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Exploring Mexico’s Zone of Silence, Where Radio Signals Fail and Meteorites Crash

The Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle has its fair share of alien rumors.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/exploring-mexicos-zone-of-silence-where-radio-signals-fail-and-meteorites-crash
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The Zeta Cartel built a series of repeaters across that part of Mexico. As the Zeta's started out as a branch of the Mexican Special Forces, trained by the U.S. and the Israeli's to interdict the illicit transit of drugs, they were equipped with state of the art communications gear and training on how to use it. When they saw the money the cartel's were making, many of them went rogue, and used their equipment and training to get into the game.

I bet their radio's work in the Zona Silencio. Heck, they probably know the whereabouts of Radio Bob? He was always trying to track down his Urantian Space Brothers.   

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Interesting story. I wonder if there are any such 'zones of silence' in the US, Canada, or other places? I know there are areas with some magnetic anomalies, and sometimes those anomalies are marked on FAA VFR maps for pilots (usually informing them that your compass may be off a few degrees). But zones of silence? that's new info to me.
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The Green Bank Radio Observatory in WV is in a dead zone. It's why the place was built there, it's literally in the middle of nowhere. 

It's just east of the Allegheny Front and at the beginning of the Ridge and Valley region of the Eastern Appalachians. Millions of years ago a chunk of what was then then Africa hit the east coast of proto-North America and caused a limestone plate to fold and form the Ridge and Valley Region. It ran over old volcanoes in the region, giving rise to the hot springs in the area. The mountain that looms behind the Observatory is sandstone, like all of the bedrock for 200 plus miles west.

When the place was built, laws were enacted to restrict the power of TV and stations in the region to keep the dead zone dead. There's a network of FM repeaters based in a town to the south to provide news and weather info to the locals. It's an area of heavy snows.

A few miles north of Green Bank there was Naval base built at 4300 feet above sea level and 200 miles from the coast. Strange,eh? It was there to take advantage of the silent zone. It monitored Soviet submarine and spy ship traffic in Atlantic. When 9/11 happened, the listening antenna's were modified and turned inward to monitor cellphone and radio traffic in this country.

The place was sold to a private group a few years back. Who knows what their plans for the place are? It's not far from tourist area's, maybe they'll make it a playland for the kiddies?