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 1.334% 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 0.083% of the ARPANSA Standard limit for public exposure.

The Environmental EME Report for this site (dated 24/06/2010) lists the maximum EME level as 1.23% of the ARPANSA Standard limit for public exposure.

Base station address: 123A Thompsons Road, Bulleen East VIC (See in Google maps). These measurements were taken on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 June 2010.

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 3105004.

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[%]
3GIS UMTS	2	2.661 - 6.993	38.465 - 101.084	10000	0.385 - 1.011
Optus UMTS	1	1.786 - 2.534	17.863 - 25.339	10000	0.179 - 0.253
Telstra WCDMA	5	1.095 - 3.568	12.004 - 39.119	4250	0.282 - 0.920
Telstra GSM900	5	0.189 - 0.497	0.757 - 1.988	4500	0.017 - 0.044
Vodafone UMTS	1	0.927 - 1.532	9.269 - 15.319	10000	0.093 - 0.153
Combined	2	5.785 - 9.361	75.546 - 124.945		0.779 - 1.334

Note: The reported values for the UMTS 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	WCDMA850	0.050 - 0.106	4250	0.001 - 0.002
935 - 960 MHz	GSM900	0.020 - 0.050	4500	0.000 - 0.001
1805 - 1880 MHz	GSM1800	< 0.001	9000	< 0.001
2110 - 2170 MHz	UMTS2100	4.955 - 7.963	10000	0.050 - 0.080
Combined		5.080 - 8.092		0.052 - 0.083

 

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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