Where did the searches take place?
Project Phoenix was conducted at the largest available radio telescopes. These included antennas in Australia, West Virginia, and Puerto Rico. In order to quickly verify whether a signal was truly extraterrestrial or merely earthly interference, Project Phoenix used, whenever possible, a second (generally smaller) telescope located hundreds of miles from the primary instrument. Observations for Project Phoenix started in 1995 at the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. A total of 16 weeks of observing from February through May used the 64 meter antenna at Parkes with the smaller Mopra antenna 200 miles to the north. After upgrades to the electronics, Project Phoenix conducted 36 weeks of observations, from October 1996 to April 1998, at the 140 foot telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, using a second telescope in Woodbury, Georgia. The equipment was then moved to Arecibo, Puerto Rico, where the search used 2,400 hours of teles
