
America’s “Quiet Zone”
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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The National Radio Quiet Zone
The national radio quiet zone encompasses 13 thousand square miles of the surrounding area. There are rules for the people who live there. If you want to install any kind of radio technology, it has to go through the quiet zone administrator. A guy at the observatory known as closely as like the quietsown cop. And he has a big van or truck that he drives around, and picks up these illegal signals.
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