Just picked up my black Desert Eagle .50 from Caso's in Jersey City. She was home all of 5 minutes before I took her apart for the new hogue grips. Can't figure out how to load up pictures. I'm like a proud daddy smiling from ear to ear. Always wanted one.
Have you done any research into the cost and licensing requirements to run a repeater? We own some mountainous acreage in a very rural part of Virginia RIdge and Valley country that serves as vacation place and potential SHTF retreat. We get mediocre cell phone coverage (US Cellular only) and nothing else. I have thought of putting an antenna tower up the hill a ways (we own nearly to the top of the ridge. I wouldn't do it just for Ham or GMRS radio, but if I could get expanded cell coverage, and/or satellite internet (Dish or Starlink) as well, from one tower, I might go for it.
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