[44net] Results from the Portal Ticket Handling Party

** *Hey Everyone,* * Before we trained folks in our community on ticket handling, we had about 996 tickets open and awaiting response (as of October 4)*. At our Ticket Party yesterday (10/16), in about 2.5 hours, we closed 430 tickets for call sign verification, resulting in 148 call sign verification tickets open and awaiting a response, bringing the overall number of tickets open and awaiting a response to 316. This event was a major success in reducing our ticket backlog! We want to extend a major thank you to all of our volunteers who showed up at our Ticket Party yesterday, along with folks who attended our training session last week: John Burwell KI5QKX John Davis WB4QDX Kevin Duffelmeyer KD2PDL Chip Eckardt W9OQI Dave Gingrich K9DC Rich Gopstein KD2CQ Austin Hadley KE8YGW Trevor Halsey KD8SEP George Kirn N9PNO Dave Koberstein N9DK Toshiyuki “Tom” Mabuchi JF3LGC Ronnie Montgomery W0RDM Peter Pototsky NH6FU Boudewijn “Bob” Tenty VE3TOK Jann Traschewski DG8NGN Răzvan Zeceş YO6RZV If you participated in eliminating this backlog, and your name is not on this list, please let me know, so we can acknowledge your contributions. We couldn’t have done this without all of you! 73, Rebecca KO4KVG *To summarize our previously reported ticket statistics, * 996 total (i.e., in addition to call sign verification) tickets were open and awaiting response as of October 4. * 717 total tickets were open and awaiting response as of October 11. * 316 total tickets were open and awaiting response at the conclusion of the Ticket Party on October 16. This number was achieved due to: o Volunteers closing 430 call sign verification tickets! * -- Rebecca Key - KO4KVG Communicaions Manager Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) ardc.net