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 ====== MERG related courses ======
-If you know about any other relevant courses not listed here, please add them.
+If you know about any other relevant courses not listed here, in particular those in other areas, please add them.
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 Note that you do not have to be a MERG member to come on these courses.
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-===== JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing, Logic and Signalling =====
+These courses are organised by a group of MERG members for the benefit of other MERG members and railway modellers in general.  Your booking is directly with the course organisers, not with MERG itself.
-** 9th to 12th November 2018 (Rushden) **
+All bookings for courses that were postponed over the last couple of years will be honoured for future courses.
-Please note change of date to avoid a clash with the MERG AGM
+If you already have a booking for any course, you will be contacted directly by email about the arrangements and dates.
-This is part 2 of our three JMRI courses.
+The dates for 2022 are now confirmed with the venues.
-The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
-Station, Northamptonshire.
-This is a weekend course for those already familiar and competent with the basics of JMRI.
-As a pre-requisite you should have attended our introduction to JMRI Panel Pro course, or be fluent with drawing a layout diagram in the Layout Editor, setting up turnouts & sensors, turnout feedback, linking from a Layout Editor Panel to the physical layout & the basics of train detection.
-[[public:jmripart2course|JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing and Signalling course details]]
+See also the [[public:courses#possible_courses_for_2023|list of possible courses for 2023]].
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 ===== JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher =====
-** 16-18th March 2019 (Rushden) **
+** 22-24th October 2022 (Rushden) **
-** Date now confirmed **
+**A few places still available!**
 This is part 3 of our three JMRI courses.
 This is a weekend course for JMRI power users who want to take it on to partial or full automation.
+The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+Station, Northamptonshire.
 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.
+Click below for more details:
 [[public:jmripart3course|JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher course details]]
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-===== 3D printing =====
+===== Missenden Railway Modellers Autumn weekend - 4-6th November2022 =====
-** 27-29th April 2019 (Rushden) **
+The Missenden Autumn weekend 2022 has now been scheduled, bookings are open - last few places remaining as of 12th October.
-** Date now confirmed **
+See the website for more details:
-This is a weekend course to enable those with little or no experience of CAD to draw and 3D print their first models. The course is ‘hands on’ and you will work at your own pace through a structured introduction to Sketchup Make, the free CAD program we will be using. 3D printers will be available so that you can experience the whole process from design to print.
+[[http://www.missendenrailwaymodellers.org.uk/|Missenden Railway Modellers weekend]]
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-Your tutor will be MERG 3D guru, Bob Gledhill.
-The course assumes no prior knowledge about 3D printing.
+===== POSSIBLE COURSES FOR 2023 =====
-[[public:3DPrintingCourse|3D printing course details]]
+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.
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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.
-===== Introduction to DCC =====
-** 4-6th October 2019 (Missenden Abbey) **
+Here are the possible courses we have thought of so far, we could run up to 6 courses that generate sufficient interest:
-This course is for those who are new to DCC (Digital Command Control) of model railways, and assumes no prior knowledge.
+  * 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/logic & automation
+  * Introduction to DCC
+  * Decoder Pro
+  * PCB Design
+  * 3D printing ++
+  * Weathering
+  * Build a MERG DCC system in a weekend
+  * Templot
-The course will take place as part of the Missenden Railway Modellers autumn weekend in 2019.
+++ Subject to finding a tutor
-For those just considering or starting out in DCC, this weekend course will take you from first principles through fitting decoders to DCC operations, including the use of Decoder Pro for setting up your decoders.
+The courses would take place at one of our venues in Northamptonshire.
-This course assumes no previous knowledge of DCC.
+More details of some of the courses we could run are listed below.
-[[public:DCC Intro Course|Introduction to DCC weekend course details]]
+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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-===== Missenden Railway Modellers weekends =====
-The Missenden Railway Modellers Weekends are workshops with expert tutors from MERG on hand. The Autumn weekend every October includes electronics classes that come with expert MERG tutors, covering all aspects of electronics for model railways including CBUS.
+===== Missenden Railway Modellers Spring weekend - 3-5th March 2023 =====
-In October 2018, as well as the usual beginners course, layout wiring and general workshop, we will be running the "Introduction to DCC" course once again as described above.
+The Missenden March weekend 2022 has now been scheduled, and bookings are open.
+See the website for more details:
 [[http://www.missendenrailwaymodellers.org.uk/|Missenden Railway Modellers weekend]]
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 ===== Introduction to CBUS =====
-** 13th to 16th September 2019 (Rushden)**
+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.
-** Please note revised date form original one announced provisionally.  **
+Watch this space for when the next course is scheduled.
-** This revised date is now confirmed **
-By popular demand, we have arranged another weekend course for those who want to learn about CBUS.
-The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
-Station, Northamptonshire.
 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.
 This course assumes no previous knowledge of CBUS.
+Click below for more details:
 [[public:CBUS Intro Course|Introduction to CBUS weekend course details]]
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+===== JMRI Decoder Pro – Programming DCC locos and managing the roster =====
+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.
+What this space for when the next course is scheduled.
+This is a weekend course on making use of JMRI Decoder Pro software to program your DCC locos, and how to make use of the features of the loco roster.
+A familiarity with basic DCC concepts is assumed.
+Click below for more details:
+[[public:decoderprocourse|Decoder Pro course details]]
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 ===== More CBUS =====
-** Date and venue TBA **
+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 next date and venue for this course will be announced as soon as we have the information available.
+Watch this space for when the next course is scheduled.
-This course if 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.
-The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+Particular emphasis on configuring CBUS in FLiM and using the universal CANMIO firmware.
-Station, Northamptonshire.
 This course assumes that you have attended the Introduction to CBUS course, or that you already have a good understanding of the basics of CBUS, building modules and getting them working.
+Click below for more details.
 [[public:More CBUS Course|More CBUS weekend course details]]
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+===== JMRI Part 1 - STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO =====
+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.
+JMRI is free software that you can download to control your model railway.
+The course assumes no previous knowledge of JMRI and takes you through from first principles.
+Click below for more details.
+[[public:introtojmricourse|Starting out with JMRI Panel Pro course details]]
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-===== STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO =====
+===== JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing, Logic and Signalling =====
-** Date and venue TBA **
+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.
-We recently ran this course at the Missenden Abbey Railway Modellers autumn weekend 2018, and at Rushden Transport museum.
+Watch this space for when the next course is scheduled.
-The next date and venue for this course will be announced as soon as we have the information available.
+This is part 2 of our three JMRI courses.
-JMRI is free software that you can download to control your model railway.
+This is a weekend course for those already familiar and competent with the basics of JMRI.
-The course assumes no previous knowledge of JMRI and takes you through from first principles. For details of these courses, follow the link below.
+As a pre-requisite you should have attended our introduction to JMRI Panel Pro course, or be fluent with drawing a layout diagram in the Layout Editor, setting up turnouts & sensors, turnout feedback, linking from a Layout Editor Panel to the physical layout & the basics of train detection.
+Click below for more details:
+[[public:jmripart2course|JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing and Signalling course details]]
-[[public:introtojmricourse|Starting out with JMRI Panel Pro weekend course details]]
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+===== Missenden Railway Modellers Summer Retreat - 30th July to 5th August 2023 =====
+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.
+See the website for more details:
+[[http://www.missendenrailwaymodellers.org.uk/|Missenden Railway Modellers]]
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