The vehicular minimum scattering antenna

The abstract approach of C.G. Montgomery, R.H. Dicke, and E.M. Purcell (Principles of Microwave Circuits. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1948) and W.K. Kahn and H. Kurss (IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol.AP-13, p.671-5, Sept. 1965) is used to develop a theory to define a vehicle-mounted minimum-scattering antenna. Such an antenna is minimum-scattering in the sense that the scattering perturbation of the vehicle contains no more power than the power absorbed by the antenna. Scattering due to such an antenna will conform to the antenna radiation pattern. Such antennas, defined by their radiation patterns, exist for general reciprocal vehicles.<>