Applicants for some radio services are required to file their applications through independent frequency coordinators (e.g. Geographic Area Licensed Services are NOT exempt from NRQZ coordination.

The applicable radio services include but are not limited to: Public Mobile, Wireless Communications, Maritime, Aviation, Private Land Mobile, Personal Radio, Fixed Microwave, International Fixed Public, Satellite Communications, Radio Broadcast, Experimental Radio, Auxiliary and Special Broadcast, Cable Television Relay, Amateur Radio, Personal Communications Service, General Wireless Communications Service. NRQZ coordination is required for all new or modifed, permanent, fixed, licensed transmitters inside the NRQZ, as specified for federal transmitters by NTIA manual section 8.3.9 and for non-federal transmitters by the FCC in 47 CFR section 1.924. Karen O’Neil briefly explains the NRQZ and the WVRAZ (Opens in YouTube)Įmail: NRQZ Administrator | Telephone: 30 During COVID Operations, this number is not monitored (voicemail only). If you are new to the Coordination process and/or the NRQZ, please watch the video below from our site Director. Open the tabs below to review the requirements, processes, and other vital information on the NRQZ. The NRQZ is bounded by NAD-83 meridians of longitude at 78d 29m 59.0s W and 80d 29m 59.2s W and latitudes of 37d 30m 0.4s N and 39d 15m 0.4s N, and encloses a land area of approximately 13,000 square miles near the state border between Virginia and West Virginia.

11745 (November 19, 1958) and by the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC) in Document 3867/2 (March 26, 1958) to minimize possible harmful interference to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, WV and the radio receiving facilities for the United States Navy in Sugar Grove, WV. The National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) was established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Docket No.

National radio silence zone