As expected, day 1 of the 2008 NMRA Convention was fairly slow, with a few clinics in the evening, and the Layout Design SIG's traditional Meet and Greet. This is my sixth National Convention, and I've been a past editor of the LD SIG's Journal publication, plus I now serve as the LD SIG's webmaster. For me, the Meet-and-Greet is more "greet" since I know many of the convention regulars in the room from the LD SIG staff, as well as common convention attenders from among the SIG.

I also video'ed Dave Duchamp's Intro to DecoderPro clinic, and I've included a still from the video here. Dave's presentation included a nice PowerPoint explaining how to set up DecoderPro, and a demo using some sound locos. By using sound locos, Dave showed programming on the main and how you can drag a slider to instantly change sound settings. Doing this with sound locos makes for a dramatic presentation, because it clearly demonstrates how easy and effective DecoderPro is for doing decoder programming (click on the photo to the left to view a larger image).

Monday will be mostly clinics, with more JMRI clinics to be video'd in the evening. You can check out Monday's morning schedule here, the afternoon schedule here, and the evening schedule here.