"David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:T1156877486@djwhome.demon.co.uk...

In article <fvo6f25j1rg8c9vl1l3smjabqs846m1bi8@4ax.com>,
f/fgeorge <ffgeorge@yourplace.com> wrote:

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:31:42 GMT, "Eric" <nospam@nospam.noo> wrote:

I know we transmitted some short burts a long time ago, but has there 
ever
been any consideration to do something more interesting such as:

Get a group of astronomers, biologists, RF engineers, etc together to 
come
up with the best "candidate locations" to transmit to.  Good "candidate

The Encounter 2001 people did some of this.  Their contracted expert
sometimes posts, at least to sci.astro.seti, which is a better newsgroup
for SETI, rather than SETI@Home.

locations" would be relatively near places with star systems that show
indirect evidence of planets, that show a spectral analysis possibly

They tend to show contra-indications of life.  In any case, the project
Phoenix target list is a ready made list of appropriate targets.

However, you seem to have forgotten the most important classes of people:

- the politicians to get radio regulatory approval and clear messages
 for transmission;
- the funders to pay for the real estate for antennas, the electrical
 energy, the continuing replacement transmit tubes, etc.

Now thats very interesting!  Going to have to google and read up on that.

Yeah, guess funding would be the biggest obstacle.   I wonder if any 
"canidate locations" are in the path of Arecibo and if so, how much it would 
cost to give Arecibo the capability to transmit at the water hole.  (Didn't 
Arecibo send a signal out once, but had to do it ~2.3 Ghz.?)