My uncle's old ham radio caught a weird broadcast last night

I was helping my uncle clean out his garage in Phoenix and we turned on his old Kenwood ham set just for fun. Around 2 AM we picked up this signal that kept repeating coordinates and a date... November 14th 1969. It sounded like a loop, not a live person. I looked up the coordinates and they point to an empty field out in the desert near Sedona. Has anyone else ever stumbled on something like that on a ham band?

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evan_harris1421d ago

Oh come on, you really think some ghost radio is sending you messages from 1969? Ham bands are full of random noise, interference, and guys messing around with old equipment. That "loop" you heard was probably just a weather station or a repeater broadcasting a test tone. Coordinates pointing to an empty field? That could be a former military site, a forgotten survey marker, or even just the center of a grid square. People have been retransmitting old recorded messages as jokes for decades. You're reading way too much into a glitchy signal from a dusty radio.

jennifer_west21d ago

Wait, @evan_harris14, do you really think every weird signal is just some guy messing with a weather station or playing a joke for the past fifty years? I mean, I get that ham bands are full of goofballs and interference, but a repeating message with a specific date and coordinates sounds a little too on the nose for just random noise. Unless your uncle's radio has a direct line to a desert prankster from 1969, maybe the aliens just wanted to remind us of something boring.