We have addressed several bugs that have been reported or we have encountered with FCCdata.org.
Some amateur radio listings are returning error messages.
Amateur radio listings that are looked up in FCCdata for the first time make a call to the Google Maps API in order to geocode the location. The geocode data is then cached at REC until it is queried again and the address has changed.
Original Report - May 23, 2025 8:40AM EDT
This is a user reported bug. No information is returning from the FCC EDOCS API using either curl or PHP file_get_contents. Displays OK when displaying the JSON directly on a browser (Chrome/Windows).
REC uses this data from the API in order to display the latest FCC documents and news items on our site fcc.today.
Verbose output from CURL (using HTTP version 2):
Due to many issues, REC had been behind on updating the Enforcement Actions (Dingers) database.
The Dingers database has been now updated adding actions from May 2024 to April 31, 2025. Dingers is back to being actively updated on a daily basis.
Several systems at the FCC have been unavailable for nearly 24 hours as of March 13, 2025 at 6:50AM EDT.
Known systems with issues:
The FCC did not publish a daily digest on March 12, 2025.
ORIGINAL ISSUE
Issue
User report that assignment applications were not properly coming up in fcc.today.
REC report: Check of eLMS indicates that assignment applications are not parsing.
Cause
(root cause) FCC issue related to change: Former URL (with .html) discontinued.
FCC known issue: LMS overall performance.
Resolution
03-12-25 01:45a
fcc.today: Updated applications and actions displays to use updated URL for user links.
On LPFM.us, station listings are categorized based on a visibility status:
We are addressing the trouble reports received regarding myLPFM with the migration to System40.
We have fixed the issue where users were unable to upload images for RadioDNS.
We have fixed the issue where users were unable to upload logos using the "upload logo" function. Once uploaded, the logo may first show as either the previous one or a broken link. Clicking to a different screen should show the newly uploaded logo. This upload will also revise the logo in FCCdata and LPFM.ws
We fixed an issue with FCCdata where the LMS or eLMS database is showing no file number for an application. Users were not able to click on a link to view the application or engineering details. We have modified FCCdata so if there is no file number, FCCdata will show the text NoFileNumber therefore making the item clickable.
Radio History Project
FCCdata - AM engineering fix
Fixed an issue where FCC AM records were showing in the engineering section (left side) but no facility details were shown when the item was clicked. This was an issue associated with the recent retirement of CDBS. Records were not properly routing to the legacy BAPS data. This involved making changes to the underlying eLMS AM application list table to remove the references to application IDs assigned by LMS but contain no engineering data.
With the retirement of the FCC's CDBS Public Access website on January 2, 2025, REC has built a website that will replace CDBS Public Access on our own server.
The CDBS Historic Search tool has a similar look and feel to the FCC's retired tool and will include many of the features that the FCC tool had.
CDBS Historic View will only include applications and records that are in the CDBS data and is not a tool recommended to view information on current broadcast facilities that are now being handled through LMS.
REC has taken our efforts in the various projects over the past two weeks and is making them available free of charge to database developers. REC is making the following internal database tables available for download as open data:
REC Networks has finished the largest "mass run" project in our history. REC has been able to download and locally store most of the import letters from CDBS. Import letters are those correspondence from the FCC to applicants regarding specific applications or their facility in general. These import letters also contain the history cards.
Over the past few years, REC has obtained copies of import letters from CDBS based on facility ID. This includes many (but not all) history cards. REC had retained many of these documents in PDF form and others are in a text form as part of a past program that would convert the documents from PDF to text and then parse the form in order to determine what the subject of the import letter was.
With the recent FCC announcement that they will be retiring the remaining remnants of the Consolidated Database System (CDBS), the previous computer system used by the FCC to track broadcast applications, REC has been in the process of identifying and changing external and internal applications that links to CDBS applications and other resources in the FCC’s CDBS-related systems.
The Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission has announced that starting on January 2, 2025, the public access to the Commission's Centralized Database System (CDBS) will be discontinued. While all broadcast services have been transitioned to the License Management System (LMS), the CDBS Public View service has been retained. CDBS Public View provides users with access to the original versions of applications filed within the system.
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