Development of Fight Load Carrier VHF Body-Borne Antenna System

摘要

The purpose of this report is to detail the results of a program to develop the flexible conductive textiles for a wearable VHF antenna. The antenna is an electrically small loop that uses electronic circuits distributed throughout its length to achieve better transmitter efficiency. The program also developed methods of attaching and sealing the connections between the textile conductive traces that are used to form the loop antenna and are also used to bring DC bias to the electronic circuit modules. The flexible conductive textile also incorporated fiber optic cable to permit control of the distributed set of electronic modules.