Yes, I've recently had my first 'blank' radio message. I'd not had one before, but in stock SH3 there are very few scripted radio messages anyway!
From the date and time, I found that it should have been the message about Trondheim being open for operations. It's in the "SH3\data\Campaigns\Campaign\messages_en.txt" file, to be transmitted from April 19th 1940 till April 21st 1940. In the usual fashion, I got the message repeatedly every time I reloaded my patrol until the end date:
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19400419 1200 19400421 1200 1 100 60 ^...^A new submarine base is available in the port of Trondheim, of the coast of Norway.||Bdu
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I don't know if it affects all stock installations since one of the patches introduced the feature for a 'from' and 'to' field (format: @FROM@ ^TO^). Since only the 'to' field is present (i.e. ^...^), I think the game doesn't read the radio message properly. That, or my installation is slightly broken, but it's stock SH3 1.4 with a minimum amount of cosmetic mods.
The only two previous radio messages in the stock campaign are these:
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@Naval High Command@^German forces at sea^Commence hostilities against Britain forthwith||Raeder
@Naval High Command@^...^The port of Danzig is available for operations once again.
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As you see, the 'from' & 'to' fields are entered between the @@ and ^^ symbols for these messages. These came through without a problem.
There are a number of mods out there to add more radio messages, and although I haven't installed one, they do all have the 'from' and 'to' fields filled in for
every radio message, so it's probably necessary to avoid this issue. In that case, it's a glitch that the developers introduced by adding the from/to fields and forgetting to update their own messages_en.txt!