It's not equipment failure. I get nothin' but dead air.
4 seconds sound clip from the The Angry Red Planet movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:46:16 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I got news for you, Professor. I'll take the ants any day.
- Well, we have four days left to find out.
- Isn't your Earth contact a little late?
- Yeah, it is. Over an hour late.
- It's not equipment failure. I get nothin' but dead air.
- Keep your line open and try transmitting.
- This is MR-1 and this is a test transmission.
- It's no use. Our signal keeps bouncing back at us. I can't get through.
- Yeah, and keeping Earth's reports from reaching us.
- I never heard of anything that'd stop the frequencies I'm using.
- Well, you're hearing about it now.
[...]