2018AJ....155..254J

4C+15.05 (also known as NRAO 91, PKS 0202+14, or J0204+15) is a quintessential blazar. It has a luminous, variable radio spectrum, a super-luminal jet, and gamma-ray detections. Arecibo observations with the 700-800 MHz receiver on the 305 m diameter William E. Gordon Telescope detected, serendipitously, H I in absorption against 4C+15.05 while using it as a bandpass calibrator for another object in an H I absorption project. Although the redshift we derive is different from that commonly in use in the literature (nominally z = 0.405), it agrees very well with the value of z = 0.833 determined by Stickel et al. This absorption feature is best fitted by a sum of three Gaussians, which yield an average redshift of z = 0.8336 ± 0.0004, although without corresponding high-resolution imaging it is not possible to say whether the components are parts of outflows or inflows. A total column density of N(H I) = 2.39 ± 0.13 x 10²¹ cm^–2 is derived, relatively high compared to many radio-loud sources. These results are compared to various relationships in the literature.