Engineering Assessment
[ Last Updated 16 December 2005 ]
The Ministry has engaged an engineering consultancy to complete the engineering for AM/FM licences offered for renewal.
Replacement licences will be offered for licences due to expire on 2 April 2011. These will be offered only at those transmitter sites in current ongoing use for AM/FM broadcasting as at 26 September 2005.
Replacement licences will be engineered with technical parameters reflecting current engineering practices and actual utilisation of rights. The review will confirm transmitter location and consider (among other things), maximum power, maximum permitted interfering signals, horizontal radiation patterns and antenna height.
Receiver coverage locations will be checked but major changes are unlikely. In some few cases the present licences do not meet established engineering standards and practices and therefore exact replacement licences cannot be certified under the Radiocommunications Act. In these cases the Ministry will need to alter frequencies or antenna patterns or other parameters to enable certification to occur. Individual licensees will be advised directly of these situations.
The engineering assessment is due for completion by the end of 2005.
This page will be updated from time to time. If you have any queries regarding the project or wish to receive notice of updates please contact the Ministry via email to radiospectrum@med.govt.nz.
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