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+====== December 2026 East Midlands face to face area group meeting ======
+**Saturday 12th Deceember 2026 from 10:00**
+Here is the agenda for our next meeting on Saturday 12th December 2026 from 10:00.
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+The meeting will take place at Kegworth Village Hall.
+Once again, we have arranged our meeting at Kegworth to coincide with a meeting of the Black Diamonds model railway group who hire the main hall once a month . They model American outline, so our members will have an opportunity go and have a look at what they are working on. Likewise their members will be able to drop in and see what we are doing.
+We will ask for a donation of £5 per head to cover the venue hire and teas/coffees. Note that one payment covers both, you don't need to pay separately for the teas and coffees. We need about 25 members at the meeting to cover our costs.
+The venue has level step free access and reasonable parking.
+You can either bring a packed lunch or find somewhere locally, although I don't have any local knowledge of this area. We have the use of a kitchen attached to the room we are hiring, which has a microwave.
+Provided we can connect to the Internet at the venue, we will have a Zoom connection for the morning meeting, for those who cannot come in person. I will add a Zoom link to the meeting info, so that it appears in your upcoming meetings on the MERG website.
+The venue is about 3 miles from East Midlands Parkway station, if you would like to come by rail, let us know and we can arrange a pickup from the station. If you are coming by train, please arrive at East Midlands Parkway before 10am, so whoever picks you up does not have to miss any of the meeting.
+The venue is convenient for the M1, and also very close to East Midlands Airport, if you wish to fly in!
+More details of parking and how to find the venue will be included in your confirmation email when you book your place. Please remember to book a place and not just turn up on spec, in case there are any changes we need to let you know about, so we know how many people to cater for, and so we can confirm we have enough bookings to go ahead with the meeting.
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+**AGENDA**
+* 10:00 - Arrival, Informal chat and get to know the other members
+* 10:30 - Welcome, group news and Introductions
+* 10:45 - CBUS, MERG DCC and JMRI news - Pete Brownlow
+* 11:00 - Roxeter Low Level control panel, plus what I have been doing with a Pi Pico and using it with C++ libraries - Nick Locke
+* 11:30 - Tea/coffee break
+* 12:00 - Update on my layout and using JMRI scripting to run trains - Colin Head
+* 13:00 - LUNCH BREAK
+* 14:00 - 16:00 - Demonstrations and practical problems help clinic.
+Nick will be bringing at least one of his control panels and Colin plans to bring one section of his layout, so there will be plenty of real stuff to look at.
+During the afternoon Nick and Colin's hardware will be available for demo, and you can dive into more techie detail with Nick and Colin about their C++ and JMRI scripting respectively if you wish. You can also visit the Black Diamonds in the main hall to see what modelling they are doing.
+During the afternoon we will, of course, also have our usual problem clinic providing General help on problems with kits or other electronic projects, building, testing, problem solving, techniques such as soldering etc.
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+If you would like to come, please send an email to eastmids@merg.org.uk or post a message in the East Midlands Area group section of the MERG forum. I will add you to the list and, a week or so before the meeting, you will get a reply with full details, directions to the venue and parking information. Even if you are not sure yet whether you can get along, please let us know anyway so we can plan for likely numbers.
+(Those who have already let me know that you are coming, I will be sending out confirmation emails in the week before the meeting).
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 ====== October 2026 East Midlands face to face area group meeting ======