In article <jsdlj0dfn4k5avrn62f10qsmagdr1e4fos@4ax.com>,
Trakar Shaitanaku <Trakar@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Such signals aren't discernable at 1 AU yet alone the 25,000 AU or so
to the next nearest star.

Whilst I might have reservations about the ability to recover even
the science payload (this was transmitted a lot slower than the
vanity messages), and I do have reservations about the duration of
the transmissions.  I am pretty sure that there would have been enough
energy at the signalling state frequencies to be detectable.  This was
not the South American (illegal) amateur radio transmission, it was a
transmission from a transmitter capable of interstellar communication,
even if commercially constrained to an inadequate communication time,
and therefore an excessive modulation rate.

I'm speaking more about deliberate beacons designed to be receivable
over the spans of interstellar distances.

The carrier component represented a real, if short lived, beacon signal.

I would say the signal was inadequate, but was capable of detection as
a one time event, and would, I believe have shown a strong artificiality
signature (three equally spaced frequency peaks).  I don't think the message
content would have been recoverable.

(I believe cosmic call did, one year, transmit from space and that signal
was too weak to be useful.)

The person commissioned to handle the engineering and science side sometimes
posts to these newsgroups, so I've changed the title to make it more 
obvious.