Welcome to another Rocket Friends episode (Formerly called Workshop Talk)

In today's episode it's a Rocket Friends general rocketry discussion. We're joined by our good friend Andrew Kleinhenz and we cover a broad range of topics including:

-Becoming a Prefect of a Tripoli chapter for the first time

-The full story of "The Fainter of Goats"

- The resolution to the AP supply issue from Aerotech

- Speaking of...the right way to get into motor making

- First time @ Airfest thoughts

And more! Patrons, stay around after the closing theme for a cute short story at the end!

"The Fainter of Goats " rocket...which has an amazing story that we share in this episode!

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Welcome to the Season 11 premiere of The Rocketry Show!

In this episode, we talk to Tom Fetter on a deep dive on why do our rockets turn into the wind?Tom's done a lot of research, and was excited to join us to share!

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CG and Gheem gather for another test episode drop.

We're making sure everything is good to go for the new season. We got a question from a listener that CG thought would make a good topic for this test drop episode...

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CG and Gheeem get together to test our new podcast distribution setup before we start the new season by mid October.

We talk about what we've been up to the past couple of months as well!

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North Coast Rocketry

As we prepare for a new season of The Rocketry Show, we have some technical work to do...

This MIGHT cause a glitch in our feed that you might notice when we flip the switch, so to speak.  Hopefully not!

CG explains in this short drop...

We remember one of the key founding members of Estes Rockets.  Gleda Estes passed away earlier this year while we were out of production.  We chose to dedicate an episode to her memory by listening to a re-enacting of the early years of Estes Rockets that she and husband Vern performed at NSL 2018.

Welcome to our first "Rocket Friends episode of the new show format. This type of show was formerly called "Workshop Talk".

In this episode we are joined with Bill and Rachel Daigle and they catch us up on their hobby adventures.  Also in this episode:

• CG's flight computer project ticks along, and he talks about how that is shaping up.
• Gheem is grilled by all of us on what it's like to have his High School rocket team accepted into the NASA Student Launch competition this year.

Enjoy!

What's it like to send your hobby rocket to near space?  Our guest, Kip Daugirdas explains.  

Kip is a Level 3 rocketeer, and he'll share his experiences and share some inside tips on the topic.

He can be found on Twitter: @kipdaugirdas

If you wish to follow Kip's Youtube channel, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/@kdaugi

Steve Taylor, President of ESRA the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) joins us to talk all things Spaceport America Cup.

The IREC event has been going on for over 20 years now, and there is a lot to learn about it!

A bit delayed, but here we are!

In this episode, we do a quick review of NARCON 2024, and we give a look behind the curtain to tell you what has been going on...

On this episode, our guest is Vance Martin, an amateur radio operator who goes under the callsign N3VEM.

Martin became involved in rocketry as a kid in the typical way; seeing model rockets at the local hobby shop, and discovering the hobby with a friend. 

As he moved into middle and high school, he discovered mid and high power rocketry through  online rocketry communities. 

While in college he built a PML 1/4 Scale Patriot rocket to use for his Level One, but was unable to find a nearby club to certify, so his L1 rocket sat collecting dust over the years.   

After college, Vance discovered ham radio, and earned his amateur radio callsign N3VEM, and built  a portable station in his vehicle so that he could play radio while being out and on the road for work. 

As seems to be a pre-requisite for Ham Radio, Vance also became a software and hardware 'tinkerer', so for him, building radio-related projects turned out to be a lot of fun, and is still what he calls his 'primary hobby.'

Vance became a Born-Again-Rocketeer about a year ago, when his two older kids found the Patriot rocket stashed in the corner of the family storage room.  They asked 'What is this!?!'  "...and just like that" says Vance " we started building up a fleet of little Estes kits." 

Vance decided that it would be fun to combine the two hobbies, and start tinkering with radio and electronic payloads for their rockets. "I knew that 'off the shelf' stuff was available, but being a tinkerer, I wanted to build my own." he recalls.  

He continues. "I wanted to target mid-power sized rockets with my projects, since I still live in the same town, and still don't have easy access to a club with a high-power launch site."

Vance enjoys his hobbies, and is having fun, saying "I'm still very much a rocketry noob, but I'm having a blast dabbling around with building the rockets, and hacking around at hardware and software for the rockets' payloads."

Vance's website is :

 https://n3vem.com/blog/RadioRocketV2/