ET Phone Home?

[W0LC]

Something, perhaps of interest: From CNN, 02 September 2004

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- An
unexplained radio signal from
deep space could -- just might be --
contact from an alien civilization,
New Scientist magazine reported
on Thursday.

The signal, coming from a point between
the Pisces and Aries constellations, has
been picked up three times by a
telescope in Puerto Rico.

There are other explanations besides
extraterrestrial contact that may explain
the signal. New Scientist said the signal
could be generated by a previously
unknown astronomical phenomenon or
even be a by-product from the telescope
itself.

But the mystery beam has excited
astronomers across the world.

"If they can see it four, five or six times it
really begins to get exciting," Jocelyn Bell
Burnell of the University of Bath in
western England told the magazine.

It was broadcast on the main frequency
at which the universe's most common
element, hydrogen, absorbs and emits
energy, and which astronomers say is
the most likely means by which aliens
would advertise their presence.

The potentially extraterrestrial signals
were picked up through the SETI+home
project, which uses programs running as
screensavers on millions of personal
computers worldwide to sift through the
huge amount of data picked up by the
telescope.

[K7JBQ]

Work 'em first, worry later.

73,
Bill

[WA3KYY]

What's the QSL route and has the DXCC desk approved it for credit?

73,
Mike WA3KYY

[W0LC]

They are only on CW too!

[KD5KUF]

Yeah? Well if they come on up to my frequency, I'll ragchew with them.

[K7JBQ]

Quote[/b] (WA3KYY @ Sep. 02 2004,10:33)]What's the QSL route and has the DXCC desk approved it for credit?

Box 88
Xybor

Pending

even the ET's are keeping CW as their primary mode, eh??

[N9YB]

How many green stamps is that DX gonna want?

[W0LC]

Probably some guy with a homebrew QRP rig, putting out a spur and since none of the astronomers can copy CW, have no idea what is being said.

Steps in a licensed amateur op.

"What are they saying???"

"Sounds to me like, Up, Up, Up Lid!"

What does that mean?

You don't want to know!

[KG4KWW]

I saw nothing in the article about CW. Dream On.