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Tune in the Universe! by Paul Shuch

By Marcus Chown

26 January 2002

Tune in the Universe! by Paul Shuch, American Radio Relay League, an interactive book on CD-ROM, $24.95, ISBN 0872598543

ONCE upon a time, only professional astronomers had the resources to search for intelligent radio signals from the cosmos. Now, with off-the-shelf satellite dishes and home PCs, anyone with a technical bent and a modest amount of cash can listen out for ET from their back garden. Let’s hear it, then, for the SETI League, the international band of amateur astronomers and radio hams that has brought about this revolution. Its executive director, Paul Shuch, has put together a richly illustrated…

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