Great information Dan!
I have always just guess when converting a tower to a wire diameter.
The original poster seemed concerned that his tower would effect his
horizontally polarized HF beams, I have not seen that occur.
John KK9A
Dan Maguire AC6LA wrote:
Perhaps here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_equivalent_radius
As a comparison, the lower-right of this image shows both the Leeson
and Wikipedia equivalent diameter for a Rohn 25G cross section:
https://ac6la.com/adhoc/4sq1a.png
AutoEZ users, the Leeson and Wikipedia formulas are on the Variables
sheet tab for the "Bent Dipole 4-sq" *.weq model files as described in
the first section here:
https://ac6la.com/aecollection8.html
Dan, AC6LA
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