[amsat-bb] Recording of TOMSK English Greeting 2016-05-10 8:20 UTC Over NA on 145.80 Mhz

[John Brier]

Absolutely great to see the setup from the inside. I just wish I knew Russian.

Thanks for sharing this.

73, John KG4AKV

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Greg D <ko6th.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, thanks for sharing this!  I was just thinking how clean the wiring
> is, with everything laying flat against the walls.
>
> Then he opened the panel...!
>
> Looks like my entry window and the underside of my operating desk.  I
> guess Ham radio is the same, no matter what planet you're on (or over).
>
> Greg  KO6TH
>
>
> Daniel Cussen wrote:
>> This was sent to me from the TOMSK people:
>>
>> Translated title of video:
>> Microsatellite TOMSK TPU 120 to the ISS
>> Showing inside ISS
>> https://youtu.be/WnYIjgGU4vQ
>> Very good short video showing Russian segment including the Kenwood
>> radio and antenna cabling.
>>
>> News Article, translated below
>> http://news.tpu.ru/news/2016/05/05/25225/
>>
>> The Russian crew of the International Space Station (ISS), Yuri
>> Malenchenko, Alex and Oleg Skripochka Ovchinin recorded video
>> greetings for polytechnics. Astronauts wished POLYTECHNIC to send it
>> into orbit graduate of the next anniversary of the university.
>>
>> Congratulation has been demonstrated at the solemn Academic Council,
>> which at this moment is held at the International Cultural Center of
>> TPU.
>> "Dear friends, members of the Russian crew of the International Space
>> Station congratulate the teachers, students and graduates with the
>> 120th anniversary of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. We appreciate
>> the great contribution to the development of Tomsk polytechnic modern
>> astronautics " - Said the commander of the transport-manned spacecraft
>> "Soyuz TMA-M", ISS Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko .
>>
>> During congratulations astronauts demonstrated satellite
>> "Tomsk-TPU-120" . The satellite is the first Russian spacecraft
>> created by using of 3D-technology and unique materials. The device is
>> designed in the scientific and educational center "Modern production
>> technologies" TPU together with the Rocket and Space Corporation
>> "Energia" and the Institute of Physics of Materials Science SB RAS
>> strength. He was sent to the ISS on March 31 aboard a cargo spacecraft
>> "Progress MS-02" from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Already on April 2
>> "Progress MS-02" has successfully docked with the station.
>> "A good example of fruitful work is created by Tomsk citizens
>> satellite" Tomsk-TPU-120 ", which, as you see, is on board the ISS,
>> and will soon be sent to an independent space flight. Some of its
>> parts are made using of 3D-technology, - said cosmonaut Alexei
>> Ovchinin . -
>> Particularly pleased to note that the satellite executed the forces of
>> young scientists and students. "
>> Already on May 10 began broadcasting satellite to Earth
>> congratulations on the anniversary of the university, written in 11
>> languages. Radio amateurs can catch the satellite signal at the
>> frequencies 145.8 MHz and 437.025 MHz.
>>
>> "We sincerely wish all the staff, students and graduates of Tomsk
>> Polytechnic University to new heights, bright ideas, creative
>> victories. And so the next anniversary of the university went into
>> orbit its graduate "
>> - I wished the pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation Oleg Skripochka .
>> Recall, May 10, Tomsk Polytechnic began to celebrate 120 years since
>> its foundation. As part of the anniversary celebration on the
>> territory of the TPU campus opened a new, modern Science park after a
>> complete renovation opened hostel №12 street Vershinin, 37, hosted a
>> rally in front of the main building. More details about the
>> celebration of the anniversary of the site →
>>
>> Reference:
>>
>> The university was founded in 1896, opened in 1900 and originally
>> named the Tomsk Technological Institute. Institution became the first
>> engineering university in the Asian part of Russia. The Discovery
>> Institute has actively contributed to the Minister of Finance of the
>> Russian Empire, Sergei Witte. In his diary, dated March 6, 1896, he
>> wrote: "Today I have removed money from the battleship and gave them
>> to the establishment of the Tomsk Institute of Technology." The
>> creation of the institute and especially its chemical separation took
>> Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev actively involved.
>> Today in the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute study of 16 thousand students
>> from 42 countries. The University 225 destinations training for
>> undergraduate specialties, graduate, postgraduate and doctoral
>> studies. The campus of the university 21 academic building and 15
>> comfortable dormitories.
>>
>>
>> On 10/05/2016, John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In case it wasn't clear, the recording is of the VHF signal. I switched
>>> over to the UHF side once at max elevation and barely heard it so I
>>> switched back.
>>>
>>> Here is a video I recorded of my setup after I received it at 8:20 UTC:
>>>
>>> https://youtu.be/ihaKPqq5WN0
>>>
>>> John KG4AKV
>>> On May 10, 2016 5:27 AM, "John Brier" <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Barely heard it on the UHF side at max elevation 51 degrees.
>>>>
>>>> This was the first pass over a land mass after it was turned on. Also
>>>> recorded russian, german, something I couldn't ID and a tiny bit of
>>>> chinese
>>>> at the end of the pass.
>>>>
>>>> https://soundcloud.com/spacecomms/tomsk-english-greeting-2016-05
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