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US 8,077,083 B2Granted
Deployable antenna system
AssigneeBAE SYSTEMS plc
InventorTrevor Martin Blake
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Abstract
A rapidly deployable HF surface wave radar phased array antenna system is provided, including a plurality of separate antenna elements that are relatively movable to desired spaced apart positions, each antenna element including a respective receiver for receiving HF radio signals, wherein, in order to determine and control properties of the radar system, each element includes a GPS receiver for determining the location of each element and for timing and frequency synchronization.
Claims7
A deployable HF surface wave radar phased array antenna system, comprising:
- a plurality of separate antenna elements which are movable relative to one another to desired spaced apart positions, each of the plurality of separate antenna elements including a respective RF processing arrangement, and
- a radio location arrangement for determining the location of each antenna element relative to other antenna elements of the system.
A deployable phased array antenna system, comprising:
- a plurality of separate antenna elements which are movable relative to one another to desired spaced apart positions, each of the plurality of antenna elements including a respective RF processing arrangement;
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- a radio location arrangement for determining the location of each of the antenna elements relative to other antenna elements of the system, wherein the antenna elements are connected together and to the master control unit in a daisy chain arrangement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.