New functionality to address not receiving raw data updates from the FCC.

New functionality in FCCdata.org ~ As you may know, there are times when the FCC does not update the raw data in time for morning business at REC. When this happens, we are unable to deliver the previous day's business in the various REC tools such as FCCdata.org. To deal with this, we have put in some functionality into our back-end to "scrape" basic engineering information on FM records from the FCC Public Access website that would be used in the event the FCC misses the update. When this data is used, you will see a red "T" in the header of the engineering record and a message indicating this is a temporary version of the record. Not all data elements will show but there should be enough to describe the proposed facility.

 

Date: 
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Systems affected: 
FCCdata.org
Issue type: 
Enhancement