On Monday, the FCC had released software that can be used to determine the protected channel/points of LPFM stations.

REC has ran this software and used the results to rebuild our protected channel/points database. In the past, this was done through the REC Channel Search technology but now that we know exactly which channel points the FCC is intending on protecting, the LPFM Tool has been updated with those channel/points.

To see the protected channel points for every market, visit the REC Channel Points viewer:
http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/chanpoints.php

Starting in mid-May, REC will begin development on revamping the Census support across the REC Broadcast Services family of products including the LPFM Search Tool and ENAC.

This project will include updating our existing products (front end and back end) from vintage 2000 census data to vintage 2010.

Unlike other REC projects, this project will likely be done on a "flash cut" basis where 2000 vintage census data will be used until we have cleared the 2010 versions from testing. Keep watching the Home Page and the LPFM Tool release notes for updates on this project.

This project may take some time as there are differences in the 2010 census datasets vs. 2000.

REC now supports short URLs for both LPFM Search and Broadcast Query using our lpfm.ws domain name.

LPFM Search

Just going to lpfm.ws will take you right to the LPFM Search Tool.

On LPFM Search results, you will see a short URL under the map. You can copy and save that URL to put in e-mails or anywhere you would use a short URL. Use that URL to retrieve that search (it will search the current condition at the time the URL is accessed again).

Broadcast Query

To easily look up a station in the broadcast query, type lpfm.ws/? and the station's call sign.

Examples:

lpfm.ws/?kfi - KFI - Los Angeles

lpfm.ws/?kfwb - KFWB - Los Angeles

The distance spacing tables used by the REC LPFM Search Tool will be updated for foreign allotments to show the maximum spacing necessary to prevent interference.