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I would like to know please whether or not I can pick up alien radio signals from my backyard.

James K
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Alberto
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    Sure, you can try. My recommendation is to buy this amateur radio telescope (https://www.primalucelab.com/radioastronomy/spider230-amateur-radio-telescope.html) between several people.

    Also, you can directly help scientists find extraterrestial intelligence without the need of any telescope; here how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdDS4j318UpKjNcpe_LeQxQ

     – The Exoplanets Channel Oct 01 '17 at 00:36
  • In addition to the fine answer/comment above. After some 40 years of listening (not sure when the big ear was built), No nation on the Earth has found a definitive alien signal. If they are out there, they're hard to find. – userLTK Oct 01 '17 at 08:05
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    @userLTK - You’re talking about undocumented aliens??? /s – iMerchant Oct 01 '17 at 13:09
  • Sometimes, picking up terrestrial radio signals is a problem. – Mick Oct 02 '17 at 02:23
  • Only if the aliens want to talk to you specifically. They tell me I'm one of a very select group. – Carl Witthoft Oct 02 '17 at 12:24

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This is like asking "can I spot polar bears from my back garden?"

There is nothing that would stop a determined polar bear from coming into my garden, so it is not impossible. But unless you live in Churchill, its probably not going to happen.

You can get a radio telescope, and it would be able to receive a sufficiently powerful signal. But detecting alien signals is hard: so far we haven't detected any. Even with big detectors.

Can you detect aliens: Yes. Will you detect aliens: Probably not.

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