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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On site you often work from a PDF that was already out of date when it printed, so what gets built drifts from the plan.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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Microwave Link Planning

9 live tools

Antenna Utilities

9 live tools

Cable Utilities

7 live tools

Engineering Delivery

6 live tools

RF Utilities

5 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

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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73 tools · 71 live

Engineering Tools

Over 73 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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What Is Spectral Efficiency? Shannon Capacity, QAM and Real Throughput
RF Engineering

What Is Spectral Efficiency? Shannon Capacity, QAM and Real Throughput

Spectral efficiency is how many bits per second a link squeezes out of each hertz of bandwidth, and it is the number that decides how much data a scarce, licensed slice of spectrum can actually carry. This guide explains what spectral efficiency is, the Shannon-Hartley limit and a worked capacity example, how QAM turns signal to noise ratio into bits per symbol, why higher order modulation demands more SNR, how symbol rate, roll-off and coding set the real throughput, the gap between real links and the Shannon ceiling, and how adaptive modulation and MIMO push more data through the same channel.

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What Is Radio Line of Sight? Earth Curvature, K-Factor and the Radio Horizon
RF Engineering

What Is Radio Line of Sight? Earth Curvature, K-Factor and the Radio Horizon

Radio line of sight is not the same as what the eye can see, because the atmosphere bends radio waves back towards the Earth and lets a link reach past the visible horizon. This guide explains what radio line of sight really means, why the effective Earth radius and the k-factor of 4/3 model the bending, the radio horizon formula and the handy 4.12 times root height rule, a worked example for two masts, how the Earth bulge eats into mid-path clearance, why clearing the terrain is still not enough without Fresnel clearance, and how a changing k-factor can quietly break a link that looked fine on paper.

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What Is Rain Fade? ITU-R P.838, Rain Zones and Designing for Link Availability
RF Engineering

What Is Rain Fade? ITU-R P.838, Rain Zones and Designing for Link Availability

Rain fade is the extra path loss a radio link suffers when rain falls across it, and above roughly 10 GHz it is the single factor that decides whether a link stays up in a downpour. This guide explains what rain fade is, the ITU-R P.838 specific attenuation formula, how a rain cell is turned into a real hop loss with an effective path length, a worked 20 GHz example, how to scale the loss to a 99.9, 99.99 or 99.999 per cent availability target, what Australian rain zones mean for your fade margin, and the design levers that keep a link closed when the weather turns.

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