Combined Omnidirectional & Directional Antennas

An apparatus, comprising:

• first and second duplexers each having a commonport, a high-pass filter port and a low-pass filter port;
• and
• a power divider having a common port and a plurality of attenuated ports, wherein:
• a first filter port type of said first duplexer is connected to a same filter port type of said second duplexer;
• a second filter port type of said first duplexer is connected to a common part of said power divider;
• and
• a same second filter port type of said second duplexer is connected to a first attenuated port of said power divider.

A method, comprising:

• providing a plurality of antenna arrays, each array comprising antenna elements, each array being located on a polygonal antenna body such that each array faces a different direction;
• connecting a radio-frequency (RE) network to said plurality of antenna arrays, said network comprising:
• a first duplexer configured to split a received multifrequency drive signal into a first component having a first frequency and a second component having a second frequency;
• a divider configured to split said first component into attenuated portions, and to direct one of said attenuated portions to a first of said plurality of antenna arrays;
• a second duplexer configured to combine another of said attenuated portions with said second drive signal component to form a combined drive signal component, and to direct said combined drive signal component to a second of said antenna arrays.

A method, comprising:

• providing first and second duplexers, each having a common port, a high-pass filter port and a low-pass filter port;
• providing a power divider having a common port and a plurality of attenuated ports;
• coupling a first filter port type of said first duplexer to a same filter port type of said second duplexer;
• coupling a second filter port type of said first duplexer to a common port of said power divider;
• and
• coupling a same second filter port type of said second duplexer to a first attenuated port of said power divider.