http://www.uhebeisen.net/index.htmldiary of ueli hebeisenenuheb@bluewin.chCopyright 20102012-02-18T13:45:21+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Do., 30 Jul 2009 19:02:00 +0200uheb@bluewin.chHobby2012-02-18T13:45:21+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/66d5e347aaa273b012b3cd72472a7858-261.html#unique-entry-id-261http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/66d5e347aaa273b012b3cd72472a7858-261.html#unique-entry-id-261special meaning to me.

First the Short S.C.1 was at the beginning of the Harrier story. The famous VTOL aircraft developed by Hawker Siddeley.
Second this kit is a resin kit from Pro Resin Models. Resin as a material is difficult to handle, it easily breaks and you have first to cut and sand every piece of the kit before you can start assembling it. I’ve built other kits with resin parts but this one is an all resin kit so it took a lot of time and patience to finish it (photos of the model).
And finally it remembers me of my childhood. I saw this aircraft in a magazine and from that moment I always insist to get one if my mother went to Winterthur for shopping. This was in the 60ies and of course there was no such kit around at that time. But as you see - time is changing.
;-)]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2012-02-14T15:05:48+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/886a49422f28e5779b8012ad8d4321b7-260.html#unique-entry-id-260http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/886a49422f28e5779b8012ad8d4321b7-260.html#unique-entry-id-260
We toke place at the COMOF Cup. On Saturday there was middle distance competition and on Sunday one over the classic distance (real orienteering).
;-)
Since Nadine and Marianne were starting in de Elite class that means they will have running times of around 90 minutes.

After this o-event we travelled back to Valencia where we spent two more days shopping and sightseeing.
Photos of this weekend are on my Flickr account and the results are posted by the organizer.]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2012-01-19T21:59:56+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/09892903d908144a3a2a20b8de72dd75-259.html#unique-entry-id-259http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/09892903d908144a3a2a20b8de72dd75-259.html#unique-entry-id-259For a long time I was having this kit of a Lockheed Orion from Special Hobby in my stash. But one thing was missing: the decals. I knew of this aircraft as an early Swissair type. During xmas time I found that it was time to draw the decals as I had the sketches already. So I started my Adobe Illustrator program. Then I sent the file to Joseph Osborne from Fireball Modelworks to get them printed.

I already ordered many decals from Fireball Modelworks and I know that his decals are always first class. This one, a custom made decal-set, was no exception.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2011-12-26T21:50:40+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/594206149d38bdef54d68c7198eb5fc4-258.html#unique-entry-id-258http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/594206149d38bdef54d68c7198eb5fc4-258.html#unique-entry-id-258
I like this tradition and since the weather was fine on 26. December I took my camera an shot this picture.]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2011-11-29T21:27:25+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3b0c0b9c6c4715ab9647d17c2e8c9e95-257.html#unique-entry-id-257http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3b0c0b9c6c4715ab9647d17c2e8c9e95-257.html#unique-entry-id-257visit of the IWM at Duxford I was looking for a model kit of a Fairey Swordfish that I saw in the hall „Air and Space“. Revell is selling such a kit and it even allows for building it as a night fighter providing the radar dome as an alternative to the torpedo.

Of course I added a few extra parts to get „my“ model of this famous biplane, like the wires and the instrument of the radar operator. And all this in scale 1:72. Maybe I will build another one in 1:48 sometimes.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2011-10-08T17:01:53+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/31f07919a218fd433a95633b3067e748-256.html#unique-entry-id-256http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/31f07919a218fd433a95633b3067e748-256.html#unique-entry-id-256De Havilland museum a friendly mister explained to us why this museum is located exactly here at this place. The first prototype of the De Havilland Mosquito was built in one of this hangars!

The De Havilland Heritage Air Center has three Mosquitos in their hangar among other aircrafts (photo album). Very funny to see a Swiss Vampire here, I remember to see them flying over Nussbaumen when I was a child.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2011-10-08T10:47:29+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/e84bb886e3630cfd123a3946d5070550-255.html#unique-entry-id-255http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/e84bb886e3630cfd123a3946d5070550-255.html#unique-entry-id-255Royal Air Force museum at Hendon (London). Here too, an impressive list of famous and well know airplanes can be seen on display along with a lot of useful information regarding aviation. Hendon shines in this part with its „Timeline“.

Something I did realize here in the Battle of Britain expositions is the fact that Great Britain was under attack during the summer of 1940 and that the people suffered by the German bombing.
Interesting to see German airplanes that one can not see in a German museum. There are photo albums of the „Milestones“, „Bombers“ and „Battle of Britain“ halls.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2011-10-07T16:22:51+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4e8e59234d30163cfe1c50dcdc88a787-254.html#unique-entry-id-254http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4e8e59234d30163cfe1c50dcdc88a787-254.html#unique-entry-id-254Flying to Stansted seems a good starting point for the IWM at Duxford in the north, not far from Cambridge, and the various museums located in London.

Duxford is huge! All the aircrafts are displayed in over six hangars (seeing here the Air and Space hangar). While our visit there was a Catalina and an F-86 Sabre doing test flights for the upcoming air show a week later (see the videos). There’s no surprise that we could see airplanes that one never would see in Switzerland.

When the museum did close its doors at 6 pm we weren’t through all the halls. Maybe we had to come again to see all the things. There are photo albums of the Air and Space, the Flying Aircrafts plus Battle of Britain and the American Air Museum.

]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2011-08-07T14:32:04+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/d11171f4bfce88e3dbea8c7f0c607145-253.html#unique-entry-id-253http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/d11171f4bfce88e3dbea8c7f0c607145-253.html#unique-entry-id-253Swiss Orienteering Week in Flims wehreas Alain an me were visiting a few points of interest in the surroundings like the Viamala canyon or the convent (school) in Disentis (see Photos).

On day 3 the competition starts at the foot of the Vorab glacier about 2560 meters above sea level. On this particular map experimental symbols are used for the snow fields (lightblue) and for the desert like ground in front of the glacier (light brown). You can see a bigger picture of the map on the Flickr set to get a better impression.

