| 摘要 |
<p num="1"><br/><br/><br/>This invention relates to reducing the complexity and cost of antenna arrays <br/>and is more specifically concerned with <br/>reducing the complexity of an antenna apparatus. It provides an antenna array <br/>(62) made up of a vertical stack of horizontal linear <br/>structures (74) each having several groups of neighbouring array antenna <br/>elements, the groups (74) having variable numbers of the <br/>antenna elements each connected to a transmit/receive module (66) . The <br/>advantage of this configuration is that less <br/>communication modules (66) , such as transmit/receive modules, are required to <br/>operate the antenna array (62) , reducing the weight, power <br/>consumption and cost of an antenna apparatus incorporating such an antenna <br/>array (62) without significantly limiting the capability <br/>and/or performance of a system compared to a conventional solution.<br/><br/><br/><br/><img he="0" wi="0" file="" alt="" img-content="undefined" img-format="jpg" inline="yes" orientation="portrait" /><br/>
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