Changelog

Modified FCC FM portion of FCCdata to prepare for the 2023 listings for LPFM.us, the National LPFM Station Directory. 

Full listings (including enhanced presence on FCCdata.org) will be limited to LPFM stations that are either:

REC Networks has launched a Mastodon instance at LPFM.social.

Access to this Mastodon instance and the use of LPFM.social user names are limited to the following:

ISSUE:

On older applications, the "FCC Application" and "PN Comment" buttons are not showing.  

CAUSE:

Issue only happening on CDBS applications that are not also in eLMS.  Non-current legacy records.  New array method of gathering data with the implementation of eLMS-JSON does not pass the file number on CDBS records. 

RESOLUTION:

The legacy CDBS retreival function is now properly obtaining the CDBS file number and passing that on to the rest of the program.

ISSUE:

Using myLPFM to update the station's directory listing results in a blank screen and no change.

CAUSE:

Code issue. The problem happens when there were errors on the entry. 

RESOLUTION:

Minor code fix. 

TOK 12-13-22 11:45 AM EST. 

All 4 J1 Radio stations as well as Delmarva FM (as delivered via J1 and via DelmarvaFM.org) have been changed to the new Aiir player as the old player is being phased out.  Instead of a popup box, the player will now appear as a separate browser tab.  All of the modified features that were on the previous players (station selection buttons, the J1 INFO ticker and Japanese title streaming) have been included in the new presentation. 

ISSUE:

FCCdata advanced coverage maps are not reflecting the directional pattern of a station. 

CAUSE:

XX_coverage is not properly supporting the eLMS JSON formatted files.  

RESOLUTION

Modified the FCC FM Facility code and the xx_coverage maps to handle the passing of the LMS Application ID when the origination of the facility record is from the LMS JSON data.  

TOK at 11:00AM EST 12/11/22.

In this update, we have installed the functionality that provides detailed listings only to LPFM stations in at least one of the following categories:

We are in the process of moving DELMARVA-FM to a newer version on Rivendell on different hardware.  Until we get everything up and running, the stream may run either dead air, no connection or music from the fallback Auto DJ. 

 ETU 12-2 or sooner. 

For several years, REC had used a master application table (MAT) which was used to combine applications from CDBS, LMS and various internal databases such as the Radio History Project.  This single database table has become very big and bulky over the years.  

In Thursday's and Friday's heavy maintenance, REC completely rebuilt the system that processes the data received daily from the FCC on the LMS batch raw data file download.

The new methods are done in a manner that substantially reduces the amount of load on the database during the morning updates by only updating the changed and new items as opposed to a complete build of the LMS database.  

From 11/24~11/27, REC will be conducting maintenance with the LMS database facility.  This maintenance will be done to address system response, especially during periods of the morning update as well as repairing the raw data received from the FCC which is corrupted by wild line feeds.  

REC has deployed a second Twitter broadcast service, @EASSoCal. 

This Twitter service is similar to that currently provided by @DelmarvaEAS and includes all EAS and non-EAS alerts for the following counties in California: 

• Los Angeles
• Orange
• Ventura
• San Bernardino
• Riverside

The service is run once per minute, 24 hours a day during our normal CAP polling routine.  

ISSUE

Client advises that their registered station is not coming up in the test. 

CAUSE

When generating the SI file, the system was writing ampersands directly to the XML file instead of using an escape code.

RESOLUTION

XML requires certain characters (&, <, >,  single quotes and double quotes) to be "escaped" and not written directly. 

Prior to this change, FCC.today was displaying all alerts that came in on the IPAWS OPEN EAS feed.  This included Required Weekly Tests (RWT) and Required Monthly Tests (RMT) issued by state and local authorities.  

Based on user feedback, we have implemented new functionality in FCC.today which allows users to indicate which states they wish to view alerts from.  

REC Networks is a developer that has been approved by and has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to access and disseminate emergency alert information from the Integrated Public Alert Warning System Open Platform for Emergency Networks (IPAWS OPEN, or just IPAWS).   REC has no capability to originate new alerts into IPAWS, only to receive them.