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## whoami

Hello, my name is **Dominic** and I maintain this website.  
I am a licensed ham radio operator since 2019 and my callsign is **OE7DRT**.

My QTH is **[Längenfeld]**, [Tyrol], [Austria]. The locator for that is [JN57lb].  
There is currently no antenna set up at my home QTH so I operate portable only
since the end of 2021---I've not been very active recently but I'm sure my new
lightweight equipment can help me out on that matter.

[Längenfeld]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A4ngenfeld
[Tyrol]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrol
[Austria]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria
[JN57lb]: http://www.levinecentral.com/ham/grid_square.php?Grid=JN57lb

Have a look at the pages under [/equipment/]({{< ref "/equipment/" >}}) for
an overview of the equipment that I use (or have used/had). :wink:

## What's up?

I publish new articles whenever time let me do it. As I am working 10h shifts a
day on a building site I am quite worn at the end of the day and I can't gather
myself up enough to go out in the field when I'm just hungry (and tired)
:tired_face:  

I do not have an antenna set up at my home QTH so my experience relies on my
portable operations here.

## About this website

My website is a **personal storage** of a set of information about many
**different things**---mostly about **amateur radio** and **linux**'isch
computer stuff. The main goal of my blog is for my **personal usage**.
That is because some articles may not explain everything---I hope I can
reproduce a working setup (for me) with all the steps provided in these articles.

I could have saved some links in my bookmarks, right? Well, I have. But I do
that now for a long time and it sometimes happens, that one or another link
becomes unavailable and hosting my own set of information does not result in
these situations in any way. As long as I'm willing to host them.

You can **use** the **information** on these pages for **yourself**.
Just keep in mind, that some of them may **not be objective** or even accurate.
The opposite is true. I fill them with **my opinions and experiences**; some
with solutions---some not.

_Also, keep in mind that the information on my websites could go offline at
any time (although it is online since 2019)_.

### Statistics

Google Analytics (evil) and Microsoft Clarity (much evil) are common
statistic-plugins for your website. I've tried both as well as matomo. They
have one thing in common: they collect data, that I personally wouldn't want
to be collected from me. And what you don't want to be done to you…

Luckily I found the website of
[Fathom Analytics](https://usefathom.com/ref/CQWXMA). They collect statistics

1. GDPO compliant and
2. they do not collect so much "useless" data.

You can
[view my website statistics here](https://app.usefathom.com/share/lncfuaat/oe7drt).

## Contact

Use `dominic@oe7drt.com` to send me emails.

Feel free to encrypt your message with OpenPGP and make sure you got this
fingerprint:

~~~
D49A 3CE2 CCF7 2668 4D98  9A31 BC9D 6AE1 A3BE 169A
~~~

My public key is on [keys.openpgp.org][key] or on [my website][web] (\~4KB).

[key]: https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=D49A+3CE2+CCF7+2668+4D98+9A31+BC9D+6AE1+A3BE+169A
[web]: /files/A3BE169A.asc

{{< alert >}}
Please do not send me guest articles. This is not a tech magazine but **my
personal website**.
{{< /alert >}}

## Server location and networking

The webserver, which converts my website's git repository into
static html files is located in **Finland**. The domain is registered
at `name.com`, which points my domain to nameservers at **Cloudflare**.
My website is also **cached** and **distributed** by the Cloudflare
network.

That is also true for my personal single-user instance of Mastodon, which is
located at [fedi.oe7drt.com](https://fedi.oe7drt.com)---except there are a few
more modifications done at Cloudflare because I do not host the media files
on my server but in a
[B2 bucket at backblaze](https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html).
Cloudflare rewrites a few headers and URLs in this case. For example: the
`Cache-control:` gets expanded to a high value at Cloudflare as well as the
`etag` gets generated at Cloudflare in case the original file changes at
backblaze before the cached file gets removed from your (actually my) cache.

## Licenses

The content on my website is licensed under the [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0][cc] ---
unless specified otherwise. This includes images (as well as screenshots).

Code (programs, source code, scripts) on my website is **usually** licensed
under the [MIT license][mit].

For attribution a link back to my website (`oe7drt.com`) should be enough.

[cc]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
[mit]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

**Photographs** are more elaborately produces images and if you want to republish
any of them you have to **ask for permission before**. This also includes
**panoramas**.

(Well, since I am not so active: there are currently (2023-01-23) no
photographs online.