]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2011-07-30T13:36:02+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/ce92e0b8a60d1781b72cfe324a88d791-252.html#unique-entry-id-252http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/ce92e0b8a60d1781b72cfe324a88d791-252.html#unique-entry-id-252Partschins) in the Vinschgau a valley in the western part of Südtirol (Italy). Fact is, it is not far from Switzerland and we knew from our friends that in Rabland the Hotel Rössl provides an excellent service.

Sure every day we enjoy very much the wellness part of the hotel but after some sports ;-) .
The whole region offers many bike tours well marked so we had no problem finding our way. Well, as long as we followed such a route which wasn’t always the case.
The altitude graphs of most of the tours look similar like the one shown below (green): straight up the hill and then down again. I have recorded most of our tours with my Garmin Edge and uploaded the tracks to the Internet. You may find more of them on the activity board. Sure there are a few photos on a Flickr set too.
 
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In a few weeks Alain will finishing his secondary school and then beginning his apprenticeship. He will get a commercial education at the municipal administration of Rickenbach.]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2011-06-13T11:06:14+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/43c17f38f4cfcf26d6ddb34ed27e46ca-250.html#unique-entry-id-250http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/43c17f38f4cfcf26d6ddb34ed27e46ca-250.html#unique-entry-id-250thurgorienta held their training weekends there. This year was no exception. Although the weather wasn’t that good we could do most of our trainings without standing in the rain.

On monday we started for a team orienteering near the Mösernsee. As always I had my GPS on (Garmin FR 210) and could watch my recorded route afterwards.]]>uheb@bluewin.chComputing2011-06-03T10:54:35+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/e0398403f6c19b19b9a98f8ecdd5592d-249.html#unique-entry-id-249http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/e0398403f6c19b19b9a98f8ecdd5592d-249.html#unique-entry-id-249My brother switched to a new Internet access plan with his provider and also get a new WiFi router so he didn’t need his AEBS anymore.

Time to retire my old AEBS and replace it with the newer one. This base station has a few nice new features and is faster than the older UFO style base station. ]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2011-05-28T10:14:30+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/654ddc6c5bfd21700dc7aab4fb1feea5-248.html#unique-entry-id-248http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/654ddc6c5bfd21700dc7aab4fb1feea5-248.html#unique-entry-id-248
And as an exception to the Swiss rules in bike-o it was partly allowed to leave the tracks and roads and drive cross country. Bike-O is fun and a sprint even more, everything is twice as fast as in foot orienteering at least. I still can improve my skills as the results are showing.]]>uheb@bluewin.chComputing2010-01-14T22:04:13+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b194957237cd940c2285c86cb98fbd9f-247.html#unique-entry-id-247http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b194957237cd940c2285c86cb98fbd9f-247.html#unique-entry-id-247Condes) or the very useful GPS-track converter (QuickRoute) from Mats Troeng. To get that on my Mac I am using VirtualBox from Oracle. Usually the Windows guest systems offering a keyboard layout from a Windows computer and therefore have a different key mapping compared to the Mac keyboard.

But you can build your own keyboard. Arne Schirmacher a German fellow had done that for the German Mac keyboard layout and made a description on his website. Following these steps I finished a Swiss German keyboard layout for the MacBook and MacBook pro models that you can install in Windows. You may find that package on Arne Schirmaches website.]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2011-04-04T15:09:01+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/7edb155aa42d1c8989a46cf1c1d15efe-246.html#unique-entry-id-246http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/7edb155aa42d1c8989a46cf1c1d15efe-246.html#unique-entry-id-246arrow5 to be exactly ..
Arrow5 is the name of the compass model I am using for my orienteering runs.
This years NOM (swiss championship in night orienteering) turned out really bad. Not only because I broke my compass. This happened at the 10th control. Trouble began earlier somewhere in middle of the competition when I missed two controls and did a wrong route choice. Within four controls I lost almost 10 minutes to my usual time which actually isn’t fast.

But hey, I finished this competition. My battery worked well, I had a bright light until the end of the run. And I didn’t hurt which is not a matter of course nowadays. Photos from Sam.
Next year there will be another try. ;-)]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2011-01-17T21:30:01+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b78affa7fd6d46ef1b649450a6431a21-245.html#unique-entry-id-245http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b78affa7fd6d46ef1b649450a6431a21-245.html#unique-entry-id-245
The weather was sunny and we could watch the different landscapes. Madrid was like an „old friend“, since we had Nadine with us who speaks Spanish and knew all the good places to be :-)
There we also met the guest-family during her Au-pair stay two years ago. Monday was the final shopping trip for Nadine while Marianne and me visited the town center (Sol).

Here I saw these policemen on their horses (more photos from the Citytour).
]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2011-01-14T21:09:35+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/36d9a5434676b9e21d8e453c78a7b12e-244.html#unique-entry-id-244http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/36d9a5434676b9e21d8e453c78a7b12e-244.html#unique-entry-id-244Valencia. This beautiful city is situated on the Mediterranean coast. There is an interesting mix of the old and the new. Especially notable is the „The city of Arts and Sciences“ (Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias) in the old riverbed Turia.

We have also visited the new harbor that was built for the 32. America’s cup in 2007 (see the photos on Flickr).
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I did this model already at the age of 14 but it ended in a mess. When Tamiya showed the Heinkel He-219 in the scale 1:48 my decision was clear: building the „Uhu“ again but in 1:72 and as close as possible to the Tamiya kit. I bought the best possible kit around, the DML Dragon ‚Golden Wing Series’ He219A-7 along with all the various aftermarket sets that make sense. In 2003 I finished the cockpit part with additional details.

