Abstract: An antenna includes a disk of dielectric material with a number of radiator elements and signal processing circuits. The radiator elements are arranged mirror-symmetrically with respect to two perpendicular axis and are divided into a number of sectors. When the antenna is a receiver a first part of the signal processing circuits is arranged in a first layer of the disk for combining signals emitted by the elements of any sector while a. A second part of the signal processing circuits is arranged in a second layer of the disk for combining signals coming from sectors similarly located with respect to the axes to groups of signals, each group of signals having at least one signal of generated sum signals and difference signals with respect to the two axes. A third and last part of the signal processing circuits is arranged in a third layer of the disk for combining in the groups of signals included sum signals and difference signals and for emitting the combined signals to the output terminals of the antenna.

Abstract: A portable multiband H.F. antenna that has minimum ground area requirements and that is capable of transmitting electromagnetic wave radiation with horizontal polarization, azimuth plane omnidirectional patterns and a null in the vertical beam pattern is realized by means of an easily erectable tower type radiator. The tower structure has adjacent conductive leg members that define an elongated antenna slot aperture the total length of which is resonant to the lowest operating frequency band. A microwave transmission line resides along one side of the slot and the slot aperture is fed by shorting the transmission line to the oposite side of the slot. Operation at higher frequency bands is achieved by shorting out sections of the slot aperture on both sides of the feed. An array of radiating slot apertures can be provided by shorting the full slot aperture into sections and feeding each slot section separately.

Abstract: A miniature, flush mounted, microwave dual band antenna which radiates omirectional microwave signals from a single flush mounted cylindrical array at frequency bands separated by 1.5 octaves. The antenna has a Y-shaped cavity with the leg of the Y being taken up by a probe and surrounding dielectric block. The cavity resonates the lower frequency band energy primarily in the open non-dielectric spaces and resonates the higher frequency band energy primarily in the dielectric space.

Abstract: A slotted waveguide radiator for an antenna array is arranged to receive microwave energy inputs at either end for producing separate radiated beams and has loading slots having predetermined center-to-center spacings in the longitudinal dimension to provide a predetermined squint angle for each radiated beam which is related to the direction in which energy is fed to the waveguide. The radiator includes means for providing a linear phase shift progression in the signal components radiated from the slots from one end of the waveguide to the other to thereby provide an angular tilt to each radiated beam which is independent of the direction in which energy is fed to the waveguide.

Abstract: A flat radar antenna comprises a generally circular array of juxtaposed radiators constituted by slotted waveguides, the array being divided into four quadrants each composed of a multiplicity of groups of radiators. The radiator groups of the entire array are connected to a high-frequency transceiver via parallel paths of identical electrical length, consituted in one embodiment by cascaded couplers of magic-T type, whereby the bandwidth of the antenna equals that of each group so as to facilitate frequency scanning.

Abstract: A frequency scan antenna utilizing either parallel or series beam spoiling for increasing the radar beam width and increasing the data rate is disclosed. As a radar beam is scanned from the horizon to a maximum altitude or angle above the horizon, the beam width is broadened or spoiled, thereby allowing a higher data rate collection and storage. A first embodiment according to the present invention utilizes coaxial cables of incrementally varying lengths connecting the delay line with an array of parallel line source radiators. The cables having the minimum length are connected at the extreme radiators while the maximum length cables are connected at the center line source radiators. The wavefront is bowed and a greater sector in space may be scanned. A second embodiment of the present invention utilizes a delay line with unequal tap spacings which is series coupled to the array of line source radiators.

Abstract: A resonant radiation assembly for RF transmission lines is provided wherein the coupling level between the assembly and the transmission line may be readily adjusted at any point along the longitudinal axis of the line. The outer conductor of a coaxial transmission line is partially milled to provide radiation slots along the line, and the conductor is sheathed in a polyethylene cable jacket. A section of dielectric tubing is longitudinally gapped. Either plural conductive strips in combination with a transversely oriented radiation loop, or a single conductive strip is bonded to the outer surface of the tubing opposite the gap. The tubing is placed over the jacket and translated along the line to the desired operating location. The RF coupling level may be adjusted by rotating the tubing about the transmission line to vary the degree of coincidence between the conductive strip and the radiation slots.

