General Electric Company

Ericsson Ge Mobile Communications Inc.

Ericsson Gmbh

Rca Licensing Corporation

Richard Culbertson

Henry A Schaefer

Steven L Sands

Ralph R Sherman

Ralph R Sherman, Jr

Paul J Klucznik

Tye C Drinkard

Arthur E Douglas

Gary R Reynolds

John Yoon

Scott Kese

The components of a portable radio are distributed over a user's body to utilize the user's body as a vehicle for carrying the radio. A patch antenna mounted across a user's shoulder improves the user's ability to receive and transmit by minimizing body shielding effects. A control unit including a talk button, display, key pad and speaker is mountable to the user's other shoulder in close proximity to a user's ear and mouth for faster and more efficient communication. The power supply includes a plurality of battery packs that are mountable about the user's waist. The radio components are thus positioned to optimize their use while efficiently and comfortably utilizing the user's body to support the radio.

Body conformal portable radio and method of constructing the same

Mobile radio

The mobile radio system includes a plurality of power amplifier modules having discrete power levels, a common transceiver module and a plurality of control head modules having different control functions. Selected ones of the power amplifiers and control heads are electrically and mechanically coupled to opposite ends of the transceiver. In one form, the control head may be remotely mounted and electrically coupled to the selected power amplifier. A common bracket is used to mount a radio having selected ones of the power amplifiers coupled to the transceiver with a selected control head. In a further embodiment, a receptacle having electrical fittings at its rear end and an opening at its opposite end receives the radio through its open end with the electrical connections being automatically coupled to one another upon final seating of the radio in the receptacle. The radio includes a handle which forms a latch for releasably securing the radio in the receptacle.

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