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Doesn't matter. Any intelligent alien species smart enough to interpret radio frequencies could also see the Oxygen and Methane in the atmosphere and figure out there's life.
Additionally, they'd see all the CFCs, and manufactured chemicals we've been dumping into the atmosphere and know there was post-industrial life. The way our sun's light interacts with our atmosphere makes a bigger signpost than any radio broadcast we can make.
We've been announcing our existence to the universe ever since the Great Oxygenation Event, if not before. All they need is a telescope and basic spectroscopy from the chemical signatures of our atmosphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Ariel/Studying_exoplanet_atmospheres_with_Ariel
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/spectroscopy-infographic/
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke