AS/NZS 5070.1:2008

1-AS/NZS 5070.1:2008 SITING AND OPERATION OF RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES - GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR FIXED, MOBILE AND...
4-PREFACE
5-CONTENTS
7-SECTION 1 SCOPE AND GENERAL
7-1.1 SCOPE
7-1.2 APPLICATION
8-1.3 REFERENCED AND RELATED DOCUMENTS
8-1.3.1 Referenced documents
9-1.3.2 Related documents
9-1.4 DEFINITION
9-1.4.1 Electromagnetic radiation (EMR)
10-SECTION 2 MANAGEMENT
10-2.1 GENERAL
10-2.2 RESPONSIBILITY
11-SECTION 3 PLANNING AND DESIGN
11-3.1 GENERAL
11-3.2 COMMUNITY CONSULTATION
11-3.3 SITE SELECTION CRITERIA
11-3.3.1 General
11-3.3.2 Important considerations
12-3.3.3 Proximity to aerodromes
12-3.3.4 Proximity to radio astronomy and sensitive sites
12-3.3.5 Proximity to flammable liquids and Gas facilities and combustible dust facilities.
13-3.4 SITE DESIGN EMR ASSESSMENT
13-3.5 ANTENNA MOUNTING DESIGN GUIDELINES-MINIMIZATION OF ACCESSIBLE AREAS CONTAINING EMR HAZARDS
14-SECTION 4 CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION
14-4.1 GENERAL
14-4.2 PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS
14-4.3 SITE SAFETY
14-4.3.1 Strategic safety plan
14-4.3.2 Safety risks
14-4.3.3 Safety plan provisions
15-4.4 STRUCTURES
15-4.4.1 Regulatory requirements
15-4.4.2 Engineering provisions
15-4.4.3 Safe working on towers
15-4.4.4 Relevant Australian standards
16-4.4.5 Work practices
16-4.4.6 Site security
16-4.5 PROVISION OF UTILITIES
16-4.5.1 Electrical supplies
17-4.5.2 Water supplies
17-4.5.3 Communications to the site
17-4.5.4 Sewerage and drainage
17-4.6 INSTALLATION OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND CABLING
17-4.6.1 Electronic equipment considerations
17-4.6.2 Cabling requirements
18-4.6.3 Electronic equipment labelling
18-4.6.4 Documentation for maintenance purposes
18-4.7 EARTHING
18-4.7.1 Earthing installation practice
18-4.7.2 Electrical power earthing
18-4.7.3 Equipment earthing
19-4.7.4 Lightning protection devices
19-4.7.5 Lightning protection installation practice
20-SECTION 5 COMMISSIONING
20-5.1 GENERAL
20-5.2 COMMISSIONING PROCESS
21-SECTION 6 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
21-6.1 MANAGEMENT
21-6.1.1 Responsibility
21-6.1.2 Cooperation of owners and operators
21-6.1.3 Management practice
21-6.2 SERVICE OBJECTIVES
21-6.2.1 General
21-6.2.2 Radiocommunications maintenance
22-6.2.3 General maintenance
23-6.2.4 Response to emergencies-Restoration of service
23-6.3 INTERFERENCE
23-6.3.1 Preventing interference
23-6.3.2 Resolution of interference
24-6.3.3 Preliminary checks
24-6.3.4 Cooperative resolution
24-6.4 REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
24-6.4.1 General
24-6.4.2 Radiocommunications licensing
25-6.4.3 EMR regulations
25-6.4.4 Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) regulations
25-6.5 COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE PUBLIC
26-SECTION 7 DECOMMISSIONING
26-7.1 APPLICATION
26-7.2 DECOMMISSIONING PLAN
26-7.3 DECOMMISSIONING REQUIREMENTS
26-7.4 REMOVAL OF UNUSED ITEMS
27-APPENDIX A - REGULATORY AUTHORITIES
28-APPENDIX B - PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORITIES
29-APPENDIX C - ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN THE AUSTRALIAN RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS/BROADCASTING INDUSTRY
