ARPANSA - Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency

Maximum level of RF EME from this base station

The maximum level of RF EME from this base station (full power) determined from measurements at locations around this site was 0.026% of the ARPANSA Standard limit for public exposure.

Highest level of RF EME actually measured

The highest level of RF EME from all nearby base stations actually measured at a location near this site was 0.002% of the ARPANSA Standard limit for public exposure.

The Environmental EME Report for this site (dated 20/08/2007) lists the maximum EME level as 0.12% of the ARPANSA Standard limit for public exposure.

Base station address: Whitecross Road, Bli Bli QLD (See in Google maps). These measurements were taken on Tuesday 20 November 2007

Details of this installation are available by visiting the
Mobile Carriers Forum (MCF) - Radio Frequency National Site Archive website. Login as a guest and search for site number 4560005.

Detailed Results: RF EME from this base station

This table lists the range of RF EME values from the services present at this site measured at the location with the highest average value. An explanation of this table is here.

Operator/Service	Location	Low Power [mW/m2]	Full Power [mW/m2]	Limit [mW/m2]	Percentage of Limit[%]
Optus GSM900	5	0.005 - 0.030	0.011 - 0.061	4500	<0.001 - 0.001
Telstra CDMA	5	0.001 - 0.003	0.008 - 0.020	4250	<0.001
Telstra WCDMA	2	0.021 - 0.092	0.248 - 1.072	4250	0.006 - 0.025
Telstra GSM900	1	0.010 - 0.026	0.021 - 0.052	4500	<0.001 - 0.001
Combined	1	0.051 - 0.076	0.262 - 1.089		0.006 - 0.026

Note: The reported values for the CDMA and WCDMA services in this table are over-estimates due to the measurement techniques used at this site. See footnote for more information.

Detailed Results: RF EME from all nearby base stations

This table lists the range of RF EME values for each of the mobile phone downlink bands measured at location 1. An explanation of this table is here.

Frequency Band	Services	Measured [mW/m2]	Limit [mW/m2]	Percentage of Limit[%]
870 - 890 MHz	CDMA & WCDMA	0.035 - 0.060	4250	<0.001 - 0.001
935 - 960 MHz	GSM900	0.019 - 0.033	4500	<0.001
1805 - 1880 MHz	GSM1800	0.002 - 0.003	9000	<0.001
2100 - 2170 MHz	UMTS	0.003 - 0.003	10000	<0.001
Combined		0.060 - 0.085		0.001 - 0.002

 

Measurement locations - Click to enlarge

 

Footnote:

For this base station the measurement of demodulated pilot signals of the spread-spectrum technologies (CDMA, UMTS or WCDMA) was not performed. Extrapolation was done assuming that only the pilot signal was present when in fact a mixture of pilot and traffic signals contributed to the measured value. This assumption leads to over-estimates of the actual RF EME levels, typically by a factor of 2 to 5.

Further details may be obtained in the ARPANSA commentary on base station RF survey results.

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