It must be spring.

That would explain why I'm throwing things at the trees again. Sure, I'm actually trying to aim tethered projectiles over trees but these shots are turning out to be the exception rather than the rule. This evening, I left work a little early to see if I could place a line in a tall pine. This tree stands with a cluster of others at the south edge of my backyard and makes a nice vertex for a new, 80-meter, horizontal loop antenna that I want to raise. There's a relatively short, optimal period in the spring -- between when it gets warm enough to work outside but not so warm that the ground turns muddy or the leaves sprout and obstruct my aim -- for stringing wire antennas in my yard. That would be now.

Antennas. Antennas with better gain. Antennas for the longer bands...

Hmm... I know can do better than that G5RV I put up in the backyard last year.