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There’s a US town where WiFi is illegal, so are fitness trackers, baby monitors, and most microwaves.

This is not the Twilight Zone, Its Green Bank, West Virginia, where most radio signals have been banned since 1958.

That includes wi-fi, cell service, Bluetooth, RC Cars, and anything else that creates electromagnetic waves.

Green Bank is the heart of The National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000 square mile box in the Virginias and a teeny bit of Maryland, where anything wireless is restricted by law.

That’s because there’s two things here that are too important to get messed up by your Bluetooth headset.

The first is The Green Bank Telescope. It’s the largest steerable telescope in the world. Scientists use it to listen to far off galaxies, but in order to do that, it’s got to be super quiet.

[It’s smooth to the width of 5 human hairs and can perfectly see a quarter from 3 miles away].
[But in order to hear faint noises from billions of miles, it’s got to be super quiet.]

Reporters like to say you can’t have a cell phone in the whole box, but that’s not true. Most of the NRQZ just has stricter rules, phones and wi-fi are limited to low frequencies.

But once you get within 10 miles of Green Bank, most radiowaves are not allowed. Within 1 mile, you can’t even run a gas engine bc spark plugs give off waves. 150 people live in Green Bank and some move there because of it.

I almost forgot the other reason for the NRQZ… It’s called Sugar Grove Station, and according to the NY Times, its used by the NSA to intercept communications for the Eastern US.

At this point, they’re probably listening so I’ll end it there.

Thanks for exploring with me. -Map Nerd

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