For me the most critical part was the painting of the mottles at the top of the model. During the last years I could improve my airbrush equipment and skills a little bit. And so the model gets its painting last week. Now it needs only a little weathering and some kind of diorama around it but this shouldn’t take another eight years. Stay tuned ..]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2010-12-30T22:07:15+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/6cc37ff18bba5e32255796a858723096-242.html#unique-entry-id-242http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/6cc37ff18bba5e32255796a858723096-242.html#unique-entry-id-242
This year we went to see the „International Luftfahrt-Museum“ at Villingen-Schwenningen, a private exibition with most of the aircrafts displayed outdoors.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2010-12-26T21:56:35+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/431aed1a72036c986ccc3bb002acdaf3-241.html#unique-entry-id-241http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/431aed1a72036c986ccc3bb002acdaf3-241.html#unique-entry-id-241
During about two weeks we had a „real winter“ with snow and temperatures below -10° C. This was also the case on Stefan’s day (Boxing Day) when we went out for a walk near the Rossbuck (more photos).]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2010-12-18T19:28:57+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/0f87076f9f23a2273578aedfb7cd27e6-240.html#unique-entry-id-240http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/0f87076f9f23a2273578aedfb7cd27e6-240.html#unique-entry-id-240
Last week I have prepared my night-o equipment. This year I will start with a Lupine Tesla with a special Li-Io battery pack. I am already using it during my trainings at night.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2010-10-22T21:43:26+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3ecf1c0363c4f7b4426744a29c4b22dc-239.html#unique-entry-id-239http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3ecf1c0363c4f7b4426744a29c4b22dc-239.html#unique-entry-id-239bike trip (course in the language of GPS) in the Randen region.

Together with Alain we’ve started at Hemmental to our trip to the three observation towers Hagenturm, Schleitheimer Randenturm and Siblinger Randentrum (photo album). Now there is only one tower missing, the Beringer Randenturm. Maybe we will visiting it next year :-)]]>uheb@bluewin.chComputing2010-10-19T21:28:21+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4378c53027c7f2380d9dad91db320415-238.html#unique-entry-id-238http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4378c53027c7f2380d9dad91db320415-238.html#unique-entry-id-238.. the colors of this new version are disappointing. While biking in the forrest one can hardly read the map because of the low contrast (light grey on green). After searching the Internet from A to Z and back I had all the possible applications to start modifying a Garmin map. Not on my Mac but on my virtual Windows machine. After a few nights working I am happy with the result.

The colors of the map are now similar to the previous version of the SwissTopo map for Garmin in either normal mode (see photo) or with the backlight on. Plus, I have removed a lot of text that I don’t need while on a bike ride.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2010-10-13T21:01:44+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/8f566d925862dcdda46509d1d8eede01-237.html#unique-entry-id-237http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/8f566d925862dcdda46509d1d8eede01-237.html#unique-entry-id-237Kitzbühel - the Legend, that’s what the slogan of this city is. We have won one week holiday in a hotel only four kilometers away from Kitzbühel at a contest. So we decide to go and see what’s all about that slogan. :-)

Kitzbühel is a nice little city comparable to St. Moritz (maybe) and like many other winter sport places Kitzbühel is famous regarding downhill skiing. One day Alain and me were hiking part of the „Streif“ up to the Hahenkamm while Marianne was running up the mountain.
We did also a couple of bike trips in the surrounding region (see photos).
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And so we start our preparation for this family party. We remember that our parents have invited all their friends already some time ago and everyone was excited about that - they were talking about it whenever they met again. But finding all the addresses after all this years took us some time.]]>uheb@bluewin.chComputing2009-11-19T21:38:22+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/7216da4b14b7224fe6e09bb2af19d88b-235.html#unique-entry-id-235http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/7216da4b14b7224fe6e09bb2af19d88b-235.html#unique-entry-id-235
While on my training that Thursday evening I was thinking how I could assist Nadine in Madrid with an external hard disk or something similar. During the week she emailed that her MacBook G4 was making a strange noise, probably the disk I thought. But when I returned home that evening I had an SMS on my phone telling me that the MacBook is dead. Time to take action because we will fly to Madrid tomorrow afternoon. Figure out what model will be best was one thing but finding a shop in Winterthur carrying that model with the bigger RAM was just plain luck. When I returned home I was once again surprised how easy and fast all my user data could be moved over to the new Mac, try doing this on a Window PC ;-)
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Now I have built the Pengie V flown by Captain Mike Gladych (HV-M). It is basically a Revell kit with PE parts added from Eduard and a decal set from AeroMaster. To get the best possible result for the natural metal belly I have used Alclad bare metal lacquers (photo gallery).]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2010-08-22T22:00:18+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/ab8e6bcb2813c749d60edcee025f0a10-233.html#unique-entry-id-233http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/ab8e6bcb2813c749d60edcee025f0a10-233.html#unique-entry-id-233
The map „God Grond“ has its history too. In 1987 the Swiss championship had to be cancelled due to several objections. Still not totally recovered from my knee operation I absolutely had to start at this event.]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2010-08-10T21:46:38+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/c599590ec863dd66e6b21e618fd49a38-232.html#unique-entry-id-232http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/c599590ec863dd66e6b21e618fd49a38-232.html#unique-entry-id-232
Now I own a model with features I have defined about 25 years ago: electric powered (brushless btw), gyro, radio with electronic mixers built in. So it is my turn to master this thing and learn to fly ;-)]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2010-07-28T21:36:57+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/94c790e9fe0ea7499f85d6043c1421c9-231.html#unique-entry-id-231http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/94c790e9fe0ea7499f85d6043c1421c9-231.html#unique-entry-id-231
hiking to Pontresina
From here we visited the National Park near Zernez and of course we were hiking to Pontresina because of the fine cakes in the cafe Puntschella (photo album).]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2010-07-03T17:31:58+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/a08427700020eb2ef9d25907eaa6d7bb-230.html#unique-entry-id-230http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/a08427700020eb2ef9d25907eaa6d7bb-230.html#unique-entry-id-230JuAir is operating four Ju 52 airplanes in Dübendorf. But these flight are fully booked for a long time ahead (usually more than one year).

When Sam an me were searching for a gift to Hannes 50th birthday we discussed such a flight. But it took us quite a while to finally get in the air. Both Sam and me took some photos and put them on Flickr (Sam’s album, Ueli’s album).]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2010-06-14T21:50:23+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/2b1fb7357ebe9b3264f254533c3c2657-229.html#unique-entry-id-229http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/2b1fb7357ebe9b3264f254533c3c2657-229.html#unique-entry-id-229 Swiss Relay Championship in orienteering was held in the Jura. We have been there the last time in 1994 for a five day o-event. Doing orienteering in this region is demanding in both aspects: map-reading and running. But this is exactly what I am enjoying.

