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======STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO WEEKEND COURSE====== | ======STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO WEEKEND COURSE====== | ||
- | ** Date and venue TBA ** | + | ** 24th to 26th July (Rushden) |
- | The next date and venue for this course will be announced as soon as we have the information available. | + | **(Postponed from 2020 and June 2021)** |
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+ | As the lifting of lockdown restrictions proceeds, it became clear that we cannot run this course on the original 2021 dates we had originally hoped. | ||
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+ | So we have taken the difficult decision to reschedule it yet again to the date in July as shown above. This is after the date when the government hopes to have lifted all restrictions, | ||
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+ | The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | ||
+ | Station, Northamptonshire. | ||
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+ | Any bookings | ||
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+ | JMRI is free software that you can download to control your model railway. | ||
This course assumes no previous knowledge of JMRI. | This course assumes no previous knowledge of JMRI. | ||
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+ | The course will start with arrivals from 4pm on Friday evening and then takes place over the weekend (Saturday and Sunday). | ||
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+ | We also have an optional follow-on practical workshop day on Monday 26th July. This will be a practical workshop day for you to apply the knowledge learnt over the weekend. You can work on whatever you wish, with assistance from the tutors, such as working on your own CBUS implementation or revisiting certain course subjects. | ||
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Topics covered will include: | Topics covered will include: | ||
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* Block detection and train tracking | * Block detection and train tracking | ||
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* These two topics will be covered in detail in the follow-on JMRI courses. | * These two topics will be covered in detail in the follow-on JMRI courses. | ||
- | Please note that this course does NOT cover programming locomotive CVs using Decoder Pro. For that, see the [[public: | + | Please note that this course does NOT cover programming locomotive CVs using Decoder Pro. For that, see the Introduction to DCC course. |
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- | When a date and venue are confirmed for the next course, you will be able to download details and booking form here: | + | |
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+ | Bookings are open. | ||
+ | You can download more details and the booking form below: | ||
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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. | ||
+ | ====Other Courses==== | ||
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public/introtojmricourse.txt · Last modified: 2022/10/13 02:34 by PeteB