It coulda been months, you're right. And honestly the last thing I expect is to find an active signal. Comms that aren't being used are as a matter of course gone when we wake up after the jump. We never find the devices. Hell, there's hundreds of closed lockers in the medbay who knows what's inside them.

[ A question he puzzled twice a month without fail, without actually daring to try and do anything about it. ]

Something new. You sure know how to reassure a guy. But you're right, it wouldn't fit the pattern. Did I mention I don't like there being a pattern?