More often I'd hear folks chatting simplex on 15 meters, but on the 10m downlink. Big surprise to them when I let them know what they were doing...
I didn't do much with RS-12/13. I only had a multi-band dipole across the peak of the roof, so the pattern was whatever the pattern was. No turning the house. The good news was that neither band required Doppler adjustment. Bad news was that you were working half duplex, so there was no way to know how well the bird was hearing you. Of course, on HF, with RF bouncing all over the place between the ionosphere and the satellite itself, there was no telling where you'd end up. Best of both worlds.
Should be fun,
Greg KO6TH
R.T.Liddy via AMSAT-BB wrote:
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