Originally posted by HoutHans I know about the sensitivity of these things, but I just hadn't heard of such strict rules. So there are people out there with Faraday cages around their microwaves. That's sweet.
Oh yes, they have the federal government protecting them from regular radio transmissions and the state government giving them all kinds of authority. You almost travel back to the 1950s when you visit the area.
Thus, we had very little cell phone access while we were there - only small patches that apparently didn't propagate back to the telescope; my wife said "Now how did we do things before cell phones?" when were trying to find something. Their state-provided authority means they have to work with others, but they have the upper hand; the story about the microwave oven was told to us by one of the workers at a logging-railroad-turned-tourist-railroad some distance away who was surprised that they had noticed her purchase - but their instruments had detected its use and there they were.