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Ultra-wideband, zero visual signature RF vest antenna for man-portable radios
Lebaric, J.E. Adler, R.W. Limbert, M.E.
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Naval Postgraduate Sch., Monterey, CA;

This paper appears in: Military Communications Conference, 2001. MILCOM 2001. Communications for Network-Centric Operations: Creating the Information Force. IEEE
Publication Date: 2001
Volume: 2, On page(s): 1291- 1294 vol.2
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ISBN: 0-7803-7225-5
INSPEC Accession Number: 7373560
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/MILCOM.2001.986063
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06

Abstract
This paper presents the recent research of the COMbat Wear INtegration (COMWIN) RF vest antenna initially presented at MILCOM2000. This version of the ultra-wideband VHF/UHF (30 MHz to 500 MHz) vest antenna, designated as MK-III, is integrated into the existing dismounted marine/soldier kevlar flak vest and has no visual signature. This antenna is one of the three COMWIN antennas developed at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) for joint tactical radio system applications. The improved MK-III RF vest was designed using Ansoft's high frequency structure simulator (HFSS) software. This design accounts for the operator wearing the flak jacket, the MOLLE pack system and the radio (radio dimensions based on SlNCGARS man-portable radio). Several prototypes have been built at NPS and exhibit encouraging agreement with computer simulations.

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