I stumbled across this while researching places with no cell or very bad service online - so I guess maybe some places in Palawan where I grew up are part of the PH version of the quiet zone ??? Or most likely its just bad service - But yes - there is a place in of all places the USA where there are NO CELL PHONES, NO WIFI, NOR, much Radio and TV transmitters! The Quiet Zone is a rectangle of land, approximately 13,000 square miles (34,000 km2) in size. It straddles the borders of Virginia and West Virginia, and also includes a sliver of Maryland. The NRQZ is centered between the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, and Sugar Grove Station in Sugar Grove, West Virginia. The Quiet Zone was created by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1958 to protect the radio telescopes at Green Bank and Sugar Grove from harmful interference. Today, the NRAO oversees the Quiet Zone, in agreement with the Sugar Grove facility. The Quiet Zone protects the telescopes of the NRAO facility, and the antennas and receivers of the U.S. Navys Information Operations Command (NIOC) at Sugar Grove. The NIOC has long been the location of electronic intelligence-gathering systems, and is today said to be a key station in the ECHELON system operated by the National Security Agency youtu.be/iTVLJeRQS5c
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:47:45 +0000
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