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.