Green Bank, America's Quietest Town - BBC Click
There's a town in West Virginia where there are tight restrictions on mobile signal, wifi and other parts of what most of us know as simply: modern life. It means Green Bank is a place unlike anywhere else in the world.
Green Bank sits at the heart of the National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000 square mile (33,669 sq km) area where certain types of transmissions are restricted so as not to create interference to the variety of instruments set up in the hills - as well as the Green Bank Observatory, there is also Sugar Grove, a US intelligence agency outpost.
Dave Lee went to visit this unique area.
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The Largest Fully Steerable Telescope in the World | National Geographic
The Green Bank Telescope, located in Green Bank, West Virginia, is home to the largest fully steerable telescope in the world. Taller than the Statue of Liberty, and with a diameter equivalent to the length of three U.S. football fields, this engineering marvel is precise enough to capture the faintest radio waves in the cosmos. Using the data from the GBT, researchers and scientists are able to study the faintest radio objects in the universe.
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The Town Where Wi-Fi Is Banned: The Green Bank Telescope and the Quiet Zone
Tucked away in a valley in the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, is this: the Green Bank Radio Telescope, the largest steerable radio telescope in the world. And there are some rather special rules for the area around it...
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In this video I take a tour of the largest fully-steerable radio telescope in the world, the Green Bank Telescope. I include an informative part about radio astronomy and a fun facts part. Please post additional questions in the comments below and I will try to answer them!
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The U.S. Town With No Cell Phones or Wi-Fi | National Geographic
Pocahontas County in West Virginia falls within the National Radio Quiet Zone. It’s home to quiet country living, friendly people, and one of the most impressive engineering marvels in the world—the Green Bank Telescope. The GBT measures radio waves from throughout the universe, but due to the telescope's extreme sensitivity, any operating wireless device can have a negative effect on its observations. But to the people who live in the NRQZ, the restrictions and the quiet, peaceful life that comes with them are welcome.
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The Green Bank Radio Telescopes
The Green Bank Radio Telescopes in West Virginia - My video tour. I highly recommend visiting if you like history, technology, geography, and astronomy!
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In June of 1993, F&M MAFCO supplied the American S-70 Derrick for the assembly of the Green Bank Telescope. The derrick sat on a 200' tower for seven years for the construction assembly.
The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope and the world's largest land-based movable structure. It is part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) site at Green Bank, West Virginia, USA. The telescope honors the name of the late Senator Robert C. Byrd.
The current telescope was built following the collapse of the previous Green Bank telescope, a 90.44m paraboloid. The previous telescope collapsed on 15 November 1988 due to the sudden loss of a gusset plate in the box girder assembly, which was a key component for the structural integrity of the telescope.[1]
The telescope sits at the heart of the United States National Radio Quiet Zone, a large area where all radio transmissions are either limited or banned outright, to help the telescope function properly.
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Why Does This U.S. Town Ban WiFi And Cell Phones?
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National Radio Quiet Zone
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 Town Without Wi-Fi
The residents of Green Bank, West Virginia, can't use cell phones, wi-fi, or other kinds of modern technology due to a high-tech government telescope. Recently, this ban has made the town a magnet for technophobes, and the locals aren't thrilled to have them.
The Quiet Zone: Where Mobile Phones Are Banned
As we drive into the Allegheny Mountains the car radio fades to static. I glance at my mobile phone but the signal has disappeared.
Ahead of us a dazzling white saucer looms above the wooded terrain of West Virginia, getting bigger and bigger with every mile. It's the planet's largest land-based movable object - the Robert C Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) - 2.3 acres in surface area, and taller than the Statue of Liberty.
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Save The Last Great Telescope
The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope and the world's largest land-based movable structure. It is part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) site at Green Bank, West Virginia, USA. NRAO is located in the National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000 mile zone where all radio transmissions are either limited or banned outright, to help the telescope function properly. With the growing popularity of radio-array telescopes, the GBT may end up being the last single-dish telescope of its kind built in the world. Motherboard traveled to this remote part of West Virginia to investigate one of the last remaining vestiges of single dish big science and the people who are fighting for it.
On August 16, 2012, A committee appointed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) recommended that the Green Bank Telescope be fully divested from its inventory by 2017.
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The National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia
Marlinton, WV to Greenbank Observatory, WV
This is a timelapse of a road trip we took from our home in Marlinton, WV to the Greenbank Radio Observatory, WV (about 30 miles). We make stops at the Seneca Lake picnic area, Seneca Lake with camping cabins and the Seneca Lake campground. The campground is great, about 10 spots. $17 per night. No electricity, vault toilets, central water pump. Vid was shot day after Memorial Day, nobody there. Next video goes to Cass Scenic Railroad State Park. Third video goes from Cass back to Marlinton, via Back Mountain road. Does not show much of Greenbank, just the road to it.
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The Road to Green Bank
Playing with the camera mount on the VFR on the way to the Green Bank Radio Observatory in Green Bank, WV.
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Green Bank, WV in the morning
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GBT - GREEN BANK TELESCOPE
The GBT or Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia in the United States and is the largest fully orientable radio telescope in the world. The Green Bank site was part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory until September 30, 2016. Since October 2016, the telescope has been operated by the newly formed Green Bank Observatory. The telescope honors the name of the late Senator Robert Byrd, who represented West Virginia and pushed telescope funding through Congress.