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.

In today’s roundup

• Patrizio Shares His “BCL-SWL Radio Logbook Pro” Project — The SWLing Post
  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.
• VA1ASP’s Canada Day POTA Marathon: Ten Parks in One UTC Day — QRPer
  Sarah Aspen packs ten park activations into a single UTC day for Canada Day, a masterclass in stamina, planning, and National Historic Site hunting.
• Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of CGTN (July 3, 2026) — The SWLing Post
  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.
• ANS-186 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins — AMSAT
  This week's AMSAT bulletin spotlights a KO4MA podcast appearance and Canada's student-built MarmotSat CubeSat carrying open-source amateur experiments to orbit.
• RFI is either giving or receiving. — AmateurRadio.com
  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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