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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