Satellite stalwart Graham Shirville, G3VZV, has been selected as the next president of the British Amateur Television Club (BATC). Shirville has belonged to the organization since the early 1970s, and he supported development of a network of Amateur Radio Television (ATV) repeaters in the UK for many years. More recently he was closely involved with development of the HamTV system on the International Space Station (ISS), and with the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school contacts with UK Astronaut Tim Peake, KG5BVI/GB1SS, during his Principia Mission. He’s also been a driving force behind AMSAT-UK’s FUNcube satellite program, and he provided the deployment mechanism for the Slow Scan Television (SSTV) satellite ARISSat-1/KEDR, released from the ISS in 2011. — Thanks to AMSAT News Service via AMSAT-UK