{"id":2383,"date":"2020-11-27T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/11\/27\/6equj5-snr-the-big-ear-radio-telescope-and-the-wow-signal\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:12:18","slug":"6equj5-snr-the-big-ear-radio-telescope-and-the-wow-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/11\/27\/6equj5-snr-the-big-ear-radio-telescope-and-the-wow-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"6EQUJ5 — SNR, the Big Ear Radio Telescope, and the “Wow” Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Hack-A-Day article explains the significance of 6EQUJ5 on the paper readout of the Big Ear radio telescope. It is a signal-to-noise readout. <\/b><\/p>\n

The article also has interesting information about the radio telescope that was used. <\/b><\/p>\n

I have on my shelf John Kraus W8JK’s wonderful book “Big Ear Two — Listening for Other Worlds.” John Kraus is the guy who built the Big Ear. In a reminder of how new radio technology really is, Kraus got his start in radio as a ten year-old boy in 1920. He ripped the wire out of the ignition coil of a Model T Ford to make a tuning coil for a crystal radio. He took the earpiece out of the family telephone. His father gave him a chunk of Galena. He used the crystal radio to listen to the early broadcasts of WWJ in Detroit. <\/b><\/p>\n


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https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/11\/25\/the-wow-signal-and-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence\/#more-448808 This Hack-A-Day article explains the significance of 6EQUJ5 on the paper readout of the Big Ear radio telescope. It is a signal-to-noise readout. The article also has interesting information about the radio telescope that was used. I have on my shelf John Kraus W8JK’s wonderful book “Big Ear Two — Listening for Other Worlds.” … Continue reading “6EQUJ5 — SNR, the Big Ear Radio Telescope, and the “Wow” Signal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,108,100,30,31,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-crystal-radio","category-old-radio","category-radio-astronomy","category-radio-history","category-seti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}