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 ====== MERG related courses ======
-If you know about any other relevant courses not listed here, please add them.
+If you know about any other relevant courses not listed here, in particular those in other areas, please add them.
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 The dates for 2022 are now confirmed with the venues.
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+See also the [[public:courses#possible_courses_for_2023|list of possible courses for 2023]].
-===== JMRI Decoder Pro – Programming DCC locos and managing the roster =====
-** 22nd-24th January 2022 (Rushden) **
-This is a weekend course on making use of JMRI Decoder Pro software to program your DCC locos, and how to make use of the features of the loco roster.
-The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
-Station, Northamptonshire.
-A familiarity with basic DCC concepts is assumed.
-Click below for more details:
-[[public:decoderprocourse|Decoder Pro course details]]
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 ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Spring weekend - 4-6th March 2022 =====
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 ** 12-14th March 2022 **
-The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+The course took place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
 Station, Northamptonshire.
+See the list, at the bottom of this page, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know.
+What this space for when the next course is scheduled.
 For those just starting out in CBUS, this weekend course will take you from first principles through building CBUS kits to setting up CBUS operations.
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+===== JMRI Decoder Pro – Programming DCC locos and managing the roster =====
+** 19-21st March 2022 (Rushden) - Postponed from January **
+The course took place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+Station, Northamptonshire.
+See the list, at the bottom of this page, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know.
+What this space for when the next course is scheduled.
+This is a weekend course on making use of JMRI Decoder Pro software to program your DCC locos, and how to make use of the features of the loco roster.
+A familiarity with basic DCC concepts is assumed.
+Click below for more details:
+[[public:decoderprocourse|Decoder Pro course details]]
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 ===== More CBUS =====
 ** 23rd-25th April 2022 **
+The course took place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+Station, Northamptonshire.
+See the list, at the bottom of this page, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know.
+What this space for when the next course is scheduled.
 This course is for those already familiar with the basics of CBUS, who would like to take it further.
 Particular emphasis on configuring CBUS in FLiM and using the universal CANMIO firmware.
-The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
-Station, Northamptonshire.
 This course assumes that you have attended the Introduction to CBUS course, or that you already have a good understanding of the basics of CBUS, building modules and getting them working.
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-===== STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO =====
+===== JMRI Part 1 - STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO =====
-** 21-23 May 2022 **
+** 16-18th July 2022 - NEW DATE! **
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 ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Summer Retreat - 7-13th August 2022 =====
-The Missenden summer retreat is 7 days of uninterrupted modelling. Alhtough there is not usually specific electronics content, there are generally some modellers working with electronics and experts on hand to assist with whatever you are working on.
+The Missenden summer retreat is 7 days of uninterrupted modelling. Although there is not usually specific electronics content, there are generally some modellers working with electronics and experts on hand to assist with whatever you are working on.
 See the website for more details:
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-===== JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher =====
-** 22-24th October 2022 (Rushden) **
-This is part 3 of our three JMRI courses.
+===== Missenden Railway Modellers Autumn weekend - 4-6th November2022 =====
-This is a weekend course for JMRI power users who want to take it on to partial or full automation.
+The Missenden Autumn weekend 2022 has now been scheduled, bookings open on 10th May.
-The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+See the website for more details:
-Station, Northamptonshire.
-As a pre-requisite you should be a fluent JMRI user, having attended our Introduction and part 2 courses, or be comfortable with setting up panels in the Layout Editor, blocks and train detection, pathing and signalling.
+[[http://www.missendenrailwaymodellers.org.uk/|Missenden Railway Modellers weekend]]
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-Click below for more details:
-[[public:jmripart3course|JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher course details]]
+===== POSSIBLE COURSES FOR 2023 =====
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-=====3D Printing courses=====
-[[public:3dprintingcourse|3D Printing]]
+For 2023, we are publishing a list of our Northamptonshire courses and inviting expressions of interest.  We will then run a selection of those courses for which there is most interest.
-None currently scheduled.
+Here are the possible courses we have thought of so far, we could run up to 6 courses that generate sufficient interest:
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-===== Weathering =====
+  * General kit building workshop weekend
+  * Introduction to CBUS development
+  * Programming PICs
+  * Programming Arduinos
+  * Our usual Intro and More CBUS courses
+  * Our usual 3 JMRI courses, Intro, signalling/logic & automation
+  * Introduction to DCC
+  * Decoder Pro
+  * PCB Design
+  * 3D printing ++
+  * Weathering
+  * Build a MERG DCC system in a weekend
+  * Templot
-We have no weathering courses currently scheduled for Rushden Transport Museum, but see the Missenden weekends above, where weathering classes are available.
+++ Subject to finding a tutor
+The courses would take place at one of our venues in Northamptonshire.
+If you are interested in one or more of the above, and would most likely come if we ran that course, please drop an email to [[eastmids@merg.org.uk]]
+If you are interested in a course that is not on the above list, please also send us an email, we may well add it to the list.
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