RE: SETI public: Newbie question: Has anyone looked at CBR as a reference spectrum for SETI??

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From: Dr. H. Paul Shuch (n6tx_at_setileague.org)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 06:57:25 PST

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    At 09:27 AM 2/28/03 -0500, Bill St. Arnaud wrote:

    >But I am suggesting that we use the CBR spectrume profile as the
    >de-spreading function?
    >Alternatively is there a psuedo noise code that will generate a CBR like
    >spectrum around a given
    >carrier frequency ?

    I could be mistaken, but I thought the CBR was thermal blackbody
    radiation. If so, it should be distributed as a Poisson around the 3
    kelvin mean. This gives us the distribution, but not the sequence (and for
    direct sequence spread spectrum, we need both).
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