Dominic Reich “OE7DRT”

Who Am I #

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 no permanent antenna setup at my home so I sometimes setup a portable antenna at home or I operate portable from the mountains usually. I don’t have a mobile setup in my car – but I sometimes put a small, magnetic UHF/VHF antenna onto the roof for a handheld radio.

Winlink #

I usually participate in the following Winlink nets:

WLNET-OE #

This is a german speaking net currently maintained by Patrick, OE1LHP.

To quote the groups.io description:

This group is for announcements and information concerning the Winlink Net “WLNET-OE”.
It represents some kind of Blackboard for those who want to participate and learn about the use of Winlink in not only emergency communication situations.
Amateur radio operators from in and outside of Austria are encouraged to join the sessions. To be clear: everyone is welcome, but keep in mind that the primary language will be German.

I try to participate every week.

Winlink Wednesday #

The original Winlink Wednesday is a weekly amateur radio digital net where check-ins are accomplished by using the Winlink (global email via amateur radio) system.

The primary purpose of Winlink Wednesday is to encourage the regular use of the Winlink system among amateur radio operators by providing an opportunity to expand their skills with Winlink, and to practice them on a regular basis.

Winlink Wednesday requires the operator to send the mail via RF (not telnet). I have to either set up an antenna at my home QTH or drive near the next VHF gateway to participate in this net.

I also try to participate every week, but it is sometimes hard to stay on course after work.

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 – I used other domain names before though).

Contact #

My email address is

I prefer plain text emails over html formatted emails, but any type of text is fine.

My GPG key is 9B20D3D4AD32F0F2 (ed25519) – the fingerprint is below:

4B61 5B54 381D 7F01 3647  5EDE 9B20 D3D4 AD32 F0F2

My public key is on keys.openpgp.org or on my website (2.8 KB). They should both contain user-ids.

My old key was 0xBC9D6AE1A3BE169A (rsa4096) and its fingerprint was:

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

Please use the new key (ed25519).

Server location and networking #

The website is served from Austria, Vienna – a datacenter from Anexia (Netcup).

GNU/Linux is the host system that serves the websites with Apache at (celeste.)oe7drt.com.

The older OpenBSD machine at bor.oe7drt.com was removed in March 2025.