Due to changes made by Mexico Instituto Federal de Telecommunicaciones (IFT) in their Sistema de Consulta y Preanalisis de Coberturas de Radiodifusion en Linea (CPCREL), we hade to make some changes to our backroom application used to read the data downloaded from this system. This system provides AM, FM and TV engineering data in individual KML files. In the latest CPCREL update, the IFT changed the file naming convention for the individual KML files. They also added information in the AM KML files that indicate a station's nighttime power.
We have completed those changes as well as a minor change to FCCdata to clearly indicate that a Mexican AM station is daytime only.
We are in the process of updating our data.
For FM and TV records, we also get supplemental information from the FCC Contours API.
Because of the extensive manual preparation work as well as the load on the FCC API, we will limit these updates to a couple of times during the year under our "mass run" process (or when we have been advised that there has been a major update).
