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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2018
Peter Bennett Houser, Poway, CA (US);
Peter Bennett Houser, Poway, CA (US);
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Falls Church, VA (US);
Abstract
One example includes a digital communications converter. The converter includes at least one analog signal port configured to couple to at least one radiating element associated with an antenna structure coupled to an exterior surface of a vehicle. The at least one analog signal port can be configured to at least one of transmit and receive analog radio frequency (RF) signals respectively to and from the at least one radiating element. The converter also includes a digital interface configured to at least one of receive the analog RF signals or transmit the analog RF signals via the respective at least one analog signal port. The converter is also configured to convert between the analog RF signals and digital communication signals on a digital transmission medium that are at least one of transmitted to the digital communications converter via a digital communications cable and transmitted from the digital communications converter via the digital communications cable.