It was an amateur scientist in Brixton, just outside London, who stumbled upon The Wavelength. He thought he was constructing a small version of a radio telescope, but he missed the mark and was listening to a different kind of radiation, uncatalogued, uncategorized, and unused by humans. It was, however, still used.
Ian Davies just returned to his workroom in the third floor flat he rented from his mother, and, concentrating on not spilling his tea, he jostled the settings on his homemade electronic listening device. This adjustment, coupled with the vagarities in the instrument's construction, picked up The Wavelength. The incoming cacophony caused his headphones to rattle, which he luckily hadn't put on again yet. Scrambling, Ian turned down the volume and clapped the headphones over his ears and became the first human to knowingly listen to an alien broadcast.
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