If you want to work at the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, WV (my stomping ground in ancient times), you better be prepared to leave
your technology behind. It's a little ironic, because they have some of the most powerful computers, receivers, and electronics you would ever hope to use, but all the local equipment is rigorously RFI-suppressed and tested in anechoic chambers before it is installed.
Check out
"The Enemy Is Us" (pdf).
Added: NRAO Green Bank is near the center of the
National Radio Quiet Zone. This is a much larger area (13,000 sq. miles) where all radio emitters by law have to be coordinated to minimize impact at NRAO.
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