Aid and International Development Forum 2012 Washington D.C

Building partnerships for relief and development

Allen Pitts

Allen Pitts

Media and Public Relations Manager

ARRL – the national association for Amateur Radio

With a background in emergency operations and work with the ARRL, the world’s largest association of Amateur Radio operators, Pitts has knowledge of the services Amateur Radio operators provide world-wide.  Not only does Amateur Radio encourage voluntary learning of electronics and communication skills,  the radio amateurs’ special role in the early hours of major events and their ability to use a multitude of frequencies and a palette of transmission modes - including analog, digital, web hybrids, satellite, video and  others – continue to make it the world’s most fail-safe communications.