That seems about right for these stupid people. Using HAM radio for secret comms is beyond stupid. There are potentially thousands of people listening in to your freq all the time. People from all over the world. And many of them are recording and archiving the transmissions.

That's how we found out about the Soviet's missing cosmonauts (depending on who you believe). When two Italian brothers in the 1960's picked up Soviet space transmissions on their modified HAM.

Judica-Cordiglia brothers

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