$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Quiet Zone

Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by tombone12 on Sunday May 22, 2016 @01:26PM (#11749411)

Good place for a radio telescope though. And you can probably sell observation of known radio sources to the Russians and Chinese for a bit of money; I imagine it is useful for something to know the site properties of a NSA listening station.

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Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by walrus01 on Sunday May 22, 2016 @07:33PM (#11750761)

The people who do satellite SIGINT for non-five-eyes nations don't need to be told this, they already know. For listening to geostationary satellites it's fairly basic criteria, simply, be in a low population area that is RF quiet. The parabolic dish antennas at 9 meters+ are very, very directional.

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