SETI public: Still searching for the Wow! Signal

From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 07:45:29 PST

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October 21, 2002: A quarter century after a startled Jerry Ehman made his famous mark on the margins of a computer printout, the search for the "Wow!" signal continues. In the October 20, 2002 issue of The Astrophysical Journal, veteran "Wow!" signal-hunter Robert Gray and collaborator Simon Ellingsen of the University of Tasmania report on the latest efforts to find that elusive signal, the most promising one ever detected by a SETI program. This time Gray and Ellingsen made use of the 26 meter radio telescope in Mount Pleasant at Hobart, Tasmania. Here, for the first time, the researchers had the luxury of pointing the telescope towards the source of the "Wow!" signal for long hours at a time. Even so, the signal, so strong and clear when detected twenty five years ago, remained elusive.
The rest of the story here:

http://planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2002/Wow2.html

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