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title = "Dominic Reich “OE7DRT”"
date = 2019-08-21
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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
## Some status information
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
ASL.
The images below were made with [QTH Locator Map by **HB9EYZ**][qthloc].
[qthloc]: https://www.hb9eyz.ch/g_locator.php
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 S0 to S1 combined with a lot of noise
and when I try to reply I won't get picked up so easy (still 5W).
## 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.
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.
_Also, keep in mind that the information on my websites could go offline at
any time (although it is online since 2019)_.
## 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:
~~~
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 >}}
## 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**.