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The purpose of the GBT is to capture extremely weak radio signals emanating from the farthest reaches of space.
#Radio silence zone trial
Diane encouraged them to come to Green Bank for a trial visit. Both women are airline pilots, and they had been looking for a retreat from the Wi-Fi and cellphones they so often contend with while traveling. Three years ago, Melissa Chalmers and a woman I’ll call Jane (at her request for privacy), met through Diane on an EHS Internet forum. There is a library, a post office, and a school, but mostly it consists of farms and houses scattered throughout a pastoral valley in the Allegheny Mountains, surrounded by steep, forested slopes. Green Bank is more a hamlet than an actual town. Fitting into a small town is a whole different story. More are arriving every year, and they’re finding that getting out of the radiation is the easy part. As a conductor on the electrosensitive underground railroad, she has helped, by her estimate, dozens of technological refugees find shelter there.
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Green Bank is her home now, and that’s given Diane a certain sense of purpose. But she can never return to the farm in Iowa. And while she says a stranger’s cellphone will still send bolts of pain through her head, she’s recovered to the point that she can use a computer again. Over the past several years, Diane’s symptoms have faded.