Patent ID: 6867740

Claim:
A portable directional antenna comprising: a) a driven element encasement; b) a feed line encasement having an open end, and being substantially perpendicularly attached to an intermediate location on the driven element encasement at an intermediate location on the feed line encasement; c) a feed line having a first end and a second end; d)a driven element, at an intermediate location on the driven element conductively attached to the reed line proximate the first end of the feed line; e) the driven element being located within the driven element encasement and at least a portion of the feed line being located within the feed line encasement with the second end of the feed line accessible via the open end of the feed line encasement; f) a reflector element encasement substantially perpendicularly attached at an intermediate location on the reflector element encasement to the feed line encasement at a location along the length of the feed line encasement closer to the open end of the feed line encasement than the location where the driven element encasement is attached to the feed line encasement; g) a reflector element located within the reflector element encasement; h) a director element encasement substantially perpendicularly attached at an intermediate location on the director element encasement to the feed line encasement at a location along the length of the feed line encasement further from the open end of the feed line encasement than the location where the driven element encasement is attached to the feed line encasement, and i) a director element located within the director element encasement; wherein, the encasements are made from a flexible and durable fabric-like material; the elements are flexible, durable and conductive; and the longitudinal axis of each element is substantially parallel with the longitudinal axis of the encasement within which the element is located.