Patent ID: 8923924

Claim:
An antenna system, comprising: a common antenna aperture, comprising: a low-band antenna sub-system including at least one low-band antenna radiator element operable over a first bandwidth and one or more low-band antenna sub-system ports providing one or more low-band sub-system port signals; a high-band antenna sub-system including at least one high-band antenna radiator element operable over a second bandwidth, at least partially overlapping the first bandwidth, and one or more high-band antenna sub-system ports providing one or more high-band sub-system port signals; a signal processor electrically coupled to one or more full-band ports, and electrically coupled to each of the low-band antenna sub-system ports and high-band antenna sub-system ports, wherein the signal processor, in a receive mode, weighting and combining the one or more low-band sub-system port signals and one or more high-band sub-system port signals to provide, at the one or more full-band ports, uninterrupted continuous full-band frequency coverage whose extent covers the full frequency range of a low-band and high-band, and wherein the signal processor, in a transmit mode, separating and weighting one or more provided full-band input port signals into one or more low-band sub-system output port signals and into one or more high-band sub-system port output signals, such that a radio frequency field radiating from the low-band and high-band antenna sub-systems, combined, provides uninterrupted continuous full-band frequency coverage whose extent covers the full frequency range of the low-band and high-band.