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These courses are organised by a group of MERG members for the benefit of other MERG members and railway modellers in general. | These courses are organised by a group of MERG members for the benefit of other MERG members and railway modellers in general. | ||
- | All bookings for courses that were postponed over the last couple | + | See the [[public: |
- | If you already have a booking | + | Watch this space for when the next courses are scheduled, but note that we will **only** run courses in 2023 for which we have received sufficient expressions of interest. |
- | The dates for 2022 are now confirmed with the venues. | ||
- | See also the [[public: | ||
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- | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Spring weekend - 4-6th March 2022 ===== | + | |
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+ | ===== POSSIBLE COURSES FOR 2023 ===== | ||
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+ | For 2023, we are publishing a list of our Northamptonshire courses and inviting expressions of interest. | ||
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+ | **We will not run any courses unless we have received sufficient expressions of interest** - so if you would like to come on a course, please send us an email of your interest. | ||
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+ | Here are the possible courses we have thought of so far, we could run up to 6 courses that generate sufficient interest: | ||
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+ | * General kit building workshop weekend | ||
+ | * Introduction to CBUS development | ||
+ | * Programming PICs | ||
+ | * Programming Arduinos | ||
+ | * Our usual Intro and More CBUS courses | ||
+ | * Our usual 3 JMRI courses, Intro, signalling/ | ||
+ | * Introduction to DCC | ||
+ | * Decoder Pro | ||
+ | * PCB Design | ||
+ | * 3D printing ++ | ||
+ | * Introduction to airbrushing | ||
+ | * Weathering | ||
+ | * Build a MERG DCC system in a weekend | ||
+ | * Templot | ||
+ | * Automatic uncoupling and coupling | ||
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+ | ++ Subject to finding a tutor | ||
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+ | The courses would take place at one of our venues in Northamptonshire. | ||
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+ | More details of some of the courses we could run are listed below. | ||
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+ | If you are interested in one or more of the above, and would most likely come if we ran that course, please drop an email to [[eastmids@merg.org.uk]] | ||
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+ | If you are interested in a course that is not on the above list, please also send us an email, we may well add it to the list. | ||
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+ | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Spring weekend - 3-5th March 2023 ===== | ||
The Missenden March weekend 2022 has now been scheduled, and bookings are open. | The Missenden March weekend 2022 has now been scheduled, and bookings are open. | ||
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===== Introduction to CBUS ===== | ===== Introduction to CBUS ===== | ||
- | ** 12-14th March 2022 ** | + | See the list, above, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. |
- | The course took place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | + | Watch this space for when the next course is scheduled. |
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | |
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- | See the list, at the bottom of this page, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. | + | |
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- | What this space for when the next course is scheduled. | + | |
For those just starting out in CBUS, this weekend course will take you from first principles through building CBUS kits to setting up CBUS operations. | For those just starting out in CBUS, this weekend course will take you from first principles through building CBUS kits to setting up CBUS operations. | ||
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===== JMRI Decoder Pro – Programming DCC locos and managing the roster ===== | ===== JMRI Decoder Pro – Programming DCC locos and managing the roster ===== | ||
- | ** 19-21st March 2022 (Rushden) - Postponed from January ** | + | See the list, above, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. |
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- | The course took place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | + | |
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | |
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- | See the list, at the bottom of this page, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. | + | |
What this space for when the next course is scheduled. | What this space for when the next course is scheduled. | ||
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===== More CBUS ===== | ===== More CBUS ===== | ||
- | ** 23rd-25th April 2022 ** | + | See the list, above, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. |
- | The course took place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | + | Watch this space for when the next course is scheduled. |
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | |
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- | See the list, at the bottom of this page, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. | + | |
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- | What this space for when the next course is scheduled. | + | |
This course is for those already familiar with the basics of CBUS, who would like to take it further. | This course is for those already familiar with the basics of CBUS, who would like to take it further. | ||
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===== JMRI Part 1 - STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO ===== | ===== JMRI Part 1 - STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO ===== | ||
- | ** 16-18th July 2022 - NEW DATE! ** | + | See the list, above, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. |
- | + | Watch this space for when the next course | |
- | The course | + | |
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | |
JMRI is free software that you can download to control your model railway. | JMRI is free software that you can download to control your model railway. | ||
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- | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Summer Retreat - 7-13th August 2022 ===== | ||
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- | The Missenden summer retreat is 7 days of uninterrupted modelling. Although there is not usually specific electronics content, there are generally some modellers working with electronics and experts on hand to assist with whatever you are working on. | ||
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- | See the website for more details: | ||
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- | [[http:// | ||
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===== JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing, Logic and Signalling ===== | ===== JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing, Logic and Signalling ===== | ||
- | ** 10-12 September 2022 ** | + | See the list, above, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. |
- | This is part 2 of our three JMRI courses. | + | Watch this space for when the next course |
- | The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | + | This is part 2 of our three JMRI courses. |
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | |
This is a weekend course for those already familiar and competent with the basics of JMRI. | This is a weekend course for those already familiar and competent with the basics of JMRI. | ||
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+ | ===== JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher ===== | ||
+ | See the list, above, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. | ||
+ | Watch this space for when the next course is scheduled. | ||
- | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Autumn weekend - 4-6th November2022 ===== | + | This is part 3 of our three JMRI courses. |
- | The Missenden Autumn | + | This is a weekend |
- | See the website for more details: | + | As a pre-requisite you should be a fluent JMRI user, having attended our Introduction and part 2 courses, or be comfortable with setting up panels in the Layout Editor, blocks and train detection, pathing and signalling. |
- | [[http:// | + | Click below for more details: |
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+ | [[public: | ||
- | ===== POSSIBLE COURSES FOR 2023 ===== | ||
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+ | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Summer Retreat - 30th July to 5th August 2023 ===== | ||
- | For 2023, we are publishing a list of our Northamptonshire courses and inviting expressions of interest. We will then run a selection of those courses for which there is most interest. | + | The Missenden summer retreat is 7 days of uninterrupted modelling. Although |
- | Here are the possible courses we have thought of so far, we could run up to 6 courses that generate sufficient interest: | + | See the website for more details: |
- | * General kit building workshop weekend | + | [[http:// |
- | * Introduction to CBUS development | + | ---- |
- | * Programming PICs | + | |
- | * Programming Arduinos | + | |
- | * Our usual Intro and More CBUS courses | + | |
- | * Our usual 3 JMRI courses, Intro, signalling/logic & automation | + | |
- | * Introduction to DCC | + | |
- | * Decoder Pro | + | |
- | * PCB Design | + | |
- | * 3D printing ++ | + | |
- | * Weathering | + | |
- | * Build a MERG DCC system in a weekend | + | |
- | * Templot | + | |
- | ++ Subject to finding a tutor | ||
- | The courses would take place at one of our venues in Northamptonshire. | ||
- | |||
- | If you are interested in one or more of the above, and would most likely come if we ran that course, please drop an email to [[eastmids@merg.org.uk]] | ||
- | |||
- | If you are interested in a course that is not on the above list, please also send us an email, we may well add it to the list. | ||
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=====Links===== | =====Links===== | ||
- | [[:public: | + | [[https:// |
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