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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 05 > Gadgets raise a ruckus for pulsar researchers

Gadgets raise a ruckus for pulsar researchers

At the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, scientists can be foiled by everything from spark plugs to wireless PCs to a faulty heating pad

By Tom Breen / The Bulletin
January 5, 2009

GREEN BANK, W.Va. — Of all the threats to scientific research Wesley Sizemore has stymied over the years, satellites and cell phone towers don’t stick in his memory quite like the possessive old hound and its treasured heating pad.

Sizemore is an interference hunter,....

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