Okay, G700W here from Ham Radio Village. It's time to close out the village for this year.
We're going to go open to our Discord voice channel.
We'll get some shout out comments there and we will see you next year. Let's go to Discord.
Everybody in Discord, I guess let's go to Justin first. Justin, what are our stats for
testing this year? All right, well, yeah, no, this year has been a great testing. It's been
great to work with GLARGVC to be able to roll out online testing from Friday, including today,
as well as starting in 30 minutes. So, with day one and day two combined of testing, we had a
total of 33 people either get their call signs or upgrade with a total of 38 elements passed. So,
each element is one upgrade or one license. And we even had one person go from nothing at all to
getting their extra. So, that's fantastic news. And then starting, like I said, in 30 minutes,
we're going to have 72 people taking their Ham Radio license exams, which is just an
amazing amount. And it's great to see so many people signing up for this test session.
Excellent, excellent. What about our contacts, FTA and voice? You got stats on those?
Oh yeah, you know we do. So, we were operating from Wednesday to Saturday at 11.59 p.m.
We were operating underneath the call sign Kilo 3 Kilo K3K. And we made a total of 122,
and then some more as well, confirmed contacts, like you said, on some digital modes like FTA and
on voice as well. Some of the highlights were contacts from New Zealand, Argentina, Greece,
even another special event call sign this weekend, Whiskey H Tango or W8T, which is the
world's largest teapot in West Virginia. So, it was really great to hear all of those who have
made contacts with us throughout the weekend and hope to hear other people this week or next year.
Very cool, very cool. I just want to give a shout out to AIOJ, Eric, organizing everything,
getting everything sorted out for this wonderful village this year. Shout out to all the
presenters, anybody who contributed whatsoever to this year. It's been amazing, especially for
being offline. Oh, I see Eric there. You got any closing remarks, Eric? Yeah, I mean, I think
pretty much everything's been covered. But yeah, again, a solid thank you to all of our presenters,
all of our attendees, of course, YouBlue for, you know, being co-pilot and all this. And,
you know, super, super happy to see both the turnout, quantity and quality of all the content.
And, you know, we're hoping to be back next year, whether it's virtual or in person remains to be
seen, of course. But either way, I want to have at least twice as much content next year. So,
got some high expectations, but I'm pretty confident in our group that we can get it done.
And thanks, everybody. Thank you, everybody. Anybody have any closing shout outs before
we conclude for the year? I would say thank you for the Goons to making this event such a success,
especially having a guest that kind of learn a lot because it's their first time going online.
But yeah, thanks to the entire Goon Squad. Very cool. Very cool. I was just amazed by the talks
this year. We had everything from satellite operation to the ultimate van life. I want a
van now. I want a news van and definitely radio telegrams. That is just a cool new world for me.
So definitely shout out to everyone, though. And I guess seven threes. We're wrapping for the year.
AIG7OOW is clear. Unless anyone else got some comments as we close out.
AI0J clear.
There we go. Thanks again, everybody.