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Subject: [CQ-Contest] Palmyra
From: rbowen@iglobal.net (Ralph Bowen)
Date: Wed Apr 15 03:15:55 1998
Glad someone else remembered!!   Seems like I remember this thing on the
block some years ago for about $20 meg.   Shows what kind of
businessmen  the US government consists of  -  they raise the price when
it won't sell!!

73,  Gator  N5RZ


Eric Scace wrote:
> 
> Palmyra has been on offer for many, many years at far lower asking prices.
> 
> $47M for 600 acres (at high tide) is about $78k per acre.  No electricity,
> no potable water, fly/ship in all supplies from several thousand miles away.
> 
> Sounds pretty ridiculous to me.
> 
> For $47M there are a lot of other cool pieces of real estate to purchase
> for contesting/DXing.
> 
> Wonder what kind of recreational chemicals those dudes are using?
>


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