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Safeguarding Australia's spectrum

One ecosystem,
built to safeguard the spectrum

noIM₃ is building one ecosystem for everyone who delivers a critical communications project: engineers, project managers, technicians and clients. Every design that flows through it helps protect Australia's spectrum for the projects of tomorrow. It starts today with the engineering tools and the ACMA register, done right the first time.

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noIM3 ACMA Spectrum Tool

One platform, every role

An ecosystem for the whole delivery chain

A communications project is never one person's work. noIM₃ brings engineers, project managers, technicians and clients onto the same project and a single source of truth, so the design, the schedule and the field work never fall out of step. Because everyone is working in one place, every project quietly feeds the same engine that keeps Australia's spectrum clean for the future.

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Engineers

Engineering still happens in disconnected calculators, then gets re-keyed by hand into the client's report, so the two drift apart. noIM₃ runs it through guided workflows, so every calculation flows straight into a client-ready deliverable.

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Project Managers

Progress hides in inboxes, spreadsheets and status calls, so it is already stale by the time you see it. One live dashboard shows where every project really stands, and hands work to technicians without the chase.

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Technicians

On site you often work from a PDF that was already out of date when it printed, so what gets built drifts from the plan. noIM₃ carries the live design to site, with jobs, materials and detail on one page.

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Clients

Most clients only learn where their project stands by asking, and stay in the dark in between. A clear window into their own project means they always know, with confidence built on evidence rather than reassurance.

Live Tools

Every calculation in one place

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ACMA Spectrum Tool

RF Coordination & Licensing

Interactive ACMA register visualisation with advanced frequency planning algorithms. Analyse every site, forecast growth trajectories, and auto-optimise your entire frequency plan.

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HF Link Planner

High Frequency Radio

ITU-R P.533-14 propagation prediction with interactive ACMA site selection, MUF/LUF analysis and ranked frequency recommendations.

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Intermodulation Calculator

Frequency Coordination

2nd, 3rd and 5th order intermod products to ITU standards. Visual spectrum analyser, system scoring and actionable frequency recommendations.

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RF Utilities

14 live tools

Antenna Utilities

10 live tools

Microwave Link Planning

9 live tools

Cable Utilities

7 live tools

Engineering Delivery

6 live tools

Electrical System Design

5 live tools

Digital Signal Processing

5 live tools

Leaky Feeder Design

4 live tools

Serial Communications

4 live tools

Fiber Optic Design

4 live tools

System Capacity Design

3 live tools

High Frequency Radio

2 live tools

Coverage

2 live tools

Frequency Coordination

2 live tools

Communication Rack Design

2 live tools

Network Design

1 live tool

ACMA

1 live tool

Reference Data

1 live tool

Our software complies with international standards

Reimagining the Australian Spectrum

The ACMA register, the way it should have always worked

Spending hours digging through the ACMA portal, rebuilding spreadsheets for every project, or waiting on answers about available spectrum is still the norm. That is exactly why the ACMA Spectrum Tool exists. It gives you a live, searchable view of every apparatus licence in Australia, so you can run coordination checks, build frequency plans, and understand your spectrum environment in one place.

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ACMA Spectrum Tool feature

Live ACMA Register, mapped

Every apparatus licence in Australia visualised on an interactive map. Filter by band, site, licensee, or geographic area in seconds.

Algorithmic frequency planning

Advanced algorithms calculate predictions for every single site, factoring in forecasted network growth and the full ACMA allocation plan across all bands.

Continuous compliance recalculation

The moment any selection fails a compliance check the entire frequency plan automatically recalculates. No gaps, no manual overrides, no missed conflicts.

Optimised for the future, not just today

Every viable frequency plan is ranked against current and projected conditions. Your selections are compliant today and built to withstand network growth.

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Proven in the field

On operational mine sites, MC² Engineered uses noIM₃ to validate underground frequency plans for intermodulation interference, and to generate the frequency plans that run production underground radio environments.

MC² Engineered

Underground radio & frequency planning

Everything under one roof

We know this stuff is hard. That is exactly why we built all of it

Spectrum engineering sits at the intersection of complex regulation, technical demand and fast-moving network growth. Most engineers are expected to navigate all of it with tools that weren't built for the job. noIM₃ changes that. Whether you need to run a coordination check, understand the regulatory framework, design a compliant system or build the skills to do it with confidence, it is all here.

Workflows · Deliverables

The Project Platform

Design through guided workflows that turn engineering into the client-ready deliverables a project actually ships, with project managers, technicians and clients connected around one source of truth. The engineering side is live today, with the connected roles rolling out from there.

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84 tools · 82 live

Engineering Tools

Over 84 professional calculators covering RF, electrical, comms infrastructure and network design. Built by engineers who use them on real projects. No subscriptions for the tools that matter.

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ACMA · Live register

Spectrum Intelligence

A live, searchable view of every apparatus licence in Australia, backed by an engine that reads the national register every day and stays ahead of where the spectrum is heading. Coordination that used to take days, ready in seconds.

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Practical · Field-focused

Technical Training

Practical courses covering ACMA licensing, AS/CA cabling standards and electrical wiring rules. Built for working engineers, not textbooks. If the knowledge gap is what's slowing you down, this is where you close it.

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From the blog

Technical articles and insights

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How to Get a Radio Licence in Australia: Apparatus, Spectrum and Class Licences Explained
Compliance

How to Get a Radio Licence in Australia: Apparatus, Spectrum and Class Licences Explained

Getting a radio licence in Australia comes down to one decision made early: which of the three licence types your service belongs to. This guide walks through the process step by step, from checking whether a class licence already covers you, to choosing the right apparatus licence type, to the fork between assigned and non-assigned licences that decides whether you need an accredited person, to coordinating the frequency, lodging the application, and paying the fees. It includes a decision diagram, a worked example, and an FAQ covering UHF radios, cost, licence duration and frequency choice.

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What Is an ACMA Accredited Person? Frequency Assignment Certificates and What They Can Certify
Compliance

What Is an ACMA Accredited Person? Frequency Assignment Certificates and What They Can Certify

An accredited person is an individual the ACMA has authorised under Part 5.4 of the Radiocommunications Act 1992 to issue certificates that support radiocommunications licensing. There are exactly two kinds of accreditation, and an accredited person does not issue your licence. This guide covers what accreditation is, the difference between a frequency assignment certificate and an interference impact certificate, the legal test a certificate has to satisfy, the obligations that sit behind the signature, and how to check that someone is genuinely accredited.

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What Is Noise Figure? Cascade Noise, the Friis Formula and Where to Put the LNA
RF Engineering

What Is Noise Figure? Cascade Noise, the Friis Formula and Where to Put the LNA

Noise figure is how many decibels of noise a stage adds on top of a perfect receiver, and in a chain those figures do not add. The Friis cascade formula divides every later stage by the gain ahead of it, which is why the first stage sets the system noise figure and why a lossy feeder run in front of the amplifier is the most expensive mistake on the tower. This guide covers noise figure, noise factor and noise temperature, the cascade formula, why passive loss equals noise figure decibel for decibel, a worked four stage chain that gains 2.9 dB purely by moving the LNA, how much gain is enough, the dynamic range you pay for it, Y factor measurement, and when chasing a lower noise figure buys you nothing at all.

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