30-APPENDIX D - ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN THE NEW ZEALAND RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS/BROADCASTING INDUSTRY
31-APPENDIX E - SITE SELECTION IN PROXIMITY TO AERODROMES
31-E1 TOWERS OR MASTS
31-E2 SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INTERFERENCE
31-E2.1 General
31-E2.2 Field strengths
31-E2.3 Hazardous field strengths (for aircraft)
32-E2.4 Transmitters
32-E2.5 Receivers on and off aerodromes
33-E2.6 Contacts in Australia
33-E2.7 Contacts in New Zealand
34-APPENDIX F - CONSIDERATION OF RADIO ASTRONOMY SITES
36-APPENDIX G - INTERFERENCE
36-G1 TYPES OF INTERFERENCE
36-G1.1 General
36-G1.2 In-band interference
36-G1.3 Out-of-band interference
36-G2 TYPES OF IN-BAND INTERFERENCE
37-G3 TYPES OF OUT-OF-BAND INTERFERENCE
37-G3.1 General
37-G3.2 Intermodulation
37-G3.3 Blocking
37-G3.4 Selectivity
37-G3.5 Spurious response
37-G4 MANAGING IN-BAND INTERFERENCE
38-G4.2 Taking account of spectrum planning policy
38-G5 MANAGING OUT-OF-BAND INTERFERENCE
39-G6 LICENSING
39-G7 FREQUENCY ASSIGNMENT
39-G7.1 General
40-G7.2 Change of site
40-G8 ANTENNA AND RADIO SYSTEM DESIGN
40-G8.1 General
40-G8.2 Preventing equipment malfunction
41-G9 INTERFERENCE RESOLUTION
43-APPENDIX H - MANAGEMENT OF EMR SITE SAFETY
43-H1 EMR SITE SAFETY
43-H1.1 General
43-H1.2 EMR site safety documentation
43-H1.3 Site access register
44-H1.4 Safe work procedure
44-H1.5 EMR evaluation
44-H1.6 Access controls
44-H1.7 Procedures for suspected EMR overexposure
44-H1.8 Site equipment list
44-H1.9 EMR prediction or measurement report
44-H1.10 Site compliance certificate
44-H1.11 Documentation version control
45-H2 GENERAL RF HAZARDS
45-H3 CHANGING SITE EQUIPMENT
46-APPENDIX I - COMMUNITY CONSULTATION
46-I1 GENERAL
46-I2 DESIRED OUTCOMES
46-I3 DETERMINING SIZE AND SCOPE OF THE CONSULTATION PLAN
46-I3.1 General
46-I3.2 Stakeholder analysis
47-I3.3 Consultation tools
48-I4 ONGOING COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY
49-APPENDIX J - LF, MF AND HF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING FACILITIES
49-J1 GENERAL PROPAGATION CHARACTERIZTICS
49-J2 ANTENNA CHARACTERIZTICS
49-J2.1 General characteriztics
49-J2.2 MF antennas
49-J2.3 HF antennas
50-J3 TERRAIN REQUIREMENTS
50-J3.1 Selection
50-J3.2 Ground surface
50-J3.3 Reflecting surface (HF)
51-J4 TRANSMITTING FACILITIES
51-J4.1 Interference
51-J4.2 Other transmitting facilities
52-J4.3 Re-radiators
52-J5 HF RECEIVING FACILITIES
52-J5.1 General
52-J5.2 Atmospheric noise
52-J5.3 Galactic noise
52-J5.4 Man-made noise
54-APPENDIX K - FIXED LOCATION SATELLITE EARTH STATIONS
54-K1 SECONDARY FACTORS
54-K1.1 General
54-K1.2 Radiocommunications factors
54-K1.3 Propagation factors
54-K1.4 Interference factors
54-K1.5 Other factors
55-A2 PROPAGATION EFFECTS
55-K1.6 General
55-K1.7 Impact of ionospheric effects on siting of earth stations
56-K1.8 Impact of tropospheric effects on earth station siting
56-K2 INTERFERENCE TO THE STATIONS RECEIVING FUNCTION FROM NON-COMMUNICATION SOURCES
56-K3 INTERFERENCE TO OR FROM OTHER RADIOCOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
56-K3.1 General
56-K3.2 Space systems licensing
57-K3.3 Radiofrequency coordination