Back in the day, I operated a lot of Mode K on RS. That's 15M upand 10M down. It was CW at 100 W. I had a TriBander and aimedit in the general direction of the Satellite and making contacts wasquite easy. It was often funny in those days when 15M was open andyou could hear the other stations on both 15M direct and on the 10Mdownlink. HIHI 73, Bob K8BL On Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 7:55:00 PM EDT, AI9IN via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
Did RS-12/13 require a directional antenna on uplink and/or downlink? Anybody want to speculate on what will be needed for these new HF sats?
Steve AI9IN
On 2019-04-10 7:27 pm, Ray Soifer via AMSAT-BB wrote:
IARU has coordinated two Chinese satellites, expected to be launched later this year, which will carry 15-to-10-meter linear transponders. If successful, these will be the first use of 15 meters for a satellite uplink since RS-12/13 went silent in 2002. Operation of the earlier RS birds enabled much DX to be worked on otherwise dead bands. More info to follow. As a reminder, DX worked via satellite counts for Satellite DXCC, but not for other DXCC awards.
73 Ray W2RS _______________________________________________
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