{"id":11102,"date":"2014-10-15T11:04:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T15:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11102"},"modified":"2014-10-15T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T15:04:57","slug":"living-in-a-national-radio-quiet-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/living-in-a-national-radio-quiet-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in a National Radio Quiet Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11106\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Creager_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11106\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11106\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Creager_large.jpg\" alt=\"The Green Bank Telescope: An impressive parabolic dish covering 2.3 acres, the GBT has the largest collecting area of any fully-steerable telescope in the world. (Photo: R. Creager, NRAO\/AUI\/NSF)\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Creager_large.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Creager_large-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Green Bank Telescope: An impressive parabolic dish covering 2.3 acres, the GBT has the largest collecting area of any fully-steerable telescope in the world. (Photo: R. Creager, NRAO\/AUI\/NSF)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Paul, who shares <a title=\"View on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iTVLJeRQS5c\" target=\"_blank\">this National Geographic video<\/a> about Green Bank, West Virginia, USA&#8211;home of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iTVLJeRQS5c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My wife and I took a camping trip to\u00a0Green Bank in the late 1990s when the massive Green Bank Telescope was about 80% complete. The NRAO site is inspiring\u00a0and you (of course) will find no better place on the east coast for RF quiet conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The staff at the NRAO give daily tours throughout the year&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/public.nrao.edu\/tours\/visitgbt\" target=\"_blank\">click here to view the schedule and costs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m overdue for another visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Paul, who shares this National Geographic video about Green Bank, West Virginia, USA&#8211;home of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): My wife and I took a camping trip to\u00a0Green Bank in the late 1990s when the massive Green Bank Telescope was about 80% complete. The NRAO site is inspiring\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,304],"tags":[584,3318,3319,579,4089,581,453],"class_list":["post-11102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos","tag-green-bank-telescope","tag-green-bank-wv","tag-national-radio-quiet-zone","tag-nrao","tag-qrm","tag-radio-astronomy","tag-rfi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2T4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13312,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/national-radio-quiet-zone-featured-in-bbc-radio-4-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":11102,"position":0},"title":"National Radio Quiet Zone featured in BBC Radio 4 series","author":"Thomas","date":"May 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0David Freeborough, who shares this brilliant, in-depth radio documentary featured on the BBC News and BBC Radio 4. 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