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:

• Volunteers closing 430 call sign verification tickets!