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"Shhh! Gadget racket threatens pulsar research"
« on: January 08, 2009, 1802 UTC »
AP Online
By TOM BREEN

GREEN BANK, W.Va. - Of all the threats to scientific research Wesley Sizemore has stymied over the years, satellites and cell phone towers don't stick in his memory quite like the possessive old hound and its treasured heating pad.

Sizemore is an interference hunter, vigilantly pursuing stray electromagnetic signals that bedevil researchers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which sits on 13,000 square miles tucked away in the nation's only radio-free quiet zone.

Radio observatories need interference-free zones like optical observatories need clear night skies...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/wires?id=124904063&c=y
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