Also known as ACMA Database Query, ACMA RRL Search, ACMA Register Search and Radio Licence Search Australia
Look up the ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences as a table: search across sites, licences, frequencies, assignments and licence holders at once, sort and page the result, and export it as CSV.
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Walkthrough
Type a call sign, site name, licence number, licensee, postcode, ABN or client number. The tool searches every field that could hold it and says what it searched.
Choose assignments, licences, sites, clients, links, antennas, conditions or changes. The choice is independent of what you searched for, so the same lookup can be answered in several ways.
At assignment grain each row carries the site, frequency, band, emission, EIRP, antenna height, licence number, expiry and licensee together.
At client grain each row is one ACMA client number with its name, ABN and the number of licences held. One organisation can hold several client numbers, and each is shown separately.
Open a client to see its licences, a site to see the licences there, or a licence to see its transmitters and receivers. The scope carries down from the row you opened.
The deepest level shows every field the register holds about one assignment, grouped by topic, with each group stating how many of its fields the register actually carries.
The summary counts the whole result set by service, subservice, status, licensee, band, state and expiry month, and each bucket can be clicked to narrow the search.
Choose the columns, page through the result and export the whole result set as a CSV that carries its source, snapshot date and any truncation.
Overview
The ACMA publishes the Register of Radiocommunications Licences, the public record of apparatus licences issued in Australia. It works well for looking up a licence you already know, and it offers column selection, CSV export and a bulk download. Its search, though, covers one kind of record at a time, so a question that spans frequencies, sites, licences and licence holders usually means exporting several files and joining them in a spreadsheet.
ACMA Database Query keeps the register data and changes the interface. One box takes a call sign, site name, licence number, licensee, postcode, ABN or client number and searches every field that could hold it. What a row means is chosen separately from what you searched for, so the same lookup can come back as assignments, licences, sites, clients, point to point links, antenna models, licence conditions or recorded changes. Every result has an exact count, page numbers, sorting on register columns and a summary that counts the result set by service, status, licensee, band, state and expiry month.
The tool reads a snapshot of the register rather than a live feed, so every page and every exported file states the snapshot date and its age. It is the table counterpart to the ACMA Database Map and shares its filters, so a filtered map view opens here as a table and a search here opens on the map. It reports what the register holds and nothing more: it does not say whether a frequency can be licensed, and the official register remains the reference.
Type a call sign, site name, licence number, licensee, postcode, ABN or client number and the tool searches every field that could hold it. When nothing matches, it says what it searched and checks whether the term appears in another view.
A row can be an assignment, a licence, a site, a client, a point to point link, an antenna model, a licence condition or a recorded change, chosen independently of your search. The same question can be answered as transmitters, as the sites they sit on, or as the licence holders behind them.
Open a client to see its licences, a site to see the licences there, a licence to see its transmitters and receivers, and an assignment to see every field the register holds about it. The scope carries down, so a licence opened from a site shows only its assignments at that site.
The register holds a link as assignments at two sites on one licence. The links view pairs them so each row shows both end sites, the path length, the transmit frequency at each end, the band and both azimuths. The path length is the great circle distance between the registered sites, not a terrain result.
A summary strip counts the whole result set by service, subservice, status, licensee, band, state and expiry month. Each bucket can be clicked to narrow the search, and lists that show only the top entries say so.
Derived columns add the frequency band, the channel label, the emission bandwidth and meaning decoded from the emission designator, and the days to licence expiry. Columns with no single value at the chosen grain are hidden and explained rather than shown blank.
Licence condition text can be searched by phrase, and each condition opens to the licences that carry it. A change history records the renewals, status changes, new issues and withdrawals observed since recording began, and the antenna view shows which assignments use each model.
Every search returns an exact match count, page numbers and sorting. The CSV export covers the whole result set at the chosen grain, with a preamble naming the source, the snapshot date and any truncation, and every search is a URL that restores the full query.
Inputs and outputs
Inputs 6
Outputs 8
Use cases
Yes. One search box accepts a licence number, ACMA site name or ID, licensee, call sign, postcode, ABN or client number. To search by frequency, use the assignment view and its frequency filters. You can then show the answer as assignments, licences, sites, clients or point to point links.
The official register searches one kind of record at a time, so a licence result carries licence columns but no frequency, site or antenna, and it offers no summary counts. This tool searches across records at once, lets you choose separately what a row means, counts the result exactly, pages properly and sorts on register columns. The official register does offer column selection, CSV export, a full bulk download, daily change archives and an API, and it remains the reference.
No. The tool reads a snapshot refreshed from the ACMA bulk data, and every page and exported file shows the snapshot date and its age, read from the refresh log. The display flags the copy when it falls more than a week behind. Where currency matters, check the licence against the official register before acting.
A licence usually has many assignments on many frequencies at many sites, so there is no single frequency for the row. The tool hides those columns, says how many were hidden, and points you to the assignment view where they appear. The same applies to site columns at licence grain.
The register often holds one organisation under several client numbers. The tool shows each client number as its own row rather than guessing which records belong together, and filtering by a licence holder uses the client number rather than the name.
A link is a licence with exactly two sites in the point to point subservices. Licences with three or more sites, and two site licences that are not point to point, stay visible in the other views rather than being reshaped into links. The path length shown is the great circle distance between the registered sites, with no terrain or line of sight analysis behind it.
Not usefully from the register itself, because lapsed licences are removed from it within a few months and almost every licence it holds is granted. The change history records lapses and withdrawals observed since recording began, and states the period it covers.
The export contains the whole result set at the grain shown, up to a row limit. When a result is larger than the limit, the file says so in its preamble along with how many rows matched, so a partial file is never mistaken for a complete one.
No. It reports what the register holds and nothing more. It does not say whether a frequency can be licensed, which depends on band plans, service classes, embargoes and coordination rules the register does not carry, and it is not a compliance determination. The ACMA decides licensing matters.
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