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==== Email ==== | ==== Email ==== | ||
- | To send us an email, [[http:// | + | To contact |
- | For MERG members, you might also like to look at our [[http:// | + | |
+ | For MERG members, you might also like to look at our [[https:// | ||
- | ==== Secretary ==== | ||
- | Davy Dick M1853\\ | + | ==== Who are the leaders of the group? ==== |
- | Neil McNulty M2127 | + | <WRAP info round> |
+ | M1853 Davy Dick //Group Leader// \\ M4589 Bob Young //Deputy Group Leader// | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | ==== Meetings ==== | ||
+ | <WRAP info around> | ||
+ | We see ourselves as a mutual-assistance group, where members look to each other for advice, help and support. | ||
+ | Our members range from having little electronic knowledge to being fairly advanced. | ||
+ | Interested members co-operate on their specific interests – e.g. everything from soldering skills and kit building to 3D printing and PIC and Arduino programming. The group aims to cater for all levels of skill. | ||
+ | There is no specific commitments required from those who join. | ||
+ | Members can put in and take out as much as they wish. None of us know everything and we can all learn from each other in a more informal manner than through the MERG forums and email groups. | ||
+ | Of course, you don't have to participate in the Area Group, but you might find that we have a lot to offer - and learn - from each other. | ||
+ | </ | ||
- | ==== Meetings ==== | + | <WRAP info round> |
+ | We were very active prior to Covid-19, with all-members meetings in Glasgow on Sundays and fortnightly drop-in sessions on alternate Friday afternoons. | ||
+ | Here is a typical members' | ||
+ | {{: | ||
- | The following Spring 2016 **workshops** will be running. | + | Previous discussions included power supplies and cutouts, layout wiring, fault finding methods, automation, motors, servos and steppers, making control panels, PCB design software, etc. |
+ | </ | ||
+ | === And the Next Meeting? === | ||
+ | <WRAP hide> | ||
+ | *************************************************************************** | ||
+ | Replace NN with the number of your area group - get from the AG admin page. | ||
+ | Update the contact form title. | ||
+ | *************************************************************************** | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | <WRAP box round> | ||
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+ | </ | ||
+ | ==== Other Activities ==== | ||
+ | <WRAP info around> | ||
+ | Here is one of our demonstration layouts that show how to fit MERG kits to augment model railways. | ||
+ | {{: | ||
+ | | ||
+ | Here is our annual Open Day where we had demonstrations of building baseboards, track laying, point controllers, | ||
+ | {{: | ||
- | * Thu 24 Mar - Using an oscilloscope | + | Here is a training workshop we ran on programming Arduinos. |
- | * Sun 3 Apr - Basic electronics for model railways | + | {{: |
- | * Sun 10 Apr July – Soldering and kit building | + | </ |
- | * Sun 17 Apr - An introduction to PIC projects | + | <WRAP info round> |
- | * Sun 24 Apr - Electronics 2 | + | At the moment, we keep in touch with each other through our national and our local websites. |
- | * Thu 28 Apr - PICs 2 | + | |
+ | We also have weekly Zoom sessions on Sunday afternoons. | ||
+ | Subjects covered included: | ||
- | The **venue | + | * Making latching reed switches |
+ | * Reusing parts salvaged from old printers and scanners | ||
- | __Next Area Group meeting__ | + | * Resin 3D printing |
+ | * Building animations | ||
- | Sunday 5th June 201 | + | * Measuring voltage and current in DCC systems |
+ | </ | ||
- | * Morning sessions - TBA | ||
- | * Second session - Report on Hamburg, Building control panels | ||
- | Email me if you are interested. Use the [[http:// | ||
- | MERG Members may email or PM [[http:// | ||
- | Davy Dick \\ | ||
- | WoSAG Leader | ||
- | ==== Exhibitions with a West of Scotland MERG stand in 2016 ==== | ||
- | 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 | ||
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