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title: What’s in the National Quiet Zone? — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/whats-in-the-national-quiet-zone/
date: 2016-10-10
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# What’s in the National Quiet Zone?

Across 1300 square miles in West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland a strange electronic silence looms heavily in the air. Cell phones don’t work, there’s only one radio station and government officials patrol the streets searching for illegal wifi. Why?