Wednesday, August 31, 2016

A Signal for SETI? HD 164595


That's the Russian radio-telescope that picked up what was thought to be a possible signal from an extraterrestrial civilization.   This article from the SETI Institute has some interesting tech info on antennas and power levels.  Definitely not QRP!


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2 comments:

  1. 2E0CHKSeptember 1, 2016 at 2:45 PM

    Then the required power is 1020 watts, or 100 billion billion watts ?? Someone's building an amplifier...and its gone into self oscillation... in the star cluster

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2016 at 4:00 PM

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/first-contact-radio-emission-from-nearby-star-has-canadian-scientists-buzzing-1.3743016

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