Apr 16, 2025 08:50 PM
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/04/...ow-signal/
EXCERPT: In 2021, I published a suggestion that the enigmatic Wow Signal, detected in 1977, might credibly have been leakage from an interstellar power beam, perhaps from launch of an interstellar probe. I used this leakage to explain the observed features of the Wow Signal: the power density received, the Signal’s duration and frequency. The power beaming explanation for the Wow accounted for all four of the Wow parameters, including the fact that the Wow observation has not recurred.
At the 2023 annual Breakthrough Discuss meeting, Mike Garrett of Jodrell Bank inquired “I was thinking about the Wow signal and your suggestion that it might be power beam leakage. But it’s not obvious to me why any technical civilization would limit their power beam to a narrow band of <= 10 kHz. Is there some kind of technical advantage to doing that or some kind of technical limitation that would produce such a narrow-band response?”
After thinking about it, I have concluded that there is ‘some kind of technical advantage’ to narrow bandwidth. In fact, it is required for high-power beaming systems... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPT: In 2021, I published a suggestion that the enigmatic Wow Signal, detected in 1977, might credibly have been leakage from an interstellar power beam, perhaps from launch of an interstellar probe. I used this leakage to explain the observed features of the Wow Signal: the power density received, the Signal’s duration and frequency. The power beaming explanation for the Wow accounted for all four of the Wow parameters, including the fact that the Wow observation has not recurred.
At the 2023 annual Breakthrough Discuss meeting, Mike Garrett of Jodrell Bank inquired “I was thinking about the Wow signal and your suggestion that it might be power beam leakage. But it’s not obvious to me why any technical civilization would limit their power beam to a narrow band of <= 10 kHz. Is there some kind of technical advantage to doing that or some kind of technical limitation that would produce such a narrow-band response?”
After thinking about it, I have concluded that there is ‘some kind of technical advantage’ to narrow bandwidth. In fact, it is required for high-power beaming systems... (MORE - missing details)