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dateFormat = "2 January 2006"
[author]
name = "Dominic Reich “OE7DRT”"
name = "Dominic Reich"
image = "img/author.jpg"
headline = "ham radio operator"
headline = "I'm an average goofy person from tyrol"
bio = """Quickndirty facts: mid-30s, construction worker since 2016,
electrician before, likes tech stuff and nature. Uses this website as a
digital notebook."""

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# vim: ft=markdown
title = "OE7DRT"
description = "my personal website"
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My personal website that I use mainly to keep track on different topics
mainly on tech stuff like amateur radio or general computer related topics
with a flavor of Linux.

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# vim: ft=markdown
title = "Dominic Reich “OE7DRT”"
date = 2019-08-21
lastmod = 2022-11-12
lastmod = "2023-02-16T13:57:35+0100"
comment = false
showReadingTime = false
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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**.
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[Austria]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria
[JN57lb]: http://www.levinecentral.com/ham/grid_square.php?Grid=JN57lb
## Some status information
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 in this mountainous region. I enjoy some walks every
now and then but I can't carry my 16 to 18 kilograms portable equipment always
with me---specially not after a work shift.
So that is the reason that my website grows very slowly, I haven't even found
the time to write something nice about my used
[equipment]({{< ref "equipment" >}}), but occassionally I take the time
to update this or that...
## Repeaters near my QTH
Those are the repeaters around my home, which is around 1180m
<abbr title="above sea level">ASL</abbr>.
The images below were made with [QTH Locator Map by **HB9EYZ**][qthloc].
[qthloc]: https://www.hb9eyz.ch/g_locator.php
![OE7XGI Home](oe7xgi_home.png "OE7XGI Ötztal (about 22.8km south-east)")
![OE7XWH Home](oe7xwh_home.png "OE7XWH Grünberg (about 22km north)")
![OE7XOI Home](oe7xoi_home.png "OE7XOI Fiss (about 26.7km west)")
![OE7XTR Home](oe7xtr_home.png "OE7XTR Krahberg (about 27.6km west)")
![OE7XBI Home](oe7xbi_home.png "OE7XBI Rangger Köpfl (about 24.7km north-east)")
![OE7XVR Home](oe7xvr_home.png "OE7XVR Valluga (about 58.5km west)")
![OE7XRT Home](oe7xrt_home.png "OE7XRT Hahnenkamm Reutte (about 51.4km north-west)")
![OE7XZR Home](oe7xzr_home.png "OE7XZR Zugspitze (about 40.5km north)")
![OE7XGR Home](oe7xgr_home.png "OE7XGR Gefrorene Wand (about 53.4km east)")
![OE7XOT Home](oe7xot_home.png "OE7XOT Obtarrenz (about 28km north-east)")
For now, I only own some handheld radios for VHF/UHF so I do not reach
those repeaters from my terrace. I can sometimes open the first two repeaters.
I scan those repeaters when I'm hiking and I can sometimes hear them, but they
are mostly around <kbd>S0</kbd> to <kbd>S1</kbd> combined with a lot of noise
and when I try to reply I won't get picked up so easy (still 5W).
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 computerstuff. 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.
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 very objective or even accurate. The opposite is true.
I fill them with my opinions and experiences; some with solutions---some not.
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, use the address mentioned above
and make sure you got this fingerprint:
Feel free to encrypt your message with OpenPGP and make sure you got this
fingerprint:
~~~
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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] ---
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**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.

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