The National Radio Quiet Zone – Where Wireless, Radios And Cell Phones Are Banned

Imagine a place on American soil where no radios, cell phones or wireless of any kind exists, not necessarily because the residents choose a quieter life, but because it's the LAW. Shared between the states of West Virginia (of all places) and Virginia is a HUGE 13,000 mile square mile swath of land, dubbed the National Radio Quiet Zone where lives the behemoth Green Bank Telescope, the reason for the silence.

It's so sensitive that if you placed a cell phone as far away as the moon, that'd be the brightest signal it'd pick up. If the 143 residents nearby used wireless technology it'd be the equivalent of trying to listen for a whisper at a rock concert! Watch for more on this fascinating topic...

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