John, do you find this suspicious?:) I wonder if they are really using this for astronomy or some other military application. I know for example Harvard’s dish has no such restrictions more does the big one out in PaloAlto and I don’t think the one in Puerto Rico has any such restrictions.
Speaking of this, did you hear about the dish the Chinese are building? Twice the size or more than Puerto Rico specifically for SETI. That in conjunction with the Paul Allen array are pretty cool applications of radio technology. Thanks for pointing this out. Come to think of it, I think this telescope is a big part of the deep space relay network for probes, that might be the answer to the radio silent zone right there. > On Nov 9, 2016, at 1:23 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-rare-island-of-serenity-thanks-to-the-fcc/ > <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-rare-island-of-serenity-thanks-to-the-fcc/> > > For anyone who's ever been bothered by the loud ring of a > cellphone, or a loud-mouth on a cell phone . . . there's an island of > tranquility, if you will, in the West Virginia mountains. > Here, most gadgets that transmit aren't just unwelcome, they're BANNED by the > federal government. > > People do live here - they're just hard to reach. > > Linda Taylor lives in Green Bank. It's in the middle of a 13,000-square mile > swath of the state that in 1958 was declared by the FCC the National Radio > Quiet Zone. > > No Bluetooth, no Blackberries. "Can't use cell phones, you can't use > wireless," said Taylor. > > No problem if you're from here. But Taylor has to adjust when she LEAVES the > Quiet Zone. > > "It is weird because, like, if I'm out at a restaurant or something and at > the beach and my phone rings, I'm like, 'What is that?' And it's my phone," > she told Schlesinger. "So it is weird in certain aspects." > > The Quiet Zone was set up to protect the National Radio Astronomy > Observatory, a very large and very sensitive radio telescope listening for > the faintest of signals from space. > > "You want to be in a place where there's not interference, so it allows you > to hear much fainter signals," said Ethan Schreier, president of Associated > Universities, Inc., who oversees over the telescope. He said the telescope > helps us see the effects of general relativity by observing pulsars in orbit > around other stars or other pulsars. > > But it can't do that if somebody's on their cell phone. "That's right," said > Schreier. "It would mess up the signals and make it much harder to study." > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan > For anyone who's ever been bothered by the loud ring of a cellphone, or a > loud-mouth on a cell phone . . . there's an island of tranquility, if you > will, in the West Virginia mountains. > > Here, most gadgets that transmit aren't just unwelcome, they're BANNED by the > federal government. > > People do live here - they're just hard to reach. > > Linda Taylor lives in Green Bank. It's in the middle of a 13,000-square mile > swath of the state that in 1958 was declared by the FCC the National Radio > Quiet Zone. > > No Bluetooth, no Blackberries. "Can't use cell phones, you can't use > wireless," said Taylor. > > No problem if you're from here. But Taylor has to adjust when she LEAVES the > Quiet Zone. > > "It is weird because, like, if I'm out at a restaurant or something and at > the beach and my phone rings, I'm like, 'What is that?' And it's my phone," > she told Schlesinger. "So it is weird in certain aspects." > > The Quiet Zone was set up to protect the National Radio Astronomy > Observatory, a very large and very sensitive radio telescope listening for > the faintest of signals from space. > > "You want to be in a place where there's not interference, so it allows you > to hear much fainter signals," said Ethan Schreier, president of Associated > Universities, Inc., who oversees over the telescope. He said the telescope > helps us see the effects of general relativity by observing pulsars in orbit > around other stars or other pulsars. > > But it can't do that if somebody's on their cell phone. "That's right," said > Schreier. "It would mess up the signals and make it much harder to study." > > > > >> On Nov 9, 2016, at 12:52 AM, Scott Granados <scott.grana...@gmail.com >> <mailto:scott.grana...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Radio telescope, which one is this? I knew about the one at Harvard and the >> one at Stanford and of course the big dish in Puerto Rico but didn’t know >> about one in West Virginia. I’ve never heard of WiFi or other signals being >> banned near these, the one in Stanford sits right on top of a major peering >> facility I’m sure you’re familiar with.:) >> >> >>> On Nov 8, 2016, at 6:37 PM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> I was not planning on replying but anyway. There is an area of West >>> Virginia where all radio transmissions (including WiFi( are illegal This is >>> because of the radio telescope in the area. 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