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| ==== Meetings ==== | ==== Meetings ==== | ||
| + | **Sunday 15th January 2017**\\ | ||
| + | Venue Shawlands Scout Hall, Glasgow, G41 4AE | ||
| - | The following Spring 2016 **workshops** will be running. | + | **January' |
| + | The morning session will have two presentations, | ||
| + | **A cloud over your layout?**\\ | ||
| + | You may have heard of "The Cloud", | ||
| + | being monitored and controlled remotely via the internet. Chic Thomson will show | ||
| + | you simple and cheap hardware and software means of controlling / monitoring | ||
| + | aspects of your layout from a browser, both locally, and from anywhere.\\ | ||
| + | **Layout options**\\ | ||
| + | Starting a new layout? Do you know your dog bone from your folded figure-of eight? | ||
| + | When to use turntables, sector plates and traversers? Davy Dick looks at | ||
| + | the options, benefits and drawbacks of different track layouts – from tiny 24” x 24” | ||
| + | layouts to massive club layouts.\\ | ||
| + | These sessions last all morning, so you have to choose which one you want to attend.\\ | ||
| + | Since we have to pay extra to hire the hall for the morning, there will be an additional | ||
| + | donation of £1 per attender, on top of the normal afternoon £3 donation. | ||
| + | You might also want to bring along a packed lunch.\\ | ||
| + | **Afternoon sessions**\\ | ||
| + | The main Area Group meeting will run from 1pm to approx 5pm, depending upon the | ||
| + | amount of questions and discussion. As an experiment, we will have a slightly longer tea | ||
| + | break around 3pm.\\ | ||
| + | The afternoon session will have two presentations-\\ | ||
| + | **A Guide To Track Laying:**\\ | ||
| + | Keith Shovelin will cover the basic aspects of track laying | ||
| + | including gauge/scale , types of track, methods of fixing | ||
| + | track, techniques for improving loco adhesion, ballasting, | ||
| + | weathering and more...\\ | ||
| + | **The Faller road system**\\ | ||
| + | John Bowman and Donald McDonald will cover the | ||
| + | model car system designed to work alongside model | ||
| + | railways. The self-powered vehicles (cars, trucks, | ||
| + | buses) run automatically and can stop at traffic lights, | ||
| + | railroad crossings and stations.\\ | ||
| + | To meet fire regulations, | ||
| + | will also have a tick box indicating that the entry donation has been recorded.\\ | ||
| + | Please let me know as soon as possible if you are | ||
| + | able to attend the January meeting. | ||
| + | Also, please let me know which morning session you | ||
| + | want to attend.\\ | ||
| - | * Thu 24 Mar - Using an oscilloscope | ||
| - | * Sun 3 Apr - Basic electronics for model railways | ||
| - | * Sun 10 Apr – Soldering and kit building | ||
| - | * Sun 17 Apr - An introduction to PIC projects | ||
| - | * Sun 24 Apr - Electronics 2 | ||
| - | * Thu 28 Apr - PICs 2 | ||
| - | The **venue for each session will depend on final numbers.** | ||
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| - | __Next Area Group meeting__ | ||
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| - | Sunday 5th June 2016 | ||
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| - | * Morning sessions - TBA | ||
| - | * Second session - Report on Hamburg, Building control panels | ||
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| - | ==== Exhibitions with a West of Scotland MERG stand in 2016 ==== | + | ==== Exhibitions with a West of Scotland MERG stand in 2017 ==== |
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| - | Sat/Sun 30/31 Jan - Kilmarnock MRC\\ \\ | + | |
| - | Fri/Sun 26/28 Jan - Model Rail Scotland SECC \\ \\ | + | |
| - | Sun 8 May - Classic Car Show, Kilmarnock \\ \\ | + | |
| - | Sat/Sun 14/15 May - Kyle MRC \\ \\ | + | |
| - | Sat/Sun 11/12 Jun - Summerlee Industrial Museum \\ \\ | + | |
| - | Sat/Sun 25/26 Jun - Perth MRC \\ \\ | + | |
| - | Sat/Sun 27/28 Aug - Hawick MRC \\ \\ | + | |
| - | Sat 3 Sep - Cumbernauld MRC \\ \\ | + | |
| - | Sat/Sun 17/18 Sep - Ayr MRC \\ \\ | + | |
| - | Sat/Sun 22/23 Oct - Greenock MRC \\ \\ | + | |
| - | Sat/Sun 26/27 Nov - Falkirk MRC | + | |
| + | Kilmarnock MRC 4/5 Feb Volunteer Rooms, Parterre, Irvine KA12 0BA\\ | ||
| + | Model Rail Scotland 25 to 27 Feb SECC, Exhibition Way, Glasgow G3 8YW\\ | ||
| + | Kyle MRC 20/21 May Auchenharvie Academy, Low Street, Stevenston, KA20 3JW\\ | ||
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