North America
| Name | Location | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Radio Telescope | Algonquin Radio Observatory, Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada | 46 metre fully steerable dish operated by Thoth Technology, Canada's largest radio telescope. |
| Allen Telescope Array | Hat Creek Radio Observatory, Hat Creek, California, USA | 42 6-m gregorian offset dishes using log periodic cooled feed covering .5 GHz - 11.5 GHz. Operated by joint agreement between Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, and the SETI Institute |
| Arecibo Observatory | Arecibo, Puerto Rico | 305 m (1,001 ft), The world's largest single-dish radio telescope. |
| ARO 12m Radio Telescope | Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, USA | Previously operated by the NRAO, this telescope is currently operated by the University of Arizona's Arizona Radio Observatory, part of Steward Observatory. |
| Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) | Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Big Pine, California, USA | Heterogeneous interferometer array composed of 6 10-m elements, 9 6-m elements, covering frequencies ranging from 75–115 GHz, ~230, and ~345 GHz. Operated by joint agreements between Radio Astronomy Laboratory University of California, Berkeley, Caltech, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| DRAO 26-m dish | Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada | D. S. Kennedy 84-foot (26 m) reflector on an equatorial mount. |
| Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO) | Amherst, Massachusetts, USA | Operated by UMass Amherst |
| Green Bank Interferometer (GBI) | Green Bank, West Virginia, USA | Three 26 meter (85 ft) radio telescopes operated by NRAO |
| Green Bank Telescope (GBT) | Green Bank, West Virginia, USA | World's largest (100 meter) fully steerable single-dish radio telescope |
| Haystack Observatory | Westford, Massachusetts, USA | 37m radome-enclosed 90 GHz radar/radiotelescope; 9m radar for space debris tracking, 46m incoherent scatter radar, 26m L-band deep space tracking radar, 18m radiotelescope used for geodesy. Operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) | Mount Graham, Arizona, USA | 10-meter radio telescope operated by the University of Arizona's Arizona Radio Observatory, part of Steward Observatory. |
| Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) | Sierra Negra, Puebla, Mexico | A 50-meter telescope for observations at millimetre wavelengths, the largest single dish instrument operating in this wavelength band. |
| Leuschner Observatory | Lafayette, California, USA | A 4.5-meter single dish, prototype dish for the Allen Telescope Array |
| Long Wavelength Array (LWA) | Socorro, New Mexico, USA | A telescope composed of 256 crossed-dipole antennas currently under development by the University of New Mexico and the Naval Research Laboratory |
| Morehead State University 21m. | Morehead, Kentucky, USA | A 21 m. telescope used for academic research and satellite data retrieval and control. |
| OVRO 40 meter Telescope | Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Big Pine, California, USA | This cm wavelength telescope operated by Caltech, is currently being used on a blazar monitoring program at 15 GHz. |
| Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER) | Green Bank, West Virginia, USA | Thirty-two, two-meter dishes measuring 100-200 MHz |
| Solar monitor, two 1.8 m dishes | Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada | The first dish here was originally a backup for the Algonquin site, but when the ARO site was later closed its instrument moved to DRAO and became its backup. |
| SRI International Antenna Facility | Palo Alto, California, USA | 45.7 m parabolic reflector. Owned by the U.S. Government and constructed by SRI on land leased from Stanford University, the Antenna Facility is known locally as "the Dish." |
| Synthesis Telescope, seven-element interferometer | Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada | |
| Very Large Array (VLA) | Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Array of 27 dishes. Part of NRAO. |
| Very Small Array (VSA) | Cogan Station, Pennsylvania, USA | Array of 8 small dishes. Part of The SETI League's Project Argus initiative. |
| Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) | Socorro, New Mexico USA (operations center) |
Array system of 10 radio telescopes; dishes are located at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, Owens Valley, California, Brewster, Washington, Kitt Peak, Arizona, Pie Town, New Mexico, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Fort Davis, Texas, North Liberty, Iowa, Hancock, New Hampshire, and St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. |
| Two 26 m dishes | Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI), Rosman, North Carolina, USA |
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