New member introduction

[Terry Mowles]

Hi All.

New member of the 009 Society and the Electronics SIG, I'm located in South Australia.

I'm just returning to model railways after having everything stacked in boxes on the top of the cupboard for way too long, so currently there is no layout yet - still clearing out an area for it and working out exactly what I want to do - besides being a NG layout of course and based somewhere in South West England/Cornwall (as a youngster, we were dragged all over the Southwest by our photographer father every spare moment available).

My background is electronics, having been involved in it from a young age through most of my working life, from repairs of consumer and industrial equipment through to design and manufacturing. There's been the occasional sidestep in to other things like the television industry, but even then electronics has been in the background.

Hopefully I will be able to contribute something useful to the SIG via the forum while I work out how to be awake for the Zoom meetings - they start around 6:30 in the morning my time, assuming I've got the time conversion correct.

[Graeme Dunbar]

Welcome Terry!

There are maybe other means of keeping in touch besides the usual Zoom calls and the forum. We sometimes use email for more than sending out reminders of meetings.

A possibility for Zoom might be to consider another time slot. The one we use at present sort of evolved as being the one that suited most people. There is no reason why we should not vary it or arrange an 'extraordinary' meeting at some other time.

https://timezonewizard.com/

[Hugh Norwood]

Welcome, Terry!

[Dave Cooper]

Welcome and Happy New Year Terry,

Hopefully, your electronics knowledge can run to some form of (digital ?) alarm clock ! Failing that, there's always the good old fashioned 'analogue' one (my preference)...

Cheers,
Dave

[Terry Mowles]

Alarm clock's not the problem, actually being coherent at that time of the morning is 😁

Happy New Year