Building Ham Radio Tools With AI Assistance — The -Blick Toolbox

2026-03-12 #Blog | #HamRadio | #AI | #Tools

After BandBlick kicked things off, the tool ecosystem on oeradio.at grew. The naming convention “-Blick” (German for “view/glance”) started with BandBlick and then became a brand by accident. By the fifth tool I was committed.

The -Blick family

BandBlick — IARU Region 1 band plan viewer. The one that started it all.
StrahlBlick — RF safety distance calculator per ICNIRP limits. Useful before you transmit with high power and want to know if your neighbours should be worried.
AkkuBlick — Battery capacity planner for portable/SOTA operation. Calculates how long your battery lasts given your rig’s TX/RX duty cycle.
KabelBlick — Coax cable loss calculator. Because every dB counts, especially the ones you lose before the signal reaches the antenna.
RelaisBlick — Interactive map of all Austrian amateur radio repeaters. Data courtesy of ÖVSV UKW Referat and OE8VIK Michi.
AntennenBlick — Antenna calculator for dipole, ground plane and more.

How they were built

All of these were built AI-assisted, primarily with Claude. I’m a .NET/enterprise architect by trade. Writing vanilla JS UIs is not my natural habitat. AI assistance made it possible to ship these fast without fighting CSS for 3 days.

Beyond the -Blick tools

The platform also runs OpenWebRX (SDR receiver), OpenHamClock, Wavelog (logbook), and a propagation/DX dashboard. It’s growing into a full ham radio workbench — mostly because every time I think “wouldn’t it be nice if…” I end up building it instead of going on the air.

GitHub repos