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Question 16

What is the National Radio Quiet Zone?

  1. An area surrounding the FCC monitoring station in Laurel, Maryland
  2. An area in New Mexico surrounding the White Sands Test Area
  3. An area surrounding the National Radio Astronomy ObservatoryCorrect answer
  4. An area in Florida surrounding Cape Canaveral

Explanation

The National Radio Quiet Zone is the block of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia drawn around the radio astronomy site at Green Bank, West Virginia. FCC monitoring stations, White Sands and Cape Canaveral carry restrictions of their own, but none of them is the Quiet Zone.

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