Well, not exactly… there is broadband internet facility in the homes of residents, they just cannot take it with them, when on the move.īut, get this… we are told by residents interviewed through the course of the program that if you go to watch your child take part in, for example, a soccer (football) game, every parent is watching the game, and interacting with one another. Hence the legal requirement, for a radio frequency free zone.Įssentially, here, “on the edge of society”, affording the ability to listen in to moments after the creation of the universe, means the local population have sacrificed their connection to the outside world. Anything man-made would overwhelm that signal. It has the sensitivity equivalent to a billionth of a billionth of a millionth of a watt… the energy given off by a single snowflake hitting the ground. Taller than the Statue of Liberty, the Green Bank Telescope is the world’s largest moving land object. It can detect radio waves emitted milliseconds after the Big Bang. The Green Bank Telescope gathers radio waves from deepest space. It took six months to erect the crane that was used to place the telescope on site back in 1958. The telescope is the largest fully steerable telescope in the world. Pochahontas County is home to the Robert C Byrd Telescope at the National Radio Astronomy facility, Green Bank, West Virginia.
RADIO SILENCE ZONE SERIES
Fascinated by it, I decided that I would listen to the whole series (five x 12 minute episodes) on iPlayer, come the end of the week.
RADIO SILENCE ZONE FULL
I was not actually on Highway 250, I was driving, with full radio signal, absolutely not glancing illegally at my mobile phone, catching episode one of The Quiet Zone. No Wi-Fi no mobile phones no radio signals. I was in the National Radio Quiet Zone – 13,000 square miles of radio silence, just a few hundred miles from Washington DC. Glancing illegally at my mobile phone I noted the signal had disappeared. I took Highway 250 in West Virginia into the Allegheny Mountains. To be fair, mother was pushing a pram and had another little charge at the end of her arm. He wanted his mother to share the experience with him. One of those rabbits with extra large ears. You can have ten minutes in the park and we need to go!”Ī little boy stood before us, looking into one of the animal enclosures, having spotted a rabbit. Today, Father’s Day, walking in a local park with my daughter.