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Wireless Signals Are Illegal in this Small West Virginia Town

By Photo of Kendall Russell
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.”

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