Wireless Signals Are Illegal in this Small West Virginia Town
By Kendall Russell | March 23, 2018
The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia. Photo: NRAO/AUI/NSF.
Could you survive in Green Bank, West Virginia? Settled in the center of the National Radio Quiet Zone, wireless signals have been banned from the 143-population town to prevent interference with the Green Bank Telescope. MentalFloss writer Lucas Reilly describes it as a “tech-savvy teenager’s nightmare.”