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E Bamoore's DCC System with radio handthrottles based on RCA remote controls.

Prashant Bhandary has been developing a DCC system partly PC based and partly PIC based.

For Mike Bolton refer to the MERG group.

Bronson www.rr-cirkits.com/index.html

Dick Bronson has a multitude of model rail circuits including - a block detector using track power, a DCC uncoupler using memory wire to operate Kadees and wiring notes.

Mike Brandt, a pioneer of PC based DCC command stations using the printer port interface. He has a dedicated group of followers who are enhancing and improving his system.

Bullock http://members.rogers.com/bullock7/index.htm

Peter Bullock has a collection of MR electronic circuits. His layout has recently been converted from computer to DCC control so we may expect some DCC related circuits from him. Peter has also experimented with train mounted video cameras.

Darrin Calcutt regularly provides updates to his Automatic Train control program for NCE and System 1 users at this site.

Chubb Dr Bruce Chubb, 3902 Wilton Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49508 USA.

Chubb has released a new book on using his C/MRI system with DCC.

Conformance of DCC systems - See West, Ken

Côté DCC Mini Station  http://www.minidcc.com/

Robert Côté provides instructions and kits for a comprehensive DCC Command Station with only three major components - a keypad, LCD display and low cost PIC microcontroller. The project is regularly updated as improved PICs become available. Development software and chip programming information for PICs is available off the 'Net. His hardware and software could also form the basis of any non rail project a student may be interested in.
David Harris at http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/HarrisFamily/index.html shows his application of Robert Côté's system. He also includes some other interesting MRR electronics projects.

Crano www.mrwithdcc.com/

Don Crano has an isolated detector, some notes on lighting and decoder installs. He also contributes to Allan Gartners Wiring FAQ

Full details of Professor Mark Csele's DCC system are included on this site

Stefano Curtarolo has notes on DCC wiring of turnouts controlled by Tortoise switch machines.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/2501/ is his NDCC mail list.

'Captain' Kirk DeHaan has provided a MS Windows based Decoder Tool for reading CV values using an EasyDCC system (other systems supported in the future). Files may be saved and loaded. A demo version can be downloaded that has limited the number of saved files to one.

Digitrax Loconet

Digitrax have released a "personal product" document allowing wider development of their loconet protocol. Refer to the Digitrax and Tanner sites.

FREMO, a group of European modellers, are active developers of the PC command stations of MB & TMW. They have a LocoNet controller and homebrew decoders. Most information is available in english although some will still have to translated from german. Some of their members a listed seperately on this page.

Allan Gartner's Wiring for Command Control is an excellent reference for soldering, track, turnout wiring, loco decoder installation and a Question & Answer Forum.

Greene http://www.trainweb.org/bristol-s-gauge/DCC/DCC.html

Michael Greene, an ex chairman of the DCC Working Group, has a very good "Getting Started" document here. Includes "S" scale decoder installations.

Keith Guiterix's reputation for excellent support has made EasyDCC the most successful model rail electronic project for some time. He has a large group of dedicated fans who don't mind the odd adventure into electronics as long as they can call for help when required. EasyDCC is a constructional job with little technology understanding required.
The more adventurous are interfacing their PC’s to EasyDCC now and writing their own software in any language that can talk to a serial port.

DCC presentations & information. For an anolog throttle that can be fitted to a NCE Powerhouse Pro
Email Mark Gurries at gurriesm@macconnect.com and nicely ask for a copy of his Word document on the topic

Fred Horne has a walkaround throttle for MRC, a simple optical occupancy detector, American diesel production dates and decoder installation notes. His pages "All about DCC" provide a good introduction to the subject.

Kenneth Jesser is working on a DCC/RS232 interface for a PC. He has software to monitor the DCC signal and use the PC as an accessory decoder.

The JMRI project is building tools for model railroad computer control. We want it to be usable to as many people as possible, so we're building it in Java to run anywhere, and we're trying to make it independent of specific hardware systems.

John Kabat has written the following free DOS software:
PR1DOS - for the Digitrax programmer and its clones
RACETRAK - for "speed matching" locomotives
DCCMON - monitors a DCC signal via the serial port.
LNMON - a loconet monitor
LocoNet VxD driver - software driver

Matt Kastner has a set of dcom/com libs that you can import into c++ or vb and should have a .net version on line with xml exports by October 2002.

Lars Lundgren's TMW group have built a PC controlled Command Station based on Mike Brandt's project but considerably extended. Features include multiple throttles, TV remote throttle and many programming modes. The site also has related electronic projects.

The MERG group are actively designing DC & DCC model rail electronic projects with a high standard of documentation. They have a complete DCC system including decoders, programmers, command stations and an auto reversing booster. Well worth a visit!

Olsen http://home.no.net/paolsen/mj/minibox_en.html

P Olsen provides construction details for his full function Mini-BOX Loconet Command Station which can have up to 6 FREMO FRED throttles attached .