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California Amateur Receives SETI Technical Award

For more information contact: Dr. H. Paul Shuch, Executive Director
(201) 641-1770, or email info @ setileague.org

For Release After 17 April 2005, Please

TRENTON, NJ.., 17 April 2005 -- The SETI League, Inc., grassroots leader
in the privatized Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, has awarded
its highest technical honor to a prominent California radio amateur.
Retired engineer James Brown of Del Mar, CA, also known by his amateur
radio callsign W6KYP, today received the coveted Giordano Bruno Memorial
Award, honoring his significant technical contributions to amateur SETI
science.

Brown was one of the first amateurs in the world to build a radio
telescope dedicated specifically to the search for intelligent life in
space. Begun in 1978 (sixteen years before the formation of the
grass-roots, nonprofit SETI League), Brown's SETI station was powered by
Zeke, a computer he built himself before personal computers became
commercially available. Brown is now an active participant in The SETI
League's Project Argus sky survey, and has written extensive
astronomical, coordination, and signal analysis software, which he
freely shares with other SETI League members worldwide through his
seti.net website. When notified of the award by telepohone this morning
by Awards Commitee chairman David Ocame, Brown was in the middle of
running tests of his Remote SETI Client, which will allow SETI League
members around the world to operate his, and other, radio telescopes
remotely via the Internet.

The Bruno is awarded annually for significant contributions to the art
and science of SETI. It is dedicated to the memory of Giordano Bruno,
the Italian monk burned at the stake in 1600 for postulating the
multiplicity of inhabited worlds. This award was first suggested by
sociologist Donald Tarter, at a SETI dinner held at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science meetings in Atlanta on Feb.
17, 1995 (coincidentally the 395th anniversary of Bruno's death). Past
recipients include physicist Dr. D. Kent Cullers, WA6TWX; software
volunteer Daniel Boyd Fox, KF9ET; English amateur radio astronomers
Trevor Unsworth, G0ECP, and Ken Chattenton, G4KIR; Australian
coordinator Noel Cedric Welstead, VK4AYW; photonics engineer Dr. Stuart
Kingsley, German amateur radio astronomer Peter Wright; DJ0BI; Italian
space scientist Dr. Claudio Maccone; SETI pioneers Dr. Philip (W8FIS)
and Phylis Morrison; and Italian radio astronomer Dr. Stelio Montebugnoli.

Largely using radio telescopes and optical telescopes, SETI scientists
seek to determine whether humankind is alone in the universe. Since
Congress terminated NASA's SETI funding in 1993, The SETI League and
other scientific groups have privatized the research. Amateur and
professional scientists interested in participating in the search for
intelligent alien life, and citizens wishing to help support it, should
email join @ setileague.org, check the SETI League Web site at
http://www.setileague.org/, send a fax to +1 (201) 641-1771, or contact
The SETI League, Inc. membership hotline at +1 (800) TAU-SETI. Be sure
to provide us with a postal address to which we will mail further
information. The SETI League, Inc. is a membership-supported, non-profit
[501(c)(3)], educational and scientific corporation dedicated to the
scientific Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

P.S. Tearsheets are always appreciated. Thank you.

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-- 
H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D.    Executive Director, The SETI League, Inc.
433 Liberty Street, PO Box 555, Little Ferry NJ 07643 USA
voice (201) 641-1770;  fax (201) 641-1771; URL http://www.setileague.org
email work: n6tx_at_setileague.org;  home: drseti_at_cal.berkeley.edu
"We Know We're Not Alone!"

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