The competition center was at the Village de Vacances de Lamoura shown on the far left side in this photo. I have taken a few more photos.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2010-05-27T20:06:54+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b7d8c15143182ef71adfeaec91afaf61-228.html#unique-entry-id-228http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b7d8c15143182ef71adfeaec91afaf61-228.html#unique-entry-id-228
They were invited to a little welcome party at our home. Nadine advised us what to prepare in advance.]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2010-05-25T07:25:46+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4304d8b4978c23d361bb2b8ffa8a52de-227.html#unique-entry-id-227http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4304d8b4978c23d361bb2b8ffa8a52de-227.html#unique-entry-id-227Seefeld Tirol. Again we could enjoy a very comfortable stay at the Schönruh hotel.
And as for trainings (photos), well the region there looks similar to the Scandinavian terrain, so it is always a pleasure to do orienteering in these forests.

Together with Martina and Corsin we set the first training on Saturday.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2010-04-24T21:45:30+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/d5599d8e8dd8dd2c644b4154b21a92b6-226.html#unique-entry-id-226http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/d5599d8e8dd8dd2c644b4154b21a92b6-226.html#unique-entry-id-226Thann near Mulhouse in the Alsace. There we met Anne and Michèle the daughters of Charlie and Collette, friends of our parents over the years. This time it was Hannes who searched the Internet and found the address of Michèle. But it took a couple of month to fix a date for this reunion (more photos by Sam)

In the afternoon we walked up the hill to the Croix du Rangen. From there we had a beautiful sight to Thann and its surroundings. ]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2010-03-20T22:03:23+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/df0bd71e051fac77f789385949fbc6d1-225.html#unique-entry-id-225http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/df0bd71e051fac77f789385949fbc6d1-225.html#unique-entry-id-225
and again with my brother Sam taking a few photos. I was glad to finally start at this competition too. There was a big traffic jam caused by an accident that more than doubles my driving time to the competition center. And since I didn’t know where the accident happened I was in doubt to arrive in time.]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2010-02-24T20:51:31+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/045ee2682c2eadd7d5102bd1d5910b0e-224.html#unique-entry-id-224http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/045ee2682c2eadd7d5102bd1d5910b0e-224.html#unique-entry-id-224
This kit in scale 1:72 is from Special Hobby. The Winnie Mae fits well to my collection of famous airplanes like the Spirit of St Louis from Charles Lindberg.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2010-02-27T20:41:14+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/150293394a5bd220afdc819afb71d337-223.html#unique-entry-id-223http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/150293394a5bd220afdc819afb71d337-223.html#unique-entry-id-223MegaJoule was leading their running weeks in Peguera (Mallorca).

After last years success they offered two courses now and therefore Marianne was working from 21. February to 6. March down in Spain. There are a lot of photos from this events on Flickr now (choose your album from the set).]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2010-03-03T20:19:52+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b7bb1875f5587b3115ffd6411b07cdf6-222.html#unique-entry-id-222http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b7bb1875f5587b3115ffd6411b07cdf6-222.html#unique-entry-id-222
Nothing special you might think at first but ..
.. the photos of the front cover and most of the ones in the story have been taken by my brother Sam who is specialized on this kind of photography. And there is also an interview of him and me regarding our passion photography and orienteering.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2010-03-12T20:13:34+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3ffb50f72593203865e2f2c4254f8aea-221.html#unique-entry-id-221http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3ffb50f72593203865e2f2c4254f8aea-221.html#unique-entry-id-221
footprints in the snow
This happened from mid december until now. I am wondering how long this will go on.
:-!]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-12-30T19:53:20+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/c33643e43ec5bd001c68e3e0b04559a4-220.html#unique-entry-id-220http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/c33643e43ec5bd001c68e3e0b04559a4-220.html#unique-entry-id-220Dornier museum at Friedrichshafen together with my two brothers.

The Dornier museum just opened last summer and the latest state of technology is incorporated to this exhibition. It was a pleasure to visit it and it is even close to Winterthur (see the photos).]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-12-21T20:24:42+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/328b5a6a8aa850150409fe42152bd7fb-219.html#unique-entry-id-219http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/328b5a6a8aa850150409fe42152bd7fb-219.html#unique-entry-id-219
Enough to have covered the landscape in white as you can see on this photo (photo taken at around 5 pm).]]>uheb@bluewin.chComputing2009-12-15T21:02:31+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3489b0e25fe1358e9f5ba162bfd991ac-218.html#unique-entry-id-218http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3489b0e25fe1358e9f5ba162bfd991ac-218.html#unique-entry-id-218
They had to simply be upgraded from Tiger or Leopard to Snow Leopard or migrated from one Mac to another. There were no big difficulties except one that didn’t display the emails in the message list and the preview window. Of course Snow Leopard in most cases needs new drivers for printers and scanners.
Beside this it is also getting colder and starts snowing here in Winterthur. I think it will be Christmas time really soon now
:-)]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-10-07T20:39:29+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/15cf7e45f51680a95da17fd5d606e8a7-217.html#unique-entry-id-217http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/15cf7e45f51680a95da17fd5d606e8a7-217.html#unique-entry-id-217
At Eglisau we had break for lunch before we were continuing our trip to Rüdlingen - Flaach - Volken - Henggart and back to Winterthur.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-11-22T21:48:06+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4cd9208fce60a4ee3f1fd73864e6653e-215.html#unique-entry-id-215http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4cd9208fce60a4ee3f1fd73864e6653e-215.html#unique-entry-id-215weekend to Madrid. We arrived on Friday evening by airplane and met Nadine for dinner.

On Saturday we went to the city (SOL) to see a few famous places (you can’t see every place in one weekend, this city is too big) and of course we were also shopping. On the next morning we were walking in the Retiro park and enjoying the beautiful autumn here in the south of Europe.]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2009-11-15T22:40:40+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/477c3352364a797aa80940b6046ede46-214.html#unique-entry-id-214http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/477c3352364a797aa80940b6046ede46-214.html#unique-entry-id-214
And by the way, this years color was blue. The members of the NWK-NOS always color their hair for that race.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-11-15T21:33:13+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/a8c1e6f0394bd2642fdd31786759726e-213.html#unique-entry-id-213http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/a8c1e6f0394bd2642fdd31786759726e-213.html#unique-entry-id-213
With a special train from the 30ies called Churchill-Pfeil we enjoyed a trip to Andelfingen - Rheinfall - Stein am Rhein - Kreuzlingen -Weinfelden - back to Winterthur. Its named after Sir Winston Churchill who visited Switzerland short after the 2nd WW. Then he did use this train to travel through Switzerland.]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2009-10-25T20:56:04+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/41d097e8c8084516a00775060eb0c7d0-212.html#unique-entry-id-212http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/41d097e8c8084516a00775060eb0c7d0-212.html#unique-entry-id-212I had a good start until control 8. Then I wasn’t concentrated for one short moment resulting in a fall.

