The Wow! signal was a transmission detected by the SETI Professor Jerry Ehman in August 1977 while working on a radio telescope in Ohio state. Professor Ehman was so excited, he wrote "wow" in the margins of the print-out on which he detected the transmission. The signal itself was thirty times stronger than galactic background noise. It was transmitted and received on the twenty-one centimeter frequency, which no satellite transmitters were allowed to use.
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| - The Wow! signal was a transmission detected by the SETI Professor Jerry Ehman in August 1977 while working on a radio telescope in Ohio state. Professor Ehman was so excited, he wrote "wow" in the margins of the print-out on which he detected the transmission. The signal itself was thirty times stronger than galactic background noise. It was transmitted and received on the twenty-one centimeter frequency, which no satellite transmitters were allowed to use.
- The Wow! signal was a strong, narrowband radio signal detected by Dr. Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977 while working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University. The signal bore expected hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-solar system origin. It lasted for 72 seconds, the full duration Big Ear observed it, but has not been detected again. It has been the focus of attention in the mainstream media when talking about SETI results.
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| - The Wow! signal was a transmission detected by the SETI Professor Jerry Ehman in August 1977 while working on a radio telescope in Ohio state. Professor Ehman was so excited, he wrote "wow" in the margins of the print-out on which he detected the transmission. The signal itself was thirty times stronger than galactic background noise. It was transmitted and received on the twenty-one centimeter frequency, which no satellite transmitters were allowed to use. The signal was intermittent, like morse code, and seemed to turn itself on while in the radio telescope’s beam. Until 1994, the Wow! signal was considered the best evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. (TXF: "Little Green Men")
- The Wow! signal was a strong, narrowband radio signal detected by Dr. Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977 while working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University. The signal bore expected hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-solar system origin. It lasted for 72 seconds, the full duration Big Ear observed it, but has not been detected again. It has been the focus of attention in the mainstream media when talking about SETI results. Amazed at how closely the signal matched the expected signature of an interstellar signal in the antenna used, Ehman circled the signal on the computer printout and wrote the comment "Wow!" on its side. This comment became the name of the signal.
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