ACMA
The full Australian Communications and Media Authority radiocomms register on a live interactive map. Search every licensed site, inspect frequency, device, and antenna records, buy instant engineering reports as client ready PDFs, analyse point to point microwave links, and build a managed licence portfolio in one workspace.
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) maintains the radiocomms register, the authoritative public record of every spectrum licence issued in Australia. The register lists tens of thousands of licensed sites, the frequencies assigned to each, the equipment authorised, the licensees responsible, and the expiry timing of every licence. For an RF engineer planning a new deployment, coordinating against incumbents, validating an interference complaint, or auditing a customer portfolio, the register is the source of truth. The trouble is that the register itself is not designed for engineering use. It is a structured government data source, not a planning surface, and the official tools provide only basic search and download.
The noIM₃ ACMA Database Map renders the entire register on a live interactive map and turns it into the planning surface engineers actually need. Every licensed site appears as a clustered marker on a Leaflet map with state level population overlays. Pan and zoom resolves clusters into individual licences. Click any site and a multi tab detail panel opens with the full licence record. Overview (licence holder, site name, coordinates, licence class, status, expiry). Frequencies (every assigned TX and RX frequency with emission designator, bandwidth, and power). Equipment (transmitter and receiver make, model and type, and every antenna with height, gain, azimuth, beamwidth, polarisation and tilt). Services (six purchasable reports and the ACMA lodgement forms). Interference (co channel, overlapping and adjacent channel neighbours with antenna discrimination and RALI LM 08 separation). Frequency Reuse (reuse patterns across the licensed band at the site).
Any site can also be turned into a deliverable without leaving the map. Six reports are generated instantly from the register and issued as a noIM₃ branded PDF a client can be sent: a Site Register Audit covering licensing standing, register consistency, coordination exposure and tenancy; a Frequency Analysis covering what is on air, who would be coordinated with, and the worst case level each neighbour could put into the site; a Frequency Assignment Feasibility report answering what could still be put here, reported as contiguous runs of clear channels rather than a list of single frequencies; a Licensing Review with a month by month renewal calendar and the actual condition text attached to every licence; a Co-location & Tenancy report showing who occupies what part of the structure and at what heights; and a Fleet Technology Review splitting analogue from digital by licensee. Reports that cover the structure carry a scaled tower elevation drawing, split across an overview and detail sheets where the structure is crowded. Every report states how much of the site each check could actually evaluate, none is a compliance certificate, and a purchased report is stored against the account with a fingerprint of the register values it used, so reopening it says whether the register has moved and offers a free refresh if it has.
Beyond the per site view, the workspace covers the higher level analyses engineers regularly need. Advanced filtering across 25 plus parameters covering licence status, expiry window (with an expiring soon flag), spectrum band, service type, emission designator, licensee name, and point to point link presence, with all filters persisted in the URL for sharing and navigation. Point to point link analysis identifies co licensed microwave and data links, renders link paths on the map, and surfaces both end site records, assigned frequencies, TX and RX pair details, and separation distance. The portfolio system lets authenticated users claim sites and build a managed licence portfolio with expiry alerts and aggregated dashboards. The spectrum band plan overlay places any frequency in the band plan context. The RF statistics panel aggregates frequency distribution, licensee counts, service type breakdown, and expiry forecasts across the visible map area.
The entire ACMA radiocomms register is rendered on a Leaflet 1.9.4 map with Markercluster grouping and state level count bubbles. As you zoom in, clusters resolve to individual licensed sites. Each marker represents a physical licensed location with access to the full licence record. The map updates on pan and zoom, and all filter, search, and portfolio state is preserved in the URL so any view is shareable and bookmarkable directly.
Clicking any site opens a comprehensive detail modal with six tabs. Overview (licence holder, site name, coordinates, licence class, status, expiry). Frequencies (every assigned TX and RX frequency with emission designator, bandwidth, and power). Equipment (transmitter and receiver make, model and type, and every antenna with height, gain, azimuth, beamwidth, polarisation and tilt). Services (the six purchasable reports and the ACMA lodgement forms). Interference (co channel, overlapping and adjacent channel neighbours with antenna discrimination and RALI LM 08 separation). Frequency Reuse (reuse patterns across the licensed band at the site).