On my route to control 9 I did one last check and get a fright on driving to control 6. Therefore I read the map in detail to find out that everything is ok; I had to pass control 6 again. But this double checking took two or three seconds more than expected. Too much!
I was driving straight away from the road into a small channel and ending at a big tree 10 meters away (more details).
Since nothing happened to my bike and I didn’t feel bad I continued my competition as good as possible. But I couldn’t sleep during the next two nights and when I went to the doctor he diagnoses two broken ribs at my back.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-09-17T11:32:23+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/58ab1334d74f5b4c0a32e0a8259b7d75-211.html#unique-entry-id-211http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/58ab1334d74f5b4c0a32e0a8259b7d75-211.html#unique-entry-id-211
Here she has packed all her luggage and is ready to leave. We accompany her to the airport in Zurich.
]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-09-08T11:26:13+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/5a22179c65e8f5ad24fbadba6c3142d4-210.html#unique-entry-id-210http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/5a22179c65e8f5ad24fbadba6c3142d4-210.html#unique-entry-id-210

Taking a look into our album brings back a lot of memories :-)
]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-08-28T19:15:00+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b4798dc10d30db1de56f42ae2dc01986-209.html#unique-entry-id-209http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b4798dc10d30db1de56f42ae2dc01986-209.html#unique-entry-id-209Kantonschule Rychenberg to be part of the maturity celebration. This - I would say - ceremonial act was held at the Stadthaus in Winterthur.

class by class every single student gets his result and certificate from the prorector of the Gymnasium Rychenberg Mister Jürgen Thon Benz.
]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-07-22T16:09:29+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/95f1b8b1970ce4affddb5daf0513bdc1-208.html#unique-entry-id-208http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/95f1b8b1970ce4affddb5daf0513bdc1-208.html#unique-entry-id-208exhibition at Peenmünde was almost a "must have" to me.

The "Historical Technical Information Center" (HTI) is located mainly at the former power station. Today it focuses on rocket science. But during the period from 1936 to 1945 it was also a test site for the German air force (Luftwaffe). Btw the rocket testing and development was under contol of the army (Heer) then.
Pictures from the HTI are on my Flickr photoset Ostsee 2009.
]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-07-25T15:54:38+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/07cb5d35deff1ca42a47376e708ea74b-207.html#unique-entry-id-207http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/07cb5d35deff1ca42a47376e708ea74b-207.html#unique-entry-id-207Ostvorpommern. There we had rented bicycles. We then were biking from town to town. Our journey starts at Stralsund. On the following days we stayed at Greifswald, Wolgast, Zinnowitz and Usedom.

Alain in front of the Hotel Preussenhof at Zinnowitz
At Usedom we left our bikes and took a bus to Anklam from where the train leaves back to Switzerland. As selection of the huge amount of photos is on my Ostsee 2009 Flickr ablum.
]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2009-05-09T22:05:43+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/dc3e5e66f1cabccb033af1494a193c34-206.html#unique-entry-id-206http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/dc3e5e66f1cabccb033af1494a193c34-206.html#unique-entry-id-206
Together with four colleagues we started in Winterthur. Winterthur - Turbenthal - Steg was a good road and from Steg the real biking begins. I've recorded this part (Steg - Wolfsgrueb - Hand - Schindelberg - Tierhag - Grossegg - Steg) with my GPS and uploaded it to my Garmin Connect account.

There are a few more photos on an album on my Flickr account.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-04-14T21:07:01+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/cf6eb970db53aac3e5c313f6e2b7ced6-205.html#unique-entry-id-205http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/cf6eb970db53aac3e5c313f6e2b7ced6-205.html#unique-entry-id-205bike trip (around 20km) to Moorwilen, Klingenzell and Freudenfels whereras Nadine and Marianne were staying in a training camp in Ravensburg (Germany). But on Easter Monday we met at the Weinfelder OL in Thundorf.

Here Alain is passing the control number 97 near the end of his course on H14.]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2009-04-05T19:47:11+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/18fb849a779bc0e1dd4a116e14cb202a-204.html#unique-entry-id-204http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/18fb849a779bc0e1dd4a116e14cb202a-204.html#unique-entry-id-204Swiss championship in night orienteering toke place.

Again Sämi, my brother, was taking photos of this event. It is amazing to see how he captured the special scene of a night orienteering event (more photos on his website).
After a few trainings I knew that I could run for about one hour without having problems with my knee. Therefore I decided to start in the class men short "HAK".
]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-03-12T20:02:51+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/0a1c2ad2c4a489dc1d43cea0a1954c8a-203.html#unique-entry-id-203http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/0a1c2ad2c4a489dc1d43cea0a1954c8a-203.html#unique-entry-id-203
The castle Hohenklingen has been reopened as a restaurant last summer after rennovation. The castle is open to the public. From the main tower you have an excellent view to the west (seen here), the south and the east.]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2009-02-21T14:56:10+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4ab8e2d3631b5c470f0c04fd3778c333-201.html#unique-entry-id-201http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4ab8e2d3631b5c470f0c04fd3778c333-201.html#unique-entry-id-201
(photo by Sam Hebeisen)
Well on this Friday night it was quite busy in the Ochsenfurt near Weiningen because the NWK-NOS started their training weekend with a night-o training too. My brother Sam took a couple of photos from the night-o training on 20. February 2009.
]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2009-02-14T21:43:34+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/0c92789ab479d78402301332182c09eb-200.html#unique-entry-id-200http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/0c92789ab479d78402301332182c09eb-200.html#unique-entry-id-200Mitgliederversammlung) of thurgorienta was held in Hüttwilen. The same place as last years Seebachtal weekend with two big orienteering competitions. As usual the club-OL preceds the general meeting. This year we have a strong winter time and that Saturday makes no exception. It was heavy snowing during the whole afternoon.
But hey, that's winter as we know it!
]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2009-02-08T21:28:03+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/e0fd3c6720817ff8752cd5f06dbca573-199.html#unique-entry-id-199http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/e0fd3c6720817ff8752cd5f06dbca573-199.html#unique-entry-id-199last year already. After getting an old Dragon kit of a Cayuse I wasn't satisfied with the result. In november last year I red in the news of Scale Rotors that there is a Fujimi kit in 1:48 available and I decide to build that model again. But this time in a smaller scale.

