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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 and I guess this will
probably not increase very much.

[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 <kbd>dominic<span style="display:none;">+spams</span>@oe7drt.com</kbd>
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

I've had a few websites running over the recent years, but when I got my
radio amateur callsign I started over with fresh content on `oe7drt.com`.
It was stored as a Github repository and published via Cloudflare.

I moved later to a cloud server from Hetzner running Rocky Linux 8 and 9
(which were both located in Finland) and I'm finally happy with netcup and my
OpenBSD server located in Germany. When I hosted my own gitea instance I left
the website repo on my server and create the website over there, when I now
create the website on my local laptop and push the files onto the webserver
just when I push new commits into the git repository on codeberg.