Turn any site into a client ready PDF without leaving the map. Site Register Audit (licensing standing, register consistency, coordination exposure, tenancy). Frequency Analysis (what is on air, who to coordinate with, and how hard each neighbour lands). Frequency Assignment Feasibility (what could still be put here, as contiguous runs of clear channels). Licensing Review (renewal calendar and the condition text attached to every licence). Co-location & Tenancy (who occupies what part of the structure, and at what heights). Fleet Technology Review (analogue against digital by licensee, and how long each authorisation has stood). Each is priced separately, charged once, and reopened at no extra cost.
Every report is sourced entirely from the register and says so on its face. None is a compliance certificate, and a finding is a matter to check rather than a determination of non compliance. Every finding states how many devices or licences the check could actually evaluate, so a check that found nothing and a check that could not run are never presented the same way. Where a received level is computed it uses free space, the least loss any real path can have, so it can clear a pair but never condemn one.
A generated report is stored against your account with a fingerprint of every register value it was computed from. Reopening it compares that fingerprint against the register as it stands: if nothing has moved the stored report opens straight away, and if the site record has changed the panel says so and the refresh costs nothing. A report already sent to a client does not change silently underneath them.
Reports covering the structure carry a scaled elevation of the tower drawn from the register: every registered mount at its height, drawn as its antenna class, with the vertical gap between adjacent mounts dimensioned and each position labelled with height, azimuth, gain and bands. A crowded structure is split across an overview sheet and a detail sheet per level, so a 176 metre mast carrying 45 mounts stays readable.
Sweep a band and duplex split across the channel raster around a point and see what the register contains on every channel and on the channels either side, with candidate pairs ranked worst case first across both legs. The band and split presets are measured from where assignments actually cluster in the register rather than assumed. It reports what the register holds within a stated radius and never claims a channel is available, because what can be licensed depends on the band plan, service class and embargoes the register does not carry.
Filters cover licence status, expiry window (including an expiring soon flag), spectrum band, service type, emission designator, licensee name, point to point link presence, and custom band selections for P2P analysis. Boolean filters toggle directly from the map toolbar. All active filters are written to the URL query string, so filtered views are fully shareable and survive page reload without re entry.
The P2P module identifies co licensed point to point microwave and data links from the register, renders link paths on the map, and opens a dedicated P2P analysis panel for any selected link. The panel surfaces both end site records, assigned frequencies, TX and RX pair details, and separation distance. Filtering by P2P band lets engineers focus on specific microwave allocations (6 GHz, 11 GHz, 18 GHz, 23 GHz, 26 GHz, and others) across the visible map area.
Authenticated users can claim any site in the register to build a managed licence portfolio. The portfolio dashboard provides an aggregated view of claimed sites with status, expiry alerts, and quick access to individual records. The claimed sites panel plots owned licences on the map for spatial portfolio review. Useful for licence holders, consulting engineers managing client sites, and operators tracking expiry dates across a national fleet.
Aggregates frequency distribution, licensee counts, service type breakdown, and expiry forecasts across the current map view or the full register. Useful for understanding licence density at a candidate location, identifying the dominant licensee in an area before a coordination engagement, and forecasting renewal workload across a portfolio.
Live frequency band plan overlay aligned to the current map view. Place any selected frequency in the ACMA band plan context (allocation, service type, primary versus secondary, footnotes) without leaving the map. Useful when validating that a candidate frequency falls inside the right allocation, or when reviewing licensed activity in a specific band.
Coordinate based search to find every licensed site within a configurable radius of a point of interest. Site name and licensee text search with a recent search history. Nearby site discovery from any selected marker. Useful for early site survey, interference investigation, and licence application preparation where the question is what is already licensed near my proposed location.
Every filter, search, and view state is serialised into the URL query string. A filtered view (for example all 6 GHz P2P links expiring within 12 months in a particular state) can be shared with a colleague by copy and paste of the URL. Bookmarks survive reload. Distinct workspaces can be maintained for different clients or projects without overwriting state.
