequate transmitter provides coverage ranging from good to poor coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Gordonvale (9 measurement locations) 4,426 East transmitter provides coverage ranging from good to poor transmitter provides strong to good coverage for two available digital services coverage from the Cairns East transmitter is generally good, some areas with poor coverage have been identified. Gordonvale transmitter does not currently provide a full set of digital services. Herberton (5 measurement locations) 974 transmitter provides coverage ranging from good to adequate coverage from the Herberton transmitter is generally good to adequate, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Kurrimine (5 measurement locations) 613 transmitter provides coverage ranging from very good to adequate coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Malanda (6 measurement locations) 1,011 transmitter provides coverage ranging from strong to adequate coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Millaa Millaa (5 measurement locations) 290 transmitter provides coverage ranging from strong to adequate While coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties
Mission Beach South (2 measurement locations) 688 transmitter provides coverage ranging from very good to adequate. Beach transmitter provides coverage ranging from very good to good for two available digital services While coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Mission Beach transmitter does not currently provide a full set of digital services. Mossman (5 measurement locations) 1,741 transmitter provides adequate coverage transmitter provides no coverage Douglas transmitter provides no coverage coverage from the Mossman transmitter is generally adequate, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Mossman South self-help retransmission site does not provide digital services. This site is not on the broadcaster candidate list for conversion. Newell (3 measurement locations) 383 transmitter provides adequate coverage Douglas transmitter provides adequate coverage coverage from the Mossman and Port Douglas transmitters is generally adequate, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Port Douglas (5 measurement locations) 950 Douglas transmitter provides coverage ranging from good to adequate coverage from the Port Douglas transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Ravenshoe (5 measurement locations) 909 transmitter provides coverage ranging from good to adequate coverage from the Ravenshoe transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Silkwood (8 measurement locations) 324 transmitter provides coverage ranging from strong to adequate coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Smithfield (3 measurement locations) 3,072 transmitter provides coverage ranging from very good to adequate East transmitter provides poor coverage coverage from the Cairns and Cairns East transmitter is generally good to adequate, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Tolga (2 measurement locations) 844 transmitter provides coverage ranging from strong to adequate coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties. Yungaburra (2 measurement locations) 930 transmitter provides coverage ranging from strong to adequate coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally good, some coverage variations may cause reception difficulties.
Urban centres/localities where coverage/reception issues have been identified Isolated issue(s) (where approximately <5% of populated areas show coverage/reception issues) Atherton (17 measurement locations) 6,246 transmitter provides coverage ranging from very good to poor transmitter provides mainly good coverage, with some isolated areas of poor coverage coverage from the Cairns and Atherton transmitters is generally good, some areas with poor coverage have been identified. Atherton transmitter does not currently provide a full set of digital services. Cairns Northern Beaches (33 measurement locations) 15,514 Cairns East and Cairns North transmitters provide combined coverage ranging from good to poor combined coverage from the three Cairns transmitters is generally good, some high terrain areas with poor coverage have been identified. Patchy issue(s) (where between approximately 5% and 25% of populated areas show coverage/reception issues) Craiglie (7 measurement locations) 2,543 Douglas transmitter provides coverage ranging from adequate to no coverage transmitter provides coverage ranging from adequate to no coverage coverage from the Port Douglas transmitter is generally good, some areas to the town’s south with poor coverage have been identified. Flying Fish Point (7 measurement locations) 715 transmitter provides coverage ranging from good to poor coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally good, some areas with poor coverage have been identified. have indicated possible implementation of digital services at the local Flying Fish Point site. Kuranda (10 measurement locations) 1,614 transmitter provides coverage ranging from good to no coverage North transmitter provides coverage ranging from adequate to poor coverage from the Cairns and Cairns North transmitters is generally good to adequate, some areas with poor coverage have been identified. Mission Beach (4 measurement locations) 516 transmitter provides coverage ranging from good to poor Beach transmitter provides coverage ranging from adequate to poor for two available digital services and Mission Beach transmitters generally provide good to adequate coverage; however, some localised terrain-related issues cause poor coverage for one or more digital services in some areas. Mission Beach transmitter does not currently provide a full set of digital services. Redlynch (9 measurement locations) 5,114 transmitter provides coverage ranging from adequate to poor East transmitter provides coverage ranging from good to poor coverage from the three Cairns transmitters is generally adequate, some areas with poor coverage have been identified. Redlynch transmitter does not currently provide a full set of digital
North transmitter provides coverage ranging from adequate to poor Hybrid transmitter provides coverage ranging from very good to poor for two available digital services services. are presently considering implementing commercial digital services at the Redlynch transmitter in order to provide a full set of digital services. Tully (5 measurement locations) 2,451 transmitter provides coverage ranging from very good to poor coverage from the Tully transmitter is generally good, some areas with poor coverage have been identified. Wongaling Beach (5 measurement locations) 994 transmitter provides coverage ranging from adequate to no coverage Beach transmitter provides coverage ranging from good to poor for two available digital services coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally adequate, some areas with poor coverage have been identified. Mission Beach transmitter does not currently provide a full set of digital services. Yarrabah (10 measurement locations) 2,372 East transmitter provides coverage ranging from good to no coverage coverage from the Cairns East transmitter is generally good to adequate, some localised terrain related issues cause poor coverage for one or more digital services. Yarrabah self-help retransmission site provides only analog services. site is on the broadcaster candidate list for conversion. Widespread issue(s) (where approximately >25% of populated areas show coverage/reception issues) Cardwell (8 measurement locations) 1,250 transmitter provides coverage ranging from adequate to no coverage hybrid site provides coverage ranging from good to poor coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally adequate, some areas with poor coverage have been identified; SBS digital service in particular provides no coverage. Cardwell hybrid site provides only STQ digital services; RTQ digital services are to be rolled out. National analog self-help services from this site are not on the broadcaster candidate list for conversion. Oak Beach (2 measurement locations) 161 transmitter provides poor to no coverage terrain-related issues are causing poor to no coverage of services from the Cairns transmitter. Tully Heads (8 measurement locations) 455 transmitter provides coverage ranging from poor to no coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally poor. Heads self-help retransmission site does not provide digital services. This site is not on the broadcaster
candidate list for conversion. Wonga Beach (5 measurement locations) 748 transmitter provides poor coverage from the Cairns transmitter is generally poor. have indicated that this town is a candidate for a new gap filler site. Speewah (1 measurement location) 810 transmitter provides no coverage Speewah self-help retransmission site does not provide digital services. This site is not on the broadcaster candidate list for conversion