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Green Bank Observatory is a location in Fallout 76, as National Isolated Radio Array [16]; The observatory is called Camp Echo One in “Captain America: Brave New World,” with Captain America entering a radio quiet zone in West Virginia where two telescopes resemble the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope.
The NRQZ includes portions of West Virginia and Virginia and a small part of Maryland. The National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) is a large area of land in the United States designated as a radio quiet zone, in which radio transmissions are restricted by law to facilitate scientific research and the gathering of military intelligence.
The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank, West Virginia, US is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, [1] surpassing the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope in Germany. [2] The Green Bank site was part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) until September 30, 2016.
NRAO was, until October 2016, the operator of the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, which stands near Green Bank, West Virginia. [3] The observatory contains several other telescopes, among them the 140-foot (43 m) telescope that utilizes an equatorial mount uncommon for radio telescopes ...
100-meter radio telescope on the horizon behind a local Green Bank baseball game. Green Bank is located within the National Radio Quiet Zone, which means that radio transmissions are heavily restricted by law. [5] This policy is enforced by a "radio policeman" who uses specialized equipment to detect signals from unauthorized electronics. [6]
Sugar Grove is located in the National Radio Quiet Zone covering 13,000 square miles (34,000 km 2) in West Virginia and Virginia. The zone was established by Congress in 1958 to facilitate its mission and that of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory located 30 miles (48 km) away at Green Bank in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Since 1984 ...
The 40-foot radio telescope at Green Bank Observatory in the U.S. state of West Virginia was constructed in 1961, and started observing a selection of variable radio sources in the same year, completing its observations in 1968. It became the first automated telescope in 1962.
The Reber Radio Telescope is a historic radio telescope, located at the Green Bank Observatory near Green Bank, West Virginia, United States. Built in 1937 in Illinois by the astronomer Grote Reber, it was the first purpose-built parabolic radio telescope. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989. [2] [3]