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BarnBuster

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was reading a fiction book and they mentioned this, didn't even know it existed:

The National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) was established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Docket No. 11745 (November 19, 1958 and by the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC) in Document 3867/2 (March 26, 1958 to minimize possible harmful interference to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, WV and the radio receiving facilities for the United States Navy in Sugar Grove, WV. The NRQZ is bounded by NAD-83 meridians of longitude at 78d 29m 59.0s W and 80d 29m 59.2s W and latitudes of 37d 30m 0.4s N and 39d 15m 0.4s N, and encloses a land area of approximately 13,000 square miles near the state border between Virginia and West Virginia.

https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/interference-protection/nrqz
 
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