Changelog

Placed REC-FM and J1xtra on new streaming encoding hardware due to failure of previous REC-FM hardware.  

Application history is not appearing in FCCdata/Denpahoso. We are aware of the issue and are working it. ETU, end of day 5/10/2019.

12:41PM EDT - This issue will also tempoaraily impact the display of TV records.  We are in the process of reloading LMS.

7:02 PM EDT - Issue caused by running out of disk space.  Some minor enhancements were made on how LMS data is handled.  At this time, FCCdata/Denpahoso appears to be operational. 

Launch a new calculation tool that allows you to enter a listener's address as well as the CDBS application ID of a "desired" FM station and an "undesired" FM station.  The U/D tool will calculate the HAAT and service contour for each station in order to calcuate the listener's undesired to desired ratio (or U/D Ratio).  This tool is to prepare for the new FM translator rules which require that a complaining listener must be within a 45 dBu contour of the desired station and that between the desired and undesired stations at the listener's location, the U/D Rati

FCCdata.org and Denpahoso.com has had some minor enhancements to the Radio History Project support in order to support FM radio.  We also made some fixes to both the AM and FM history grids.

Radio History Project has completed New York FM.  Attached, you will see a list of all FM and AM stations that were in the New York City Radio History Project update.  Our next stop for data entry will be Los Angeles. Currently, all AM stations and FM stations in the reserved (88~92) band have been entered.  Public Notices have also been entered.

FCCdata.org and Denpahoso.com now support display of data from the REC Radio History Project for FM radio broadcast stations.  The Radio History Project is an ongoing effort to digitize manual FCC History Card data into a fielded database similar to that used by BAPS, CDBS and LMS in order to provide as much of a full and complete history of a broadcast station as possible.

To give users of MyLPFM who are considering a channel change, as well as getting prepared for another LPFM filing window in the future, REC has made two enhancements to the results in myLPFM v.2.0

Super Power Stations

FCCdata for Mexico

Developed new internal processes to semi-automate the update of Mexico records.  Mexico is still a manual update that will be conducted once every few months.

IFT records now show a peak lobe on FM directional records (similar to TV records), we are passing this field on FM records in FCCdata.

Improved the presentation of digital television virtual channels.

Now using FCC instead of Google as an alternate resource for elevation data.  First source remains MapQuest. 

Minor cosmetic changes to Mexico dialscape screen.

Made some enhancements to the ARRR interface.

ARRR data has been updated.  All Enforcement Bureau activity for FM and AM §301 violations from January 1, 2017 to present are now loaded. 

Future projects will add the 2016 data and then back in time. 

REC Networks has retired the old FAQ Knowledge Base site https://faq.recnet.com and has moved all content to our main website https://recnet.com/faq.  

This move allows FAQ items to be searched using the search tool on the REC website and will allow for us to have better flexibility, be mobile friendly and improve the desktop experience.

REC has released a new tool that permits a very high-level search (for planning purposes only) of the availability of new Class A non-commercial educational (NCE) FM stations in the reserved band (88.1~91.9 MHz). The tool supports a maximum of 1,000 watts ERP. Measurements are based on HAAT along the radial towards the undesired station and the HAAT and ERP along the reciprocal radial towards the desired target. The tool is disclosed as non-authoritative and does not replace the use of REC professional services that take a full contour into consideration.

Since the loss of twitter/EEWBOT around August, 2018, J1/REC has not been able to provide real time Japan Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) and over-the-air emergency alerting.  

REC has obtained a new source for EEW data and we are once again providing EEW data.  A new watchdog program has been built that monitors a RESTful interface once every 2 seconds for new EEW messages. 

01/04/2019 - 12:00 AM

Due to the Government Shutdown, the FCC has disabled the Public Inspection File system.  FCCdata and denpahoso uses an API in that system to display a station logo on US FCC FM, AM and TV broadcast records.  During the shutdown, those logos will appear as "not found" images. This does not impact the actual operation of fccdata and denpahoso other than a cosmetic enhancement.  LPFM station logos saved in REC's Voluntary Public Inspection File system will still display. 

1/25/2019 10:30pm EST - With the reopening of government, NOAA NADCON has returned into service.

The government operated NOAA NADCON website which is used to convert NAD83 coordinates to NAD27 (and vice versa) is not available due to a lapse in government funding. 

As a substitute, you can use the REC NADCON tool https://recnet.com/nadcon 

The REC tool is not as accurate as the NOAA tool but is accurate to the tenth of a second, which still exceeds FCC requirements for coordinate entry.