[CQ-Contest] Palmyra

[bigdon]

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.

But it's your *own* DXCC country.  You don't have to live there.  When
you've got money, things like that are just little toys you play with
occasionally now and then.  Fire up the LearJet, drop in and run a few
stations.....

Big Don


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