Patent ID: 7424316

Claim:
A body-worn personal communications apparatus comprising: A physically-short electric antenna that is physically smaller in at least one dimension than its electrical length in that same dimension; A transceiver connected to said physically-short electric antenna; A microphone connected to said transceiver; and A casing having a width, a length mad a height, said height being less than said width and less than said length, Wherein said transceiver is disposed within said casing, Wherein said physically-short electric antenna is mounted such that said one dimension of said physically short electric antenna is aligned with said height of said casing, Wherein said physically short electric antenna is designed so as to not require manipulation by a user, Wherein said a microphone is located at an end of said physically-short electric antenna, the end of said physically-short electric antenna being the end of antenna that is furthest from said casing.