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mfb- t1_iyb4s5g wrote

Reply to comment by toodroot in Astronomers Worldwide Troubled by New 'Cell Phone Towers in Space' by IslandChillin

It can be a bit confusing, but if you check the map then it has gaps in these locations. I have a list of all of them, there are two holes without an explanation and something weird at the Polish border, but apart from that all holes are radio telescopes. It looks like actual signup is not always following the map 1:1.

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toodroot t1_iybalip wrote

OK so that changed. I had put in reservations for Owens Valley, Haystack, and the LMT in Mexico and was notified that the first 2 cells were opened... but that was quite a while ago now.

Other ones not there off the top of my head:

EHT: Kitt Peak and Mt. Graham AZ; IRAM 30m uphill from Grenada; NOEMA in the French Alps, and I know that Thule Greenland is using Starlink. The South Pole will likely want to use Starlink.

VLBA: Arecibo (the VLBA antenna didn't fall down)

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mfb- t1_iybh5uw wrote

Several radio telescopes don't have empty cells, indeed. I don't know how they decided on that list and it can change on short notice - it's just a software setting anyway.

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toodroot t1_iybjotr wrote

One nit is if they actually have customers in those cells -- no one lives near the LMT, NOEMA, or the IRAM30m, but actual people certainly do live near Haystack.

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