The goal of amateur SETI stations is to fill the void that are missed or un targeted by the Pro stations.  Amateur stations may in fact be successful in that they are looking at a larger patch of the sky. ( About  as much as you would see through binoculars.) Project ARGUS is organized by H. Paul Schuch and the SETI League.  The goal is to organize enough amateurs to monitor the entire sky, 24 hours a day. Each member monitoring their own patch of the sky. The second incarnation for my Waterville station will soon be seeing first light.  I will soon be receiving a new Low Noise Amplifier, to go with the SSB Electronics down converter.  This down converter takes the signal in at 1420 million cycles per second and reproduces it to 28 million cycles per second. This signal is fed to the RFSpace SDR-14 hardware and is converted to data for the SpectraVue program.   My strategy needs to be somewhat altered  in that it generates huge amounts of data. So much, that I would be collecting more than I can possibly go through on my own.  The existing programs that are available to analyse wave files can not work with these huge wave files and so I need to look at these files manually.  My strategy is to  scan the sky at 3.9 degrees wide at declination 44.39 degrees, but; at such a time that a close by Solar type star will be crossing the path of the beam. In my system there is a trade off between  bin width and band width. My strategy  will utilize this,  by  monitoring from bin resolutions  from 0.03 to 16 Hz  in 262144 bins, from 5KHz to 4 MHz bandwidth.