>>508478371
I did invested some decent amount of money. I end up tearing apart my hand held radios to see what was inside of them.

I also had a RTL-SDR, and you eventually get bored.

So what was my problem? no one to talk to, in the first place, other than harass some dumb cartel members. (it was fun, they are incredible dumb)

reception sucks, unless you install a huge antenna tower outside your house, but you will raise suspicios everywhere.

and there isn't any intelligent signal there, other than listening to FM radio, and the local airport.

But maybe I gave up because I never joined any HAM radio club. So perhaps that was my mistake.

If I have to start over, I would first start in joining up a ham radio club, before buying random non-sense.