My project involves superimposing the 49.842 KHz frequency on top of the 1420.40575 MHz fundamental Wow! frequency to produce 1420.4556 MHz from the Plasma Ion Vacuum Chamber. Tau Sagittarii is the closest easily visible star. This region of the sky lies in the constellation Sagittarius, roughly 2.5 degrees south of the fifth-magnitude star group Chi Sagittarii. Converted into Epoch J2000.0, the coordinates become RA 19h25m31s and declination -26★7' ± 20' The Wow! Signal originated on Augfrom deep space at Right Ascension 19h, 22m, 24s and Declination -27 degrees 03m. An A-shaped aluminum foil ring will be used as capacitance for the IF mixer frequency.

The IF mixer frequencies will be 49.848 KHz. Waveguides made of copper, zinc and tin and using an amorphous structure on the glass will help keep plasma streams focused on the three phototransistors. Then, the erratic signal output going into a three-phototransistor network would be smoothed. But, phototransistors could be used outside the glass to decode the signal. This would look like white noise to an ordinary radio receiver. If you take our solar system as an example, the sun converts hydrogen into helium and that helium can be used in a plasma ion vacuum chamber as the gas medium through which a signal might be generated. I believe that this signal demonstrates a way that advanced physics can be used in my project. The bandwidth of the Wow! signal was 10 KHz at each of the two feedhorn locations that received the signal apparently from the constellation of Sagittarius in the star group Chi Saittarii. Also these may work in 'A-Doppler Shift' or as an 'A-Time Duration' matrix. In my project using these two frequencies, I will use both as Intermediate Frequency(IF) values. Rounded, these frequencies are 50 and 25 KHz. The 1/2 sub-harmonic of this differential is 24,924.115 Hertz. This frequency is very close to the hydrogen atom line frequency of 1420.40575177 MHz. Jerry Ehman determined the Wow! signal frequency to be 1420.4556 MHz. This comment led to naming of the signal.ĭr. An observer circled the signal's waveform on a computer printout writing the comment 'Wow!' in the margin. The signal matched the expected signature of an interstellar transmission. It lasted 72 seconds and has not been detected again.

The signal was believed to originate from deep space. The 'Wow!' signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on Augat 11:16pm during a Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project using the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University.

1977 72 second radio signal from space