ARRL Executive Vice President David Sumner, K1ZZ (left), greets CITEL Executive Secretary Clovis Baptista at ARRL Headquarters.
ARRL Executive Vice President David Sumner, K1ZZ (left), greets CITEL Executive Secretary Clovis Baptista at ARRL Headquarters. |
NEWINGTON, CT, May 23, 2001--CITEL Executive Secretary Clovis Baptista visited ARRL Headquarters on May 15. The visit offered an opportunity to acquaint Baptista with Amateur Radio.
Escorting Baptista during his visit were Executive Vice President David Sumner, K1ZZ, and ARRL Technical Relations Manager Paul Rinaldo, W4RI.
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A nonamateur, Baptista appeared favorably impressed by the size and convenience of the new Yaesu FT-817 low-power transceiver--especially with respect to its possibilities for emergency communication. | ARRL Technical Relations Manager Paul Rinaldo, W4RI (left), shows Baptista how the ARRL Outgoing QSL Service works. |
Baptista was fresh from a CITEL broadcasters' session in El Salvador, May 7-11, that also was attended by ARRL Technical Specialist Jon Siverling, WB3ERA, of the League's Washington, DC, office. During that gathering, Siverling cited the importance of 7 MHz in recent regional Amateur Radio disaster communication.
 As ARRL Chief Operating Officer Mark Wilson, K1RO, looks on, Baptista checks out the 2001 edition of The ARRL Handbook during a stopover in the ARRL Graphics Department. |
CITEL, the Spanish acronym for the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (Comisión Interamericana de Telecomunicaciones), is part of the Organization of American States. Its purpose is to further the development of telecommunications in the Americas.
 Baptista (right) studies an International Amateur Radio Permit while ARRL-VEC Manager Bart Jahnke, W9JJ (second from right), and Assistant to the VEC Manager, Wayne Irwin, W1KI, look on. |
During his ARRL Headquarters visit, Baptista expressed an interest in enhancing CITEL's efforts in the area of electronic publishing and news dissemination. He consulted with ARRL Electronic Publications Manager, Jon Bloom, KE3Z, for suggestions to improve the CITEL Web site. VEC Manager Bart Jahnke, W9JJ, also explained the International Amateur Radio Permit (IARP) system. Similar to the CEPT permit system used in many European countries, the IARP allows Amateur Radio licensees to operate in certain countries in the Americas that are CITEL signatories.
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