I worked many stations through RS12/13 and only used wire antennas (dipoles, end-fed wires, etc.), so no directional antennas were used. I seem to recall that those sats had higher than the usual 1/2 watt output as well.
73, Bob, WB4SON
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 7:29 PM Ray Soifer via AMSAT-BB [email protected] 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.
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