Reach for the ACMA Database Map in any of the following situations.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Radiocomms Licence Register, which is the authoritative public record of every spectrum licence issued in Australia. The map renders the register data live, and updates as the underlying register is updated. Every site, frequency, device, antenna, and service order shown on the map traces back to the ACMA register record.
All Australian spectrum licence classes covered by the register. Apparatus licences (the dominant class for fixed and mobile RF deployments). Class licences. Spectrum licences. The site detail panel surfaces the licence class explicitly, and filtering by licence class is supported alongside service type, band, and licensee filters.
The P2P module identifies co licensed point to point microwave and data links by analysing the register relationship between paired licensed sites. Identified links are rendered as link paths on the map with both end site records accessible from a dedicated P2P analysis panel. Filtering by P2P band lets engineers focus on specific microwave allocations (6 GHz, 11 GHz, 18 GHz, 23 GHz, 26 GHz, and others). Useful for coordination work, interference investigation, and competitive intelligence on existing microwave networks.
Yes. Authenticated users can claim any site in the register to build a managed licence portfolio. The portfolio dashboard provides an aggregated view of claimed sites with status, expiry alerts, and quick access to individual records. The claimed sites map panel plots owned licences spatially. Useful for licence holders managing their own fleet, consulting engineers managing client sites, and operators tracking expiry across a national portfolio.
All filter, search, and view state is serialised into the URL query string. A filtered view can be shared with a colleague by copy and paste of the URL, bookmarked for later return, or kept open in distinct browser tabs for different clients or projects. The URL is the single source of truth for the workspace state, so reloads do not lose context.
The Interference tab on the site detail panel surfaces co channel and adjacent channel neighbours with separation distance and a risk indicator. Useful for fast first pass interference assessment when planning a new deployment near an existing licensed site, or when investigating an interference complaint against a working network.
Six reports can be generated against any site, each aimed at a different question rather than one report sold six times: Site Register Audit, Frequency Analysis, Frequency Assignment Feasibility, Licensing Review, Co-location & Tenancy, and Fleet Technology Review. Each is built instantly from the register and issued as a noIM3 branded PDF with a CSV of the findings. They are priced in credits by the size of the site, or for the channel search by how congested the surrounding area is, so a two device site costs a fraction of a shared broadcast mast. A report is charged once and can be reopened at no extra cost.
No, and every report says so on its face. They are sourced entirely from the ACMA register, which records what is licensed rather than what is installed or radiating. A finding is a matter to check, not a determination of non compliance. Every finding also states how many devices or licences the check could actually evaluate, so a check that found nothing and a check that could not run are never presented the same way. The reports cannot verify actual radiated power, EME exposure, earthing, labelling or physical access, and by construction they say nothing about unlicensed equipment.
A generated report is stored against your account together with a fingerprint of every register value it was computed from. When you reopen it, that fingerprint is compared against the register as it stands. If nothing has moved the stored report opens straight away, so a document already sent to a client does not change silently underneath them. If the site record has changed, the panel tells you and the refresh costs nothing.
No, and it deliberately never uses that word. It reports what the ACMA register contains on each channel and on the channels either side within a stated radius, and ranks candidate duplex pairs worst case first across both legs. Whether a channel can actually be licensed depends on the band plan, the service class, embargoes and a coordination calculation the register does not carry. The band and duplex split presets are measured from where assignments cluster in the register rather than assumed.
The ACMA public website provides authoritative search and download access to the register. The noIM₃ ACMA Database Map presents the same authoritative data on an interactive engineering surface optimised for the work RF engineers actually do. Spatial map view with clustering. Multi tab site detail panels. Cross site interference and P2P analysis. Coordinate based search. Spectrum band plan overlay. RF statistics aggregation. Portfolio management. The data is the same. The presentation and analysis tooling is what makes it usable for engineering rather than only for record retrieval.
Yes. Portfolio claims and the associated metadata are scoped to your authenticated account. Claimed sites are not visible to other users and are not exported back into the public register. Useful for commercially sensitive licence portfolios where the customer relationship or the specific holdings are confidential.
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