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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2015
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Kenneth W. Brown, Yucaipa, CA (US);
Michael J. Sotelo, Chino, CA (US);
April R. Sanders, Corona, CA (US);
RAYTHEON COMPANY, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A communications system having two terminals, each including two antennas, the communications system using spatial multiplexing. One antenna of a first terminal transmits a tracking tone along with a data signal. Two antennas in a second terminal receive the tracking tone. The signals from the two antennas are processed by a feed circuit. The feed circuit includes a variable delay circuit and a combiner that forms, at a first difference output, a linear combination, of a signal from the first antenna and a signal from the second antenna, in which the tracking tone is canceled. The variable delay circuit is actively adjusted to maintain this cancellation.