Two Days on the Colorado River

Two calm days in the desert means two days of kayak fishing on the Colorado River. The overall conditions for fishing around here have declined so we have to travel around, burning gas, trying to find a place to fish. I try to keep this kayak fishing blog about kayak fishing with no politics, but … Read more

Simple Guide to SDR

This blog post is a simple guide to SDR, which is Software Defined Radio. There is a lot of material on the internet about SDR, so I am not going to go into a lot of detail, only how to do what is needed to receive radio transmissions. Software Defined Radio is a radio that … Read more

Good Day of Kayak Fishing

Today was a good day of kayak fishing for largemouth bass on the Colorado River. As usual for desert fishing, we were out there early. I wasn’t having much luck and was starting to worry that it might not be the best fishing day of the season. Usually by the time the sun comes up … Read more

Good Day Tough Conditions

After a change of venue, we had a good day of kayak fishing under tough conditions. We’ve been having pretty good luck at the spot we’ve been fishing, which is the closest spot, but the fish there are not very big. We headed to a spot where the fish are bigger, but there is a … Read more

Quansheng UV-K6 Rx/Tx 20 Miles

We are out here in the US desert southwest, where there are some hills, but it’s mostly flat. Since VHF/UHF radio transmission is primarily line of sight, this can work in a radio operator’s favor, especially if the target radio or repeater is in the hills. I’m set up with a Quansheng UV-K6 with F4HWN … Read more

Great Kayak Fishing

The record breaking late summer heat wave is over and we’ve had some great kayak fishing for largemouth bass on the Colorado River. It will start getting windy here soon so we don’t want to waste a single day of kayak fishing. It’s cooler, but still 75° before dawn on it’s way to about 100°, … Read more

Desert Kayak Fishing

Another pretty good day of desert kayak fishing on the Colorado River, so a quick post with some photos. A bit of a change in the weather with scattered clouds moving across the Sonora Desert. The clouds had no effect on the blazing heat and we were out early to avoid the triple digit temperature … Read more

Hot. Kayak Fishing

We are back on the water for hot kayak fishing from the hot desert southwest. When I say “hot”, I mean “hot”. The fishing has been pretty good under the circumstances, but the weather in the desert has been the big news. It is hot, very hot. I am writing this today because it is … Read more

Last Ride

It’s that time of year, time for the last mountain bike ride of the season. Not only the last ride of the season, but the last ride on our favorite trails, which are now burned. The future is looking more uncertain every day and I ain’t getting any younger, so it might be the last … Read more

Running from Fire

We’ve spent most of the month of August running from fire in the Pacific Northwest. The trails in the Cascade Mountains we’ve ridden for years are burned. We spent about a week following the outbreak of the Williams Mine fire camping by the Columbia River to see what would happen. The only thing that happened … Read more