I'm an amateur astronomer from Germany and of course a dedicated SETI-"User". Why don't you visit www.sternwarte-peterberg.de to get to know more about our observatory?
Clear skies !
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think extraterrestrial life exists, has never been to earth and we won't find it within the next several years. Nevertheless SETI is an interesting project which deserves support. As long as we don't really know what is "space", we should not bother ourselves with sending any signals "out".
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.