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Key Personnel
Chief Engineer H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D.
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Microcomm's founder and Chief Engineer is generally credited with the design of the world's first commercial home satellite TV receiver. H. Paul Shuch (rhymes with luck) brings to the company more than a half century of experience in electronic communications. A distinguished engineering professor, Dr. Shuch earned his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, after serving in the US Air Force as a telecommunications systems controller during the Vietnam conflict. He served as Technical Director and Chairman of the Board of Project OSCAR Inc., designers and builders of the first non-Government communications satellites.
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While an engineer with such major aerospace corporations as Itek and Lockheed, and later as a NASA and DoD subcontractor, Dr. Shuch was responsible for the design of electronic countermeasures, satellite remote sensing, synthetic aperture radar, and submarine launched ballistic missile telemetry systems. He holds patents in the areas of airborne radar and phased array antennas, taught physics, electronics, and aeronautics at various colleges and universities for more than three decades, and spent eighteen years as Executive Director (now Emeritus) of The SETI League, Inc., an international educational and scientific nonprofit corporation.
Dr. Shuch is the author of more than 600 publications, of which roughly 100 deal with antennas, microwave communications, microstrip circuitry, and related technologies. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, the Society of Wild Weasels, and the AACS Alumni Association; a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, the European Radio Astronomy Club, and the Radio Club of America; and serves on numerous international committees and boards. Dr. Shuch is a licensed commercial pilot, instrument flight instructor, and volunteer FAA Safety Team member who, upon his retirement from academia, founded AvSport of Lock Haven, a general aviation flight school. He is a US citizen, who has held Top Secret and Crypto security clearances.
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