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Of the forty amateur radio astronomers attending the SARA 2000 conference at NRAO Green Bank, about half were SETI League members (up from one-third last year). SETI League photo

Bill Lakatosh, an accomplished microwave amateur who also works for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's lab at Charlottsville VA, discusses the design and construction of low noise preamplifiers at the SARA 2000 conference. SETI League photo

Walt Miller described a tone detector circuit for detecting meteor ionization trails by receiving VHF television carriers from distant stations with known video offsets... SETI League photo

... while Phil Gephardt's students are excited to hear the occasional burst of familiar music from meteor-trail recption of distant FM broadcast stations. SETI League photo

The 100-meter Green Bank Telescope was nearing completion during SARA 2000... SETI League photo

... and was in fact only a month away from first light, and its official dedication ceremony. SETI League photo

Tom Crowley, a SETI League volunteer Regional Coordinator, is seen doing a successful Cygnus A plot from the NRAO 40-foot radio telescope. Tom was elected President of the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers at its 2000 annual meeting. SETI League photo

SETI League Internet Committee chairman R. J. Fear distributed the first release of his RAOOS software package at SARA 2000. The suite of programs to support radio astronomy and SETI was introduced in Beta test version at the 1999 SARA conference. SETI League photo