Category Archives: About the Guide

Multi Selecting

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The Recent FCC applications page has a new ability that makes it much more useful. The main filters (several of which are new) allow choosing multiple options The application data goes back to about 1980 – so you could now … Continue reading →

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Application Party Search

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Fred Stiening

This has been available for many years, but off in a corner. Every party of every FCC application since about 1978 is archived by the FCC and made available in the CDBS data download. In my quest to be Better … Continue reading →

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Protected: Doumentation: adding an FX/HD station

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Fred Stiening

This is mostly for recall after I go senile, but here goes nothing. Using the example posted above, this is the objective: We want to be able to paste in the URL and have the editor offer up the option … Continue reading →

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1,086 new HD 2/3/4 channels!

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Fred Stiening

In case someone from HDradio wanders by today wondering why this service scraped their list overnight 😉 The list of all HD channels on the HD Radio ™ Web site has 3818 channels as of this morning, but you can … Continue reading →

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Expect outages this weekend

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Fred Stiening

This weekend, the plan is to migrate the web server from Fedora 20 to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu is working very well on the test machine, while Fedora has already slipped into unsupported mode, which is not acceptable. Ubuntu comes … Continue reading →

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New feature

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Fred Stiening

This was slapped together to help an editor from Wikipedia. It’s likely to encourage sharing of our efforts. With the new tools I created in the past month, average age since last review is down to 20 days, correcting a … Continue reading →

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Protected: Documentation: How Player Strings work

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Fred Stiening

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Playing with classified ads

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Fred Stiening

A friend wants to create a website for buying and selling goldfish (something like that), so I installed a classified ad system. Right now I have no plans to use this for real, but who knows? There are a million … Continue reading →

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Protected: Advanced Search

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Fred Stiening

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Protected: New Volunteer Application

Posted on September 8, 2015 by Fred Stiening

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