As the SWR curves above show, the wornout 1985-vintage KT34, as measured in 2019, had reasonable SWR on 10m, but its 15m and 20m low SWR points had drifted out of those bands, lower in frequency and higher in frequency, respectively. The upgrade (the final, green curve) clearly fixed 20m and 15m but 10m never gets below 1.5:1 in the shack (and never below 2:1 at the balun: raw analyzer files linked below.)
The "upgrade of only rear DE" was applied in 2019 (because I could do it from the tower and without a lift.) It helped on 20m, hurt on 15m and moved the 10m least-SWR point about 500KHz lower in frequency (maybe this 10m shift to lower frequency is a hint?).
The "m2inc upgrade" curve is with the antenna dimensioned per the m2inc "Upgrade Dimension Chart" in their upgrade kit. The 20m and 15m SWR is great, but something is clearly amiss on 10m. After corresponding with m2inc, they suggested moving 10m shorting bars, which (after many intermediate steps not presented here) resulted in the green curve when I decided to quit moving straps.
The DXEngineering square balun plugged into the round balun hole on the KT34. The resin balun shelf available from DXEngineering is what the balun is attached to (but with the shelf's aluminum angle piece discarded.) The 3D printed piece (using PETG filament) is fastened to the DXE boom-to-element clamp and holds the resin shelf. Below are the RigExpert antenna analyzer files of the final three shorting strap configurations as measured at the balun (i.e. the 150ft of coax is not involved.) The antenna at 25ft height. The final link is the data measured with the dimensional configuration that is now cranked up to 88ft. I did not record at-the-feedpoint curves prior to these last three cut-and-try's but the progression was similar. As the RDE and FDE shorting straps were shortened, the 10m SWR very slowly improved. C17 and C18 also include lengthening the RDE 20m tip to 56.5"."adjust to the dimensions ... by hooking a tape measure on the type "A" capacitor straps and pulling .... to the outer edge of the "B" and "C".On the other hand, the M2INC upgrade manual says
"measure to the inner edge"That KLM "outer edge" is 0.5" further away than the M2INC "inner edge." Therefore, when the numbers in the two charts match, the midlines of the straps in question are 0.5" closer to each other on the KLM than the M2INC.