About
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 - the locator for that is 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 ;-)
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, but occassionally I take the time to update this or that (this is even more likely if it is more relevant in time).
Repeaters around
Those are the repeaters around my home (and my second home). My QTH is around 1180m above sea level (my second home is nearly the same; but 16km to the north).
| Home QTH, Längenfeld | Second QTH, Ötz |
|---|---|
For now, I only own some handheld radios so I do not reach those repeaters from my terrace. I can sometimes open the first two repeater
About this website
My website is a personal storage of a set of information about many different things — mostly about ham radio and other tech 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 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 need 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 reverse 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 anytime.
Contact
You can contact me via email, the address is dominic@ – append the
domain-name of my website (the one that you are browsing right now) to it.
Feel free to encrypt your message with OpenPGP, use the adress 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 or on my website (~4KB).
Use the form below, make sure to use a valid email address if you want an answer back!
I hope you are patient – I will take my time to respond.
Licenses
The content on my website is licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 —
unless specified otherwise. Content can be text or images or other media that is
used in an article or to display an article. Content is mostly saved within
/content, /static and /static/images but may not be limited to them.
Content files are mostly png, jpg, pdf and md files but may not be
limited to them.
Code on my website is usually licensed under the MIT license. This license also applies to the codebase of my website.
For attribution a link back to my website (oe7drt.com) should be enough.
Other resources
I used to maintain a broader range of topics on my other website
dominicreich.com. I changed the backend software and themes here and there,
mostly trying to find a better solution as the one I currently have ;-)
For reference, my older website are still accessible on the following URLs:
That is the first site that was published with a static site generator. I used Jekyll at that time. Thanks to Michael Rose and his efforts on his own website I was able to publish a changed version as my own website.
After some time I wanted something slim and less complex to maintain so I gave Hugo a try. The used theme made me switch back to Jekyll again (some styling problems that I weren’t able to fix quickly enough made me actually give Jekyll another try). Besides that I got my radio amateur license at that time that also made me buy a new domain —
oe7drt.comwas online.
I was using the slim theme PaperCSS. I wasn’t using this long because I was not able to fix the styling on the search page to not disrupt the page on mobile devices.
With the search page problems mentioned above I gave Hydejack a try. I tried this already some time before and bought the Pro version to use with Netlify as a private repository hosted on Github. I missed the slim design of the hugo website and could not resist to give that search another try…
And here we are. I finally got the search bar styling fixed and it does no longer break the layout on smaller screens. I was also able to remove the html-tags within the description so the found entries do look a lot better now.