The Fujimi kit is for a Huges 500D type and there is a conversion kit available to get an OH-6A (V-tail, four blade rotor). But everything else you have to build on your own. There are almost no aftermarket products around. Thanks to the nice folks on the Scale Rotors forum I not only get valuable informations about painting and markings but I also get in contact with Fireball Modelworks who made dedicated decal set just for me. I have posted that model to the gallery there.]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2009-02-07T21:22:49+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b976759c07c78dfb1e9e0d8701a60a80-198.html#unique-entry-id-198http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/b976759c07c78dfb1e9e0d8701a60a80-198.html#unique-entry-id-198]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2009-01-24T21:22:11+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/70bbf98525f8b063232b18ec58b06767-197.html#unique-entry-id-197http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/70bbf98525f8b063232b18ec58b06767-197.html#unique-entry-id-197]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2008-12-18T20:42:31+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/05829bd5658b87c8aacc35842d5b4474-195.html#unique-entry-id-195http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/05829bd5658b87c8aacc35842d5b4474-195.html#unique-entry-id-195thurgorienta produces a new orienteering map every year. And this year again we don't break it. So starting late in the autumn - we had to find a date first to
explain the rules for this map to all the mappers - with my part in the very east of the Immenberg I had to fight against the weather too. Most of the time I did my fieldwork I was working in the snow. Not to say that the temperatures are around 0° celsius (brrr) :-[. But this is no reason not to do the fieldwork. I had to stop only if there was also fog because it prevents my laser from working. And as you can see I always was carrying a thermos flask with hot tea with me. That helped me a lot.
After finishing my fieldwork in a reasonable time I start drawing my part of the map. Just a few days before Christmas I could finish the first version. As soon as the weather allows I will do a check of the map to see if I got everthing right. If you come to Thundorf on easter monday (13. April 2009) you can go for a competition on this new map Immenberg-Nord. Maybe you will pass this particular part, you never know ;-) .
Don't miss it. The details will be provided on the swiss orienteering website as soon as possible.
]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2008-11-22T20:31:37+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/0ec9aff54a2598de326b9091ec6a94f6-194.html#unique-entry-id-194http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/0ec9aff54a2598de326b9091ec6a94f6-194.html#unique-entry-id-194
Side by side to the Blade CX this is a realy tiny one but the flight characteristics are great I wouldn't have expected such a good performance. And because everything is so small there are only small forces e.g. if you do a 'hard' landing. You hardly can break something on it.
But this e-heli really just for indoor flying due to its size and weight.
]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2008-10-30T20:25:12+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/dcd5b0c5694c29646f3dfe7a14f637c2-193.html#unique-entry-id-193http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/dcd5b0c5694c29646f3dfe7a14f637c2-193.html#unique-entry-id-193Bell AH-1G cobra with an outstanding scheme.

The 120th aviation company stationed at Ford Richardson (Alaska) used this scheme for their cobra helicopters during 1973. Joseph Osborn from Fireball Modelworks has released a decal set for the "Artic Knights". However finding the best kit on ebay wasn't that easy. But at the end I had everything together to build this special heli.]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2008-09-10T22:35:21+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/8b2fbe46cfcef9c265bc47bacff67450-189.html#unique-entry-id-189http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/8b2fbe46cfcef9c265bc47bacff67450-189.html#unique-entry-id-189Garmin sells the Edge 705.
The Garmin Edge 605 and 705 are GPS with sensors dedicated to bikes (street- and mountain-bikes) and this latest generation can display maps too.

Using GPS to record training data and having a map that shows your course is somewhat different to a GPS in your car. I still have to learn a lot.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2008-07-31T16:28:21+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/87ea9cc8db627a7cf5026c195b02948b-187.html#unique-entry-id-187http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/87ea9cc8db627a7cf5026c195b02948b-187.html#unique-entry-id-187Nordvestgaloppen an orienteering event in the Vestland district of Norway. Nordvestgaloppen is held every second year. This years event center was located in Voss.

With 'only' about 1000 participants NVG is a small event compared to O-ringen but we enjoyed the ambience even more. Visit the album on my Flickr account to see more photos of our vacation.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2008-07-27T16:16:06+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/04135a7ac0d9137e62f37023b24f60fc-186.html#unique-entry-id-186http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/04135a7ac0d9137e62f37023b24f60fc-186.html#unique-entry-id-186Jotunheimen one day.

We enjoyed this area because of the mountains. In Lom we could also visit the Fjellmuseum that provides interesting informations about the mountains in Norway.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2008-07-24T16:02:43+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/76586aa1407d69c838f8c1cdf57d2d56-185.html#unique-entry-id-185http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/76586aa1407d69c838f8c1cdf57d2d56-185.html#unique-entry-id-185O-ringen in Sälen (Dalarna) from 21. to 25. july.

We were staying at Stöten which is close to the Norwegian boarder (about 2km). This five day orienteering event is really big, around 23000 competitors in more than 120 classes had registered.]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2008-05-25T15:46:15+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/dd08c8ec54cec001fa90579150e56e7d-182.html#unique-entry-id-182http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/dd08c8ec54cec001fa90579150e56e7d-182.html#unique-entry-id-182Hasegawa belong to the best models you can buy today. So I couldn't resist and bought one last december.

