Today on the Bands — Sunday, July 5, 2026
Happy post-Canada Day, everyone—we open with a ten-park POTA marathon that would make anyone's coffee jealous. Today's mix leans toward homebrew and listening: an open-source logbook, an illustrated shortwave report, fresh CubeSat news from AMSAT, and a candid look at RFI from both ends of the antenna.
- 01 Patrizio Shares His “BCL-SWL Radio Logbook Pro” Project
Patrizio's open-source, Python-built logging app for BCL and SWL enthusiasts shows how AI-assisted homebrew coding is reaching the listening side of the hobby.
Read at source ↗ - 02 VA1ASP’s Canada Day POTA Marathon: Ten Parks in One UTC Day
Sarah Aspen packs ten park activations into a single UTC day for Canada Day, a masterclass in stamina, planning, and National Historic Site hunting.
Read at source ↗ - 03 Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of CGTN (July 3, 2026)
Cartoonist Carlos Latuff turns a CGTN news bulletin into an illustrated listening report, a reminder that SWL logs can be art as much as documentation.
Read at source ↗ - 04 ANS-186 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
This week's AMSAT bulletin spotlights a KO4MA podcast appearance and Canada's student-built MarmotSat CubeSat carrying open-source amateur experiments to orbit.
Read at source ↗ - 05 RFI is either giving or receiving.
Having survived being the RFI victim, the author flips perspective to confess when his own Raspberry Pi becomes the noise source—required reading for the shack.
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The HamDaily digest — five minutes, the whole band.