[Elecraft] TX5K - Managing with inexpensive hardware

[Rick McClelland, AA5S]

Something that should be heartening for the less well-heeled amongst us (it
certainly was to me), I was able to work TX5K on five bands with a Flex
1500, a very inexpensive second-hand RM Italy HLA-150v amplifier and a
single wire antenna.  The beams and K3/KPA500 combos are nice to have for
these types of events but aren't absolutely necessary.  Of course, one
might suggest that all this success would have been quite impossible had I
not employed an Elecraft KAT500 tuner to make things right with my signal
:-)

Still chasing Jim, K9YC, for those little green boxes, though.  Apparently,
he doesn't sleep much.

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Rick McClelland, AA5S
Fort Collins, CO