Hi All
There are quite a few quasi-amateur SETI projects happening in Australia as a visit to SETI informed me. All sorts of ex-communications dishes being adapted for gawping at the sky. While I tend towards SETI skepticism you'll never know if you never listen, so I still think searches are worthwhile.
In about 1990 someone here in Oz picked up a strong signal for about an hour, but it faded before another scope could be trained onto it. The source star was HD157881 (Gliese 673), which is 25.2 light years away in Ophiuchus and is a K7 dwarf. From the various bits of data available it has a luminosity of about 0.2 sol and masses about 0.67 sol. So it's just about right to have a planet in the habzone (0.45 AU) but just outside the tidal lock radius (0.43 AU.) Actually the habzone is more like 0.5 AU because of the excess infra-red so prospects are even better. The star has decent metallicity (x2.51 sol... huge) so it could be home to someone.
Now that SETI Institute is at last discussing red dwarfs as targets it might even get a good look at by their scopes.
Adam