I was reading recently about the status of RS-15 which was declared semi-operational. Nevertheless I thought I would give it a try. I would sporadically hear the beacon and then try to access the transponder and remained persistant in trying for several days, then about 3 days ago I turned on my rig to try and forgot the uplink frequency and wrongly entered 144.958 to 144.998 [rather than the listed uplink of 144.858 to 144.898] and the transponder responded with the downlink still in the listed range of 29.354-29.394. I have continued to be able to get the transponder to respond by useing the "wrong" uplink of 144.958-144.998. I hope others will try the same as I sure would like to make some contacts rather than simply hearing my own signal. Thanks. Gary DeMunbrun [ WA4RKS].