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REC is currently reverting to the previous day's LMS raw data file due to a FCC server failure. Until restored, REC systems are unreliable. ETU 1PM 7/3.
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WEEKEND PROJECT: FM contour maps...
By admin | 9:46 PM EDT, Thu July 02, 2020
We will be doing a weekend project to address LMS contour maps, mainly LPFM stations. During a period of time this weekend, contour maps may be unavailable at times in FCCdata/Denpahoso, LPFM.us and the VPIF system (lpfm.ws).
7/4 - contour maps updated.
Counteracting bad LPFM data in LMS
By admin | 2:39 PM EDT, Tue June 30, 2020
REC placed a couple of emergency fixes into various systems this morning to deal with the ongoing bad information coming from the FCC on LPFM records.
Modified back office systems and FCCdata to regard a station in which the app_antenna.aant_antenna_type_code from LMS is blank. Normally, this is the field in LMS that designates an antenna to be directional or nondirectional. Systems will treat blank entries as nondirectional facilities.
J1 Travel: JR EAST parser
By admin | 10:18 PM EDT, Mon June 22, 2020
Did a complete rebuild of the system used to obtain travel reports for JR East Japan Railway.
We have returned JR EAST to on-air, website, Twitter and the mobile app.
There may be some additional table building necessary to determine any new English language nomenclature used by the railway.
J1 Travel: JR East & New York City MTA, Mobile App
By admin | 12:44 PM EDT, Sun June 21, 2020
Installed some modifications and added monitoring to support the site changes at JR East in order to obtain train delay information for the Kanto region. Modifying the code on an ongoing basis to handle the new delay status messages from JR East. Any JR East delays that the system is able to decode will be displayed. All issues will be logged.
Until the new JR East interface is stable, we have curtailed all tweets from the JR East interface to the @j1_travel Twitter account.
myLPFM 2.0: false positives - contour map issues
By admin | 4:47 PM EDT, Fri June 19, 2020
We will be working on numerous bugs reported on myLPFM 2.0. This includes reports of missing contour maps, nonfunctional census information and false positives in results.
ETU: Sunday 9PM ET.
6/21/2020 1443 EDT
Determined and cleared the issue that was causing the false positive result. The Channel Search was not properly handling some LMS applications.
Determined and cleared the issue that was causing the lack of contour maps.
J1: Twitter interface for travel.
By admin | 4:44 PM EDT, Fri June 19, 2020
J1 uses Twitter to obtain service status information for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority trains, Metrolink and some Japanese private railways. After a 6 day outage, we have redesigned the interface to Twitter using their most recent API and we have resumed travel information on J1 and the (new) J1 Mobile App.
Twitter updates will be retrieved once per minute, 24 hours a day.
Metro and Metrolink updates will take place once per minute, 24 hours a day.
Japan updates will take place on the following schedule:
FCC.today: new Daily Releases section added
By Michi Bradley | 8:20 AM EDT, Sun June 14, 2020
A new "Daily Releases" section has been added to FCC.today. It will only be on the desktop version and will be located between Broadcast Applications and Broadcast Actions.
Daily Releases will track all of the new documents released by the FCC (from all Bureaus, not just Media) in order to provide a "first view" into newly released decisions and documents.
Clicking the news item will open a new browser tab and take you to that item at FCC.gov.
Releases made within the past 30 minutes will display with a yellow background.
LPFM and LMS map fixes in FCCdata.
By admin | 8:24 PM EDT, Wed June 10, 2020
Put in several modifications to the display and handling of LMS LPFM records that have extremely low powers and bring them back up to what they should be.
Fixed a bug in the display of FM maps on LMS FM records where an amendment was filed.
We note that there may still be some issues with LMS FM maps, especially for LPFM stations. We will try to fix those on the weekend.
Import letter update
By admin | 5:49 AM EDT, Sun June 07, 2020
We have done a major update of the CDBS import letters including our first retrieval of television import letters. In addition, REC now has copies of all FCC history cards that are associated with a facility in CDBS. This is a contingency plan in the event of a future decommissioning of the CDBS system and no replacement venue for this vital part of our American radio history. Import letters are seen on FCCdata on the lower right side of the facility screen.
FM Contours: phase 2
By admin | 9:49 PM EDT, Mon June 01, 2020
Last weekend, we had converted contours for FM Translator stations from using the FCC contour file to the system doing a calculation of HAAT and determination of contours. This was due to the fact that the FCC contour file had a considerable number of inaccuracies, especially with the applications filed through LMS post September 25, 2019. This past weekend, we have extended that functionality to include full-service FM, LPFM and FM booster stations.
Contours of Class B and B1 stations not appearing correctly.
By Michi Bradley | 10:46 AM EDT, Mon June 01, 2020
FCCdata may not be displaying contours of Class B and B1 stations correctly. We are aware of this issue an plan a fix ETU, 6/2/20 at 6PM.
6/1/2020 - 03:00pm EDT
Issue resolved. Related to new functionality that manually builds contours instead of using the FCC's contour data. Was not properly taking into consideration stations that had a 57 or 54 dBu service contour. 31 applications were impacted. Those applications were re-ran with the appropriate service contours.
FM contours in FCCdata frozen (except translators)
By admin | 9:37 PM EDT, Mon May 25, 2020
Due to the decaying reliability of the contours provided by the FCC on their flat files, we are moving to generating our own contours that will be used in the display of maps in FCCdata.
Display of applications in CDBS
By admin | 9:09 AM EDT, Thu May 21, 2020
The display of applications in CDBS is currently unavailable. This is a FCC server issue. ETU unknown. (9:50am ET 5/21) issue resolved by FCC.
Renewal status real time, new delayed renewal list, minor FCCdata fix.
By admin | 12:10 PM EDT, Mon May 18, 2020
Renewal Status Tool
The REC Renewal Status tool has been updated to interface with the data used to drive FCC.today. This means that prior to giving a result based on LMS data, the REC LMSBOT real-time data will be used to determine if a grant happened since the last LMS raw data update. If it has, the tool will display the grant and provide a link to the authorization.
Renewal Delays and Dismissals
