I was fucking around with my dad's HAM radio setup and I think I picked up some audio of anti-Nintendo (?) terrorists (?) planning an attack tomorrow on their walkie talkies or something.

BanSwitch2Buyers [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 1 day ago

I was fucking around with my dad's HAM radio setup and I think I picked up some audio of anti-Nintendo (?) terrorists (?) planning an attack tomorrow on their walkie talkies or something.

BanSwitch2Buyers [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 1 day ago

Here’s the transcript from what I can make out. They’re speaking in coded language, I believe.

LEMMY: SHY GUY, this is LEMMY. Do you read? Over.
SHY GUY: Yeah, I read. Over.
LEMMY: Is the race still planned (?, or banned) for tomorrow? Over.
SHY GUY: Yeah, LEMMY, everything’s still happening. Over.
LEMMY: Good. Good. I’m the road – rainbow road currently – carrying the blue shell for the race. Over.
SHY GUY: I’ll show 'em (?, or maybe that’ll troll them). Hope they drop more than a few coins (?) because of it. Over.
LEMMY: Well, (couple words I can’t make out). Over.
SHY GUY: Yeah, leave luck to (word I can’t make out, sounds like what Lemmy just said) Over and out.

invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net · edit-2 16 hours ago

Truckers? Could be teamsters goofing around.

Edit: You could also have just stumbled on some nerds at a local college planning a Mario Kart tournament lol

CupcakeOfSpice [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net · edit-2 19 hours ago

More likely truckers than hams. That’s not what ham radio callsigns are like, and hams look down on you for saying things like “over” at the end of your transmissions.

Edit: A ham radio might still pick up CB or whatever frequencies, but the protocol being used is not ham

PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net · 1 day ago

This is absolutely something i would do with my road crew before getting yelled at by the foreman.