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After my 80 meter HF loop antenna (SkyLoop) broke during high winds in 2025, aprox 30 meters of the loop antenna still is up and can be used as a random long wire antenna.

Today (7 Mars 2026) I reached 100 DXCC stations worked via satellite but only 89 is confirmed via LoTW as this date.

This is my measurement of the low cost filtered LNA with SAW filter for 435 MHz. It got it from AliExpress (link).

I used 20dB + 10dB (=30 dB) attenuators and calibrated my NanoVNA for 380 MHz to 510 MHz.

As you can see below the LNA performance well. Gain is aprox 23 dB (exact acoording to specification) and the bandwidth is aprox 15 MHz (a little bit more then the specification of 10 MHz BW).

After my 80 meter HF loop antenna (SkyLoop) broke during high winds in 2025, aprox 30 meters of the loop antenna still is up and can be used as a random long wire antenna.

In Januari 2026 I connected an UNUN (DIY – maybe a 1:49, not sure…) to be able to tune the wire on all HF bands with my remote auto tuner RT-100.

I also added two counterpoise wires about 8 meters long to help reduce some common mode current on the coax and add better tuning possibility.

This is the NanoVNA SWR plot before the RT-100 tuner. The overall impedance is low so it should be better to use a different UNUN winding. But that will be some other time…

Made a very simple DC switch and distribution board for all the stuff that need 13.5 V DC.

DC distribution board can be found on Aliexpress.

If the link does not work, search for ”12V 24V Car Accessories 6 Gang Toggle Switch”