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======STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO WEEKEND COURSE====== | ======STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO WEEKEND COURSE====== | ||
- | ** PROVISIONAL DETAILS | + | ** 21st to 23rd May 2022 (Rushden) |
- | ** 11-12th July 2019 ** | + | The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden |
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- | ** Strode College, Somerset ** | + | Any bookings for our 2020 course that we were not able to run at Rushden, that you have not been able yet to attend, will be honoured for this course in 2022. If you already have such a booking, you will be contacted by email with latest updates. |
- | The course will take place at Strode College in Somerset, as part of their Summer Workshops. | + | 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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* 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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- | The course takes place over 2 days midweek in July. | + | |
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- | Once the venue and dates are confirmed, you will be able to download furtehr details below. | + | |
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- | Booking will be direct with Strode College, details of how to do so will be posted here when available. | + | |
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+ | More details and the booking form will shortly be available to download 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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