NARCON first report

I returned home from NARCON last night at about 11PM following a 4+ hour flight from Chicago to Portland. It was a really enjoyable gathering of rocket folks who were eager to share the interesting projects they were working on and techniques they had developed over the years. The historical talks were really interesting as well. I really enjoyed the talk on the early years of HPR in the Wisconsin area and the history behings the Bong launch site.

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of NARCON was the attendance. 200 people signed up and attended this year's event and everyone seemed to have a great time. It looks like WOOSH is interested in hosting the event next year, so I'm already planning on attending NARCON next yeat.

John Lyngdal

Since that is a possibility, I'll post this addendum to the NARCON directions:

Wisconsin seems to have at least two names for every road: one name in big letters on a big sign, and the others in small letters on a small street sign. The directions on the NARCON web site use the small, hard-to-see, hard-to-find street name.

Here is the mapping:

Washington is Highway 20 South Green Bay Road is Highway 31 7th Street South is Highway A East (HWY A west at HWY 31 is a block north) Wood is Highway G

Glen

loved the LOC and Public Missiles kits that were being sold off for $20 a piece.

Didn't see em? musta been because MARS Club cleaned em out :)

Respectable.

I didn't get to this one, as it was 4pm Friday before I arrived. [Didn't have the "luxury" of being unemployed like last year, so I didn't arive until the Ky Keynote talk.] When did he say they started flying HPR at Bong? Did the Bong/Rocket history go back to our model rocket contests in the 70s and 80s. I know I set a D ELD record back there in June 1984, 760 seconds.

Even Jay Apt, who invented the model rocket convention back in 1966 was impressed with NARCON this year. Of course he admitted he'd not been to one for about 2 decades...

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Yes, that was a pain, and they left the map and restaurant list out of the NARCON book. Things were far enough away it was just about impossible to get out to a decent dinner wiht friends either night in the 90 minute window.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

ROFL

Wasn't that the truth !

Who was doing that , Ken from Al's ?

I believe so. I saw it, saw the savings, and blurted out "how much for all?"

of course he wouldn't go any lower ($50+kits for $20!) and I could *almost* buy them all, but had other items in mind.....

so I bought 2, zak bought 3, lisa bought 2, and bought 2.

box was empty then :)

More like a name and number or name and letter.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Thanks, Glen. I'll add this info to the directions on the NARCON 2006 website.