And as mentioned on the hobby page (plastic kits) I have added a few PE parts from Eduarad (cockpit, flaps, ..). The Wildcat was a carrier based aircraft mainly used in the Pacific theatre so I needed also a carrier deck to show the model. Just Plane Stuff is selling various carrier decks build in resin. After more than 50 hours this modell is now ready to display (see more photos on flickr).]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2008-05-16T10:48:48+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/27ab007b44a0d99ce669f7db01b97628-181.html#unique-entry-id-181http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/27ab007b44a0d99ce669f7db01b97628-181.html#unique-entry-id-181
In the afternoon I went for a short bicycle tour and visited them in Dinhard. Driving with a bicycle is now possible again after my surgical operation at my right knee almost four weeks ago.]]>uheb@bluewin.chComputing2008-05-16T10:32:27+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/756c771369ddc85bdebe0afc5ba121be-180.html#unique-entry-id-180http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/756c771369ddc85bdebe0afc5ba121be-180.html#unique-entry-id-180history) as a place where someone could find and see information about me and my life. The Internet is not only growing very fast but also has changed in different relations. Today many people do run their own websites and I was often asked why my website is in english. When searching for another domain name I decide to search also for an .ch domain and to start a german website.

Now the first Version of that german website is up and running. It is not just a translation because I assume other readers and have changed the information to give them more details about one thing and omitt others because they might already know it or wouldn't be interested in.
]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2008-05-02T10:10:36+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/ca213b435a621cef2b22347aaeb51bd0-179.html#unique-entry-id-179http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/ca213b435a621cef2b22347aaeb51bd0-179.html#unique-entry-id-179
This kit is now finished but I am dissapointed somewhat. Because it is from the 90s there aren't such fine details as today. Luckily I found a detail set from Eduard to get a few details inside (cockpit, harness, ..) and outside. Next were the decals, because they are of age it was almost impossible (for me) to get them from the paper to the model and even if I sprayed it with a gloss primer first there were these ugly silver shadows on a few of them. Maybe there will be a new kit of an OH-6A in 1:35 in the future with all the bells and whistles. Then I'l buy one for sure.
]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2008-04-22T09:48:55+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/5aa2b1aeb381420ee7a8746ce5db6c04-178.html#unique-entry-id-178http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/5aa2b1aeb381420ee7a8746ce5db6c04-178.html#unique-entry-id-178This is a photo I got from the doctor after the operation. It show the two bones and between the red lines the damaged meniscus. Unfortunately the cartilage (Knorpel) on the upper bone is also affected.
Now I am doing exercises to recover as soon as possible. When writing this entry (it is now two weeks since the operation) I can do cycling on a trainer. At the moment there is no statement possible about my future sporting activites but I hope for the best (as always)
:-)]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2008-04-13T11:04:20+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3b5dc9d88bdeb1c9a64e86911987cc47-177.html#unique-entry-id-177http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3b5dc9d88bdeb1c9a64e86911987cc47-177.html#unique-entry-id-177Hüttwilen and its neighborhood toke place this weekend. Together with Marianne I was working in the team that was responsible for the courses and controls on both days. We started our work already on friday afternoon and it ends late on sunday.

Adi and me relaxing in the forrest watching the runners short after the start
Only during the competition time we had the chance to slow down a little bit being ready to replace a control in case of failure. This photo was taken by Sämi as an offical photographer of this event.]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2008-03-15T21:17:52+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/e295255b9ffdcf1331155a243f62aee2-175.html#unique-entry-id-175http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/e295255b9ffdcf1331155a243f62aee2-175.html#unique-entry-id-175
Alain sitting on the wall of the former tower on the Schauenberg
In the back you may see the villages of Eschlikon and Aadorf.
]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2007-12-29T22:31:22+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3664c3a4bf3715c7187591574b571d4e-169.html#unique-entry-id-169http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/3664c3a4bf3715c7187591574b571d4e-169.html#unique-entry-id-169German Museum in Munich and the exhibition at the Flugwerft Schleissheim some kilometers north of Munich.


here are the "big birds": German rocket fighter Me163 above the Me262

It was Sam's idea quite a while ago to see the real aircrafts in a museum. Since both Hannes and me are building plastic kits and flying radio controlled airplane models it was a really good idea to visit an aviation museum once. Having an idea is one thing but finding a date and the best possible museum was again not so easy since each of us has different hobbies and schedules.
Munich is not far from us - about three hours by car, and Munich has two exhibition to offer. Avionics as a part the public transportation in the German Museum and the one in Oberschleissheim 20km north of the center of Munich.


helicopters at the exhibition hall in Schleissheim

The Flugwerft in Schleissheim is dedicated to avionic and has a visitors gallery to see what is going on in the restauration workshop. Currently they are working on a Heinkel He-111 bomber of the World War II. There are photos of it on the flickr set named Schleissheim.
Sure photography is another hobby of us and there are sets of Sam and me on flickr too.

]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2007-12-22T20:55:57+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/663d2212b6bbd0ce3bb6cfffafee3bab-168.html#unique-entry-id-168http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/663d2212b6bbd0ce3bb6cfffafee3bab-168.html#unique-entry-id-168NOSOL training to Staubhausen near Uzwil. I haven't been there since ever and now and then I am being surprised what parts in our neighborhood are still undiscovered
;-)


NOSOL training on the map Hohrain, first runners arriving

NOSOL trainings are dedicated trainings to improve your orienteering skills. I don't know exactly what NOSOL stands for but that doesn't matter. This years trainings are coordinated by Beat Hubmann aka "Bidi" (his nickname in the NWK NOS squad) and todays training was planned by his brother Dani a well known orienteer worldwide.
]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2007-12-08T19:35:41+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/902375540d23ccd73d81b51014576aac-167.html#unique-entry-id-167http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/902375540d23ccd73d81b51014576aac-167.html#unique-entry-id-167This year he stopped near a hut on the orienteering map Hummbelberg a few kilometers south west of Wilen. Alain and me had no problem to find the forest but finding Santa Claus was difficult because of the o-course. But we managed that again and Alain could tell his "Värsli" (peom).



