Re: New SETI search

On 27/08/2024 06:24, El Kabong wrote:

Maybe space aliens will broadcast on 100 Mhz because it's
a nice round number?  Then again they might have 3 digits
per hand and use a base-6 system and think 60.466176 Mhz
is a nice round number where other hexadigits would
listen.  In any case you have to pick a frequency
somewhere.
 T

100 MHz is only a round number if you measure frequency in inverse seconds. Since the choice of time unit is arbitrary, picking a "round number" is a fallacious strategy.
Anyway, if you follow the breadcrumbs to the paper, they studied a bandwidth of 30.72 MHz centered on 113.28 MHz; the 100 MHz number is a simplification introduced by the clipping service.
It appears that this is a data mining exercise, where they examined a data set created for other purposes.
--
alias Ernest Major