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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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 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.
-**PLEASE NOTE** that all course dates are provisional and dependant on the Covid situation, and will not take place until it is safe to run them again. You will see that some dates for spring 2021 have already been put back by a month or two.
+All bookings for courses that were postponed over the last couple of years will be honoured for future courses.
-All bookings for courses that have been postponed with be honoured for the re-scheduled course, or any other course if you prefer to come on a different one at that time.
+If you already have a booking for any course, you will be contacted directly by email about the arrangements and dates.
-The dates below are all confirmed for 2021, with the venue already booked, but may be postponed if it is still not considered safe.
+The dates for 2022 are now confirmed with the venues.
+See also the [[public:courses#possible_courses_for_2023|list of possible courses for 2023]].
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-===== Introduction to CBUS =====
-** 29th to 31st May 2021 (Rushden) **
+===== Missenden Railway Modellers Spring weekend - 4-6th March 2022 =====
-** (Postponed from 27th to 29th March 2021) **
+The Missenden March weekend 2022 has now been scheduled, and bookings are open.
-The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+See the website for more details:
+[[http://www.missendenrailwaymodellers.org.uk/|Missenden Railway Modellers weekend]]
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+===== Introduction to CBUS =====
+** 12-14th March 2022 **
+The course took place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
 Station, Northamptonshire.
+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.
 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 =====
+** 19-21st March 2022 (Rushden) - Postponed from January **
+The course took place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+Station, Northamptonshire.
+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.
+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 =====
-** 5th to 7th June 2021 (Rushden) **
+** 23rd-25th April 2022 **
-** (Postponed from 24th-26th April 2021) **
+The course took place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+Station, Northamptonshire.
+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.
 This course is for those already familiar with the basics of CBUS, who would like to take it further.
 Particular emphasis on configuring CBUS in FLiM and using the universal CANMIO firmware.
-The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
-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.
-Bookings are now open.
 Click below for more details.
 [[public:More CBUS Course|More CBUS weekend course details]]
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-===== STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO =====
+===== JMRI Part 1 - STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO =====
+** 16-18th July 2022 - NEW DATE! **
-** 12th-14th June 2021 (Rushden) **
 The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
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 The course assumes no previous knowledge of JMRI and takes you through from first principles.
-Bookings are now open
 Click below for more details.
 [[public:introtojmricourse|Starting out with JMRI Panel Pro course details]]
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+===== Missenden Railway Modellers Summer Retreat - 7-13th August 2022 =====
+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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 ===== JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing, Logic and Signalling =====
-** 4th-6th September 2021 (Rushden) **
+** 10-12 September 2022 **
 This is part 2 of our three JMRI courses.
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 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.
-Bookings are now open.
 Click below for more details:
 [[public:jmripart2course|JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing and Signalling course details]]
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-===== JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher =====
-** 6th-8th November 2021 (Rushden) **
-This is part 3 of our three JMRI courses.
+===== Missenden Railway Modellers Autumn weekend - 4-6th November2022 =====
-This is a weekend course for JMRI power users who want to take it on to partial or full automation.
+The Missenden Autumn weekend 2022 has now been scheduled, bookings open on 10th May.
-The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+See the website for more details:
-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]]
+[[http://www.missendenrailwaymodellers.org.uk/|Missenden Railway Modellers weekend]]
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-=====3D Printing courses=====
-[[public:3dprintingcourse|3D Printing]]
+===== POSSIBLE COURSES FOR 2023 =====
-None currently scheduled.
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+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.
+Here are the possible courses we have thought of so far, we could run up to 6 courses that generate sufficient interest:
-===== Missenden Railway Modellers weekends =====
+  * 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 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.
+++ Subject to finding a tutor
-At present, bookings for the Autumn weekend in October will not open until the end of July, when organisers will make a decision about whether it is possible to go ahead.
+The courses would take place at one of our venues in Northamptonshire.
-Bookings and more details are via the Missenden Railway Modellers website.
+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]]
-[[http://www.missendenrailwaymodellers.org.uk/|Missenden Railway Modellers weekend]]
+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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