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--- public:introtojmricourse [2019/06/29 09:28] – Update with course details and Strode booking link PeteB
+++ public:introtojmricourse [2021/10/20 18:45] – update for 2022 date PeteB
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 ======STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO WEEKEND COURSE======
-** 11-12th July 2019 **
+** 21st to 23rd May 2022 (Rushden) **
-** Strode College, Somerset **
+The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+Station, Northamptonshire.
-The course will take place at Strode College in Somerset, as part of their Summer Workshops.
+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.
+JMRI is free software that you can download to control your model railway.
 This course assumes no previous knowledge of JMRI.
+The course will start with arrivals from 4pm on Friday evening and then takes place over the weekend (Saturday and Sunday).
+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.
 Topics covered will include:
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 * 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:dcc_intro_course|Introduction to DCC course]]
+Please note that this course does NOT cover programming locomotive CVs using Decoder Pro.  For that, see the Introduction to DCC course.
-The course takes place over 2 days midweek in July.
-Full Course details, and what to bring, are here:
-{{ :public:courses:jmri_course_jul19_strode_details.pdf |JMRI Panel Pro intro course details}}
-Booking is direct with Strode College, follow the link below:
-[[https://my.strode-college.ac.uk/online-services/website/strodesummerworkshops/advancedsearch.aspx|Strode College Booking site]] and enter the following course code:
-SS439B for the JMRI Course
-These will ensure that you pay the MERG discounted rate. Please make sure you bring your MERG Membership card with you to the course.
-See also the "More CBUS" course, which will run on the previous 2 days consecutively before this one.
+More details and the booking form will shortly be available to download below:
+{{ :public:courses:jmri_course_may22_rushden_details.pdf |Starting out with JMRI Panel Pro course 2022 details}}
+{{ :public:courses:jmri_course_enrollment_form_may22_rushden.doc |Enrolment form for JMRI intro course 2022}}
+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.
+====Other Courses====
+[[public:courses|Link to Courses index]]