CONTINENT OF MEDIA 06-08, August 30, 2006 
[with DXLD issues where you may read more]

*COM 06-08, made possible by Universal Radio, 
 http://www.universal-radio.com or 1-800-431-3939 for a catalog; also  
 sponsors http://www.dxing.com
*COM is about media around the American continent, not especially 
 shortwave
*Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) threatens to drown whole 
 classes of consumer electronics, See article in June 2006 IEEE 
 Spectrum http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun06/3673 [6-115]
*Comments were sought until Sept 25 on how to manage DTV adapter 
 vouchers [6-116]
*Timeline for DTV transition, 2/17/09 
 http://www.benton.org/index.php?q=node/1257
 but what about translators? [6-099]
*An IBOC haiku by Joe Miller [6-115]
*The IBOCalypse, article by Barry McLarnon http://tinyurl.com/h93g8 
 [6-109]
*Lack of HD radios even in new cars [6-103]
*Stephen Hill of Hearts of Space says HD is DOA [6-118]
*HD proponent critiques its marketing: 
 http://www.hear2.com/2006/08/what_i_dont_lik.html [6-118]
*Underground radio on VLF for rescuing miners developed at Los Alamos
 http://news.pajamasmedia.com/2006/08/01/9953764_Vital_Alert_Tech.shtml 
 [6-117]
*Uproar over satellite radios in cars retransmitting signals to other 
 cars on FM, Howard Stern overriding preachers [6-102]
*Hawaiian and California MW stations, 4 megameters apart, have to 
 protect each other from interference due to misapplied theory [6-115, 
 6-114]
*Alaskan bush stations at remote camps use group callsign WNJI929 on 
 3230 primary; also 4461, 4561, 5196 [6-108]
*COM 06-08, a.k.a. later as World of Radio Extra 72 ###