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Graham Shirville G3VZV to be next BATC President

Posted: 19 Aug 2016 09:01 AM PDT
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/08/19/grah...atc-president/

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 organisations 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-UKs 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/
Watch An update on the FUNcube Project by Graham Shirville G3VZV & Jim Heck
G3WGM


Watch ESA ESEO FUNcube-4 Payload Update & Demonstration by Graham Shirville
G3VZV & Chris Bridges 2E0OBC