Graham Shirville G3VZV speaking at the 2016 AMSAT-UK Colloquium – Credit Mike Rupprecht DK3WN

The British Amateur Television Club (BATC) has announced that Graham Shirville, G3VZV, has been chosen to be the organisation’s next President. He first joined BATC in the early 1970’s, where he supported the development of the network of ATV repeaters in the UK for many years.

Graham working on FUNcube-1

More recently he has been closely involved with the development of the HamTV system on the ISS and with the schools contacts with Tim Peake during his Principia Mission.

Graham has also been a driving force behind AMSAT-UK’s FUNcube satellite projects and was briefly shown working on the FUNcube-1 satellite in the RSGB Youth video Amateur Radio – a 21st Century Hobby.

He provided the deployment mechanism for the Slow Scan Television (SSTV) satellite ARISSat-1/KEDR which was released from the International Space Station by cosmonauts Sergei Volkov RU3DIS and Alexander Samokutyaev.

British Amateur Television Club http://www.batc.org.uk/

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