Today, 2008 November 19, marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the National Radio Quiet Zone in the eastern section of West Virginia and the western section of Virginia. This special Federal zone, implemented by the FCC, benefits the radio research of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia and the Navy Information Operations Command in Sugar Grove, West Virginia.
Ironically, in the 1970s, I was General Manager of a very, very small educational radio station just inside this zone, near White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. WLCR was a carrier-current radio station with a very weak signal that did not go beyond the confines of Camp Shaw-Mi-Del-Eca, a Summer camp for boys and girls. These campers operated the radio station under my supervision as Radio Counselor.
Coincidentally, November 19 is also the 67th anniversary of another facility benefiting astronomical education and research. On that date in 1941, well-known Astronomer Harlow Shapley, then Director of the Harvard College Observatory, gave the keynote address at the dedication of the 10-inch Siderostat-type Refractor Telescope of "The People's Observatory," at Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science.
More information on --
National Radio Quiet Zone:
< http://johnbrashear.tripod.com/wlcr.html#nrqz >
WLCR-AM Carrier Current educational radio station:
< http://johnbrashear.tripod.com/wlcr.html >
Buhl Planetarium's 10-inch Siderostat-type Refractor Telescope:
< http://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com >
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Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,
Friends of the Zeiss < http://friendsofthezeiss.org >
Electronic Mail - < [log in to unmask] >
SPACE & SCIENCE NEWS, ASTRONOMICAL CALENDAR:
< http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/#news >
Author of History Web Sites on the Internet --
* Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh:
< http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com >
* Adler Planetarium, Chicago:
< http://adlerplanetarium.tripod.com >
* Astronomer, Educator, Optician John A. Brashear:
< http://johnbrashear.tripod.com >
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries:
< http://andrewcarnegie.tripod.com >
* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh:
< http://incline.pghfree.net >
* Public Transit:
< http://andrewcarnegie2.tripod.com/transit >
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