Jeff Moorman
Seasons’ Greetings to you and yours. Our next meeting is Thursday, January 5. Time and place are at the end of this piece.
Show and Tell was a bit slim at December’s meeting. Bob S had a couple a nicely done structures. Both were from the same kit, but didn’t look at all alike. Bob has graciously agreed to talk about his weathering techniques at our next meeting. Come prepared to learn about looking old and used. Of course, a couple of us do that sort of naturally.
Di Voss was back to wrap up his piece on Digital Command Control. This section was mostly about using Decoder Pro to set, and reset, and experiment with configuration variables (CVs). Wow, this sure is a lot easier than setting the codes for each individual CV.
For illustration Di showed how to customize a locomotive’s bell, whistle, and speed response. He also covered how much easier Decider Pro makes dealing with the multiple use variables, like that pesky CV 29.
I ran out of time to include any pictures this month, but I will try to get them in the next installment.
We meet at the Ronald United Methodist Church, 17839 Aurora Avenue North, Shoreline, WA. That is on the west side of Aurora (State Route 99) between 175th and 185th Streets and more specifically, between the Cadillac dealer on the south and Deseret Industries to the north. You can no longer make cross-traffic turns on Aurora, so you need to be going southbound (so you can make a right-hand turn into the church driveway immediately after passing the Deseret location).
Meetings are the first Thursday of each month, except July and August. However, in June we usually do a tour. For regular meetings enter the lower level of the church from the parking lot at the rear. Doors open around 7:00 PM, announcements at 7:15, and the program starts about 7:30. Hope to see you there or at least sometime on down the line.
The next meeting is January 5 and the one after that is February 2.
