[Brandonmark]

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Appalachia. (CBS)

[cripplecreek]

Cell signals are virtually nonexistent at my house. During the summer I row out to the middle of the lake if I need to use my cell. During the winter I sit out there in a lawn chair.

[Gaffer]

Linda Taylor lives in Green Bank. It's in the middle of a 13,000-square mile swath of the state that in 1958 was declared by the FCC the National Radio Quiet Zone.

Apparently these people have not heard of the ionosphere with it's D,E, F1, and F2 layers that support very long haul refract/bounce transmission, or the troposphere, or of GPS, satellite downlinks, DBS, airborne Radar, ground radar, TV transmissions, etc. There is nowhere on this earth that is 'radio quiet'....