It is amazing how much Santa Claus knows about all the orienteers from our region ;-) More photos of Santa and "Schmutzli" on Flickr.
 ]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2007-10-28T21:51:59+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/74ac99d74f7b8e2bd64ccde009d7d289-165.html#unique-entry-id-165http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/74ac99d74f7b8e2bd64ccde009d7d289-165.html#unique-entry-id-165Since we enjoied our summer vacation in Halden and Göteborg very much we decided to go once again to Scandinavia and booked a short trip to Stockholm.


underground station Hötorget, the blue T stands for Tunnelbana

Similar weather as in Winterthur but a little more windy and still the beautiful colours of autumn in the parks and streets. And to no suprise the shopping streets are still crowded with people :-)
_]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2007-10-17T20:31:54+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/9cb247e25fccff92e7fae6bee99ab23d-164.html#unique-entry-id-164http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/9cb247e25fccff92e7fae6bee99ab23d-164.html#unique-entry-id-164Sportzentrum Kerenzerberg in Filzbach. This is one of the biggest sport centers in the north east part of Switzerland. The gymnasts of TV Veltheim are celebrating their 100th anniversary and they organized this camp for their young gymnasts.


Visitors day

On Wednesday there was the official visiting day. Marianne and Nadine went to Filzbach and enjoyed a sunny day together with Alain and the other children.
  
]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2007-08-02T22:30:18+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/2ff22b9520485980dbfdea2855394046-160.html#unique-entry-id-160http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/2ff22b9520485980dbfdea2855394046-160.html#unique-entry-id-160NWK-NOS for two weeks of orienteering training.


traveling routes in southern Scandinavia, up to Halden (1), next to Lerum (2) near Göteborg and to Billund (3)

At both locations we stayed in a club "Hytte" somewhere out in the nature. I rareley could take pictures because most of the time I was takeing videos. There are only a handful of photos on a flickr set.

We left three days earlier to visit Legoland in Billund (Denmark).
 ]]>uheb@bluewin.chSports2007-06-27T20:45:56+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/5b2b0e642f1847576cfbe7976ed2ecef-157.html#unique-entry-id-157http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/5b2b0e642f1847576cfbe7976ed2ecef-157.html#unique-entry-id-157

Alain short after his leg (2.9 kilometers)

Even though this event is for school kids only it comes up with a professional organisation. There is even an online result list on the Internet. The team from the 5th class at Schachen (Mittelstufe) became 34th.
 ]]>uheb@bluewin.chComputing2007-03-02T19:00:39+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/e476fcd66a3d03906c1e8009ebc070e7-150.html#unique-entry-id-150http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/e476fcd66a3d03906c1e8009ebc070e7-150.html#unique-entry-id-150portability not computing power or a big screen. No one except me is working with the iMac because it is tied to the table in our home office. I was glad to have such a powerful computer for drawing the last orienteering map. But now, that it is finished my demand turns toward portable computing too.
That's why we get another portable Apple computer now, a MacBook 13".


Notebook gallery at Hebeisen's

This is also the time to retire the iBook SE (special edition). It is the last computer still running the Classic OS and having the slower WiFi bandwidth but it was working perfect up to today as an eMail client.
Concerning the iMac G5 it will be sold in the next couple of weeks on ebay or another web auction.
 ]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2007-01-28T21:50:54+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/Glarisegg_o-map.html#unique-entry-id-146http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/Glarisegg_o-map.html#unique-entry-id-146MapStudio.

After one and a half week I could finish the first and most important part of the map (see picture):


Glarisegg contour lines (brown)

Having the contour lines together with cliffs and rocks watecourses roads and pathes makes more than half of the map. Now only the vegetation (green color) is missing. This gives information about the runnability to the competitors. On the upper right corner you see the already existing part of the o-map Eichhölzli done by Adi Moser last year.
 ]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2007-01-07T17:20:59+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4dc4c0289832f1cf26c3448c477df11b-145.html#unique-entry-id-145http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4dc4c0289832f1cf26c3448c477df11b-145.html#unique-entry-id-145couple of photos.



Hoovering higher than 3 meters is new to me, I will have to do more such exercises.
 ]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2006-12-05T21:04:04+01:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/acbdec9c59ff024a1853d4fa486d6d7d-143.html#unique-entry-id-143http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/acbdec9c59ff024a1853d4fa486d6d7d-143.html#unique-entry-id-143
My decision was for a Lama V3 from E-Sky because for this model I can use my preferred radio. And then there were a lot of recommendations out in the Internet for this brand heli.


of course I need a personal design as with the Bell 47G *g*

This is my Lama repainted after a Swiss Alouette II from BOHAG. First impression is that the Lama reacts more direct to controls than the Bell and therefore makes it more dynamic to flight. On the other side I had to learn the limitations of this rotor system (crash if the flybar touches the rotor head).
Now I own two of these coax-helis. That's because I could successfully repair the 4-in-1 of the Bell 47G. Let's see which one lasts longer.
 ]]>uheb@bluewin.chFamily2006-10-11T22:36:50+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/eb38251db087df306a932167077be27d-139.html#unique-entry-id-139http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/eb38251db087df306a932167077be27d-139.html#unique-entry-id-139

this picture was taken from the "Öhrlisattel" about one and a half kilometer away from the Säntis

On this day we found excellent wheather conditions (good sight) that made the trip a real pleasure. Ok, at the end it gets tough because of the climbing and of course we get tired after almost 4 hours of walking.


the red cirle markes the point from where the first photo was taken

I had done this tour already with Nadine when she was 10 but we didn't had such a beautiful sight then.
 ]]>uheb@bluewin.chHobby2006-10-02T21:55:41+02:00http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4e40e5beeba2af93e18efb446af3260a-138.html#unique-entry-id-138http://www.uhebeisen.net/files/4e40e5beeba2af93e18efb446af3260a-138.html#unique-entry-id-138USNTPS.
However before I go out and buy such an rc heli I will build one (or two) as plastic kits, it costs far less than the "real" thing. There is currently only one kit available from Italeri. I know there are other Hughes types (MD-500D, Little Birds) around but I was searching for a kit with the V-tail.



Next I had to made my own decals. This was new to me, I haven't done that before. Designing and printing them worked seamless. But when applying them to the models they didn't adhere to it. I haven't any idea what went wrong, if you have any suggestions please let me know.
At the end I finished the number 43 and 45 of these helicopters (more photos as usual on my flickr account).



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