hey Bill, well my antenna is not an equi-lateral tri-angle with all 3 sides
being equal. The right angle corner is at the top of the tower with the
short leg going down to the house and the other longer leg out in the
field.... the longest side is the hypotenuse which is next to the ground..
about 8 ft!. Originally I cut it to the loop formula which was about 546 ft
total length...I had to pull it out horizontally to get it to fit which
tilted it about 20 degrees from the vertical. This resonated down around
1.2 KHZ so I shortened it considerably to bring the resonate point back up
to 1.84. The swr showed about 4:1 at this point so I just inserted a 4:1
balun at the corner nearest the house and voila... pretty flat from 1.8 to
1.9 and it ran circles around the inverted V at 110 ft ! The first 4:1 balun
came off an old KLM beam and went up in smoke so I had WX0B make me a heavy
duty one and no problems. I have been using this ever since! I have no idea
what this would model out... I simply was playing around and hit on this
combo! Hope this helps! Cort K4WI
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