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BROADBAND TACTICAL ANTENNAPakistan Army has purchased the Harris and M3TR radio sets for military purposes tofulfill the security and ruggedness demands of the battle field. Rhode & Schwarz tacticalradio M3TR has been in use in Pakistan Army for quite some time now. It is particularlyused for tactical, ground to air and long range communication. The type of antennaincorporated by R&S is monopole. The M3TR software defined radio family is a newgeneration of high-performance digital radios. It represents a revolutionary change, bothtechnically and economically, in the tactical communications sector. The heart of thenew integrated communications system is the light-weight MR300xH/U transceiver (1.5MHz to 108 MHz or 25 MHz to 512 MHz), which offers solutions for all aspects oftactical communications as well as uniform and reduced inter service logistics.Currently R&S are using four different antennas with the radio set M3TR. In field areawhere the situation is very fluid requires shifting from one frequency band to another tocater for ground to ground and ground to air communication. This requires frequentchanging of antennas, due to lack of a single broadband antenna.So, we endeavor to design a single broadband tactical antenna which will operate from30 MHz to 512 MHz to cover the complete range of frequencies of M3TR transceiver.Hence a locally manufactured antenna at a low cost will be available for complete bandof M3TR, which will save resources and minimize dependency on R&S (Germany).Syndicate Members: M Danial ShafiImran KhaliqTariq NazirAvaiz Khan JadoonSupervisor:Dr. Farooq Ahmed Bhatti33