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Marilyn Creager

No Signal: Growing Up in Green Bank, West Virginia

November 9, 2019 Tagged With: Green Bank Observatory, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, National Radio Quiet Zone, NRQZ

Green Bank, West Virginia

I tend to speak about my origins as if I was from a foreign country, and not from rural West Virginia. I grew up in Green Bank, West Virginia, at the center of the federally mandated National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ), where interference like cell phones, wireless internet, and other devices are legally regulated. Read the Full Story >>

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