Abstract: A microwave radiator in the form of a parallel plate transmission system with an array of radiating slots in one plate is used to transmit scanning planar radio beams. The radiating structure is shaped to form part or the whole of a cylindroid. The array of slots may be on the convex or concave side of the radiator, which is preferably curved in the plane of the axis of the beam. Scanning through 360.degree. is possible with a full cylindroid radiator having the array of slots extending over all its convex surface.

Abstract: A line source antenna adapted for a light weight, compact phased array ra and consisting of a plurality of series fed radiating slots periodically located in the narrow side wall of a length of waveguide together with non-reciprocal latching ferrite phase shifters including dielectric loading sections and matching transformer sections on either side of phase shifters located between adjacent slot pairs.

Abstract: A broadband omnidirectional slot antenna suitable for transmission of television signals employing a wide slot and a wide, long strap between a feed point and the slot edge.

Abstract: An improved IFF antenna arrangement is shown to comprise two linear arrays, each one of the arrays being made up of a plurality of similar cavity-backed radiating slots fed by a stripline feed. The impedance of each radiating slot is matched, at two different operating frequencies, to the impedance of a combination of the impedances of the corresponding cavity and stripline feed.

Abstract: A substantially two-dimensional integrated phase shifter and radiator module wherein a plurality of phase shifting elements are deposited in microstrip configuration on one side of a common substrate, and at least one radiating element is constructed from ground plane metallization on the other side of the substrate. Electrical coupling between the output of the phase shifter and the radiator is accomplished by means of a pin interconnect which extends vertically through the substrate. The phase shifting elements are serially connected and positioned in predetermined patterns on the substrate so as to maximize circuit density, without any adverse electrical interaction with the radiator. Additionally, the serially connected phase shifting elements are each connected to individually receive a separate DC control voltage in order that varying degrees of phase shift may be introduced into microwave signals which are coaxially fed into the input terminal of the phase shifting circuitry.

Abstract: An isotropic antenna array formed by a plurality of adjoining stripline eents each having a two bit diode switched parallel feed path. Phase matching wavefronts emitted by groups of successively switched, adjacent antenna elements causes the antenna array to scan through space.

Abstract: A camouflaged VHF antenna for military vehicles. A false roof is fitted to he roof of the vehicle's metal shelter. The false roof includes a U-shaped slot which is parallel to the left and right edges and the rear edge of the vehicle roof. The slot is fed at the center of the U and tuning circuits are connected to the left and right edges of the slot.

Abstract: This invention relates to an electronically scanned array antenna with independent sum and difference excitations. The coupling coefficients of the feeding directional couplers are defined from a predetermined relation between the sum and difference excitations of each radiating source so that the maximum of the sum pattern and the nil of the difference pattern coincide whatever the scanning angle.

Abstract: An integral element/phase shifter for use in a phase scanned array. A non-resonant waveguide or stripline type transmission line, series force feeds the elements of an array. In the embodiments shown, four RF diodes are arranged in connection within the slots of a symmetrical slot pattern in the outer conductive wall of the transmission line to vary the coupling therefrom through the slots to the aperture of each individual antenna element. Each diode thus controls the contribution of energy from each of the slots (at a corresponding phase) to the individual element aperture and therefore determines the net phase of the said aperture. Three species of the invention are shown, the first and second involving RF diodes in the slots of waveguide broad and narrow walls respectively, and the third having slots through the shield plane of a stripline. The invention facilitates array phase scanning without the need for separate, and relatively more expensive, discrete phase shifters for each antenna element.

Abstract: The antenna array preferably consists of a plurality of slotted wave guide microwave signal radiating elements positioned to directly radiate separate beams of microwave energy at different azimuth angles to a common horizontally aligned cylinder sector reflector, the radiating elements being operable to primarily determine the direction and shape of the resultant reflected beams in azimuth and the reflector being operable to primarily determine the elevation patterns of the resultant reflected beams.