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Pioneer Southwest has prepared PowerPoint slides to supplement their comments today. These slides can be accessed over the internet at www.pioneersouthwest.com. Again, the internet site to access the slides related to today's call is www.pioneersouthwest.com. At the website, select Investors, then select Investor Presentations. This call is being recorded.
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Thanks, Frank. Good morning. Starting on a highlight, on slide number 3, we had fourth quarter adjusted income of $26 million or $0.77 per unit. But it does exclude some unrealized mark-to-market derivative losses of $33 million or $0.98 per unit. Fourth-quarter production averaged about 7,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, down about 6% versus the third quarter, primarily due to the fact that most of our wells were placed on production towards the latter part of the fourth quarter. We also had some weather-related downtime, including a lighting strike at a large tank battery. If it weren't for these items, production would have been similar to the third quarter without these items. Rich will talk about the guidance coming up in his presentation.
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Thanks, Scott. I will start on slide 5. As Scott mentioned, we had a net loss of $7 million or $0.21 per common unit; that did include derivative losses associated with the increase in futures oil prices. And so adjusted for that item, income was $26 million or $0.77 per common unit.
At the bottom of the page there, you can see our Q4 guidance we put out in November and our results as Scott talked about production. If you look at the other items, all within guidance range. DD&A is towards the upper end of guidance, mainly because we continue to drill proved and developed locations. So adding that basis, everything else is consistent with what we forecast.
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HONOLULU — Peyton Manning is making his ninth consecutive Pro Bowl appearance and John Harbaugh is his ninth different Pro Bowl coach.
Manning has had a tough year with coaches. His alma mater, the University of Tennessee, fired his coach, Phillip Fulmer. His Indianapolis Colts lost Tony Dungy to retirement. And one of Manning's favorite Pro Bowl coaches, Mike Shanahan, was fired by the Broncos.
Manning was going on about how he believes Josh McDaniels will be good for Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler when he paused to reflect on the 2006 Pro Bowl, when Shanahan coached the AFC by virtue of losing the conference championship game.
"I would be hard-pressed to find a better offensive mind that Mike Shanahan," Manning said. "I had him over here, too, and that was a special week. They fired Phil Fulmer in Tennessee and, you know, just be careful. The grass isn't always greener on the other side. Now Coach Dungy retired. But I think there's a lot of good football coaches out there, and I think Mike Shanahan is one of the best of them."
Put it on the bill.
Don't tell the Broncos players there's not incentive to win the Pro Bowl.
Each winning player will be paid $40,000. Each losing player will get $22,500. For Cutler, Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall and center Casey Wiegmann, all of whom will be making their first Pro Bowl appearances Sunday at Aloha Stadium, the extra $17,500 would help defray the costs of their invited guests.
Cutler is opening up his checkbook to bring left tackle Ryan Clady, receiver Eddie Royal and tight end Tony Scheffler to the island. Cutler also brought over his foundation head, Marty Garafalo, and Broncos media relations assistant Patrick Smyth.
Marshall brought along his mom, dad, 90-year-old grandmother Yuki Nogami, his girlfriend, his girlfriend's mom, Broncos media relations assistant Dave Gaylinn and a couple of friends.
Wiegmann is bringing his wife, son, mom, dad, brother, sister, sister's husband and sister's four kids, his wife's mom and stepdad.
"Those are the people who helped get you to where you are and helped mold you into the type of person that you are," Marshall said. "In a way, this is giving back to them."
Playing time.
Cutler will have considerable influence on the Pro Bowl's outcome. Harbaugh said Manning would start and play as much as he wants, which is usually one or two drives into the second quarter. Cutler will play much of the second and third quarters and could finish the game after veteran Kerry Collins gets a couple of series.
"Cutler will get most of the reps," Harbaugh said. "He's young, and he'll compete."
Mike Klis, The Denver Post


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|Jul 5, 1966
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|Malech Robert G
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|Dorne And Margolin Inc
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|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (23), Classifications (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
July 5, 1966 R. G. MALECH 3,259,902
' ANTENNA WITH ELECTRICALLY VARIABLE REFLECTOR APPARENT REFLECTING IHIHII I INVENTOR. ROBERT G. MALECH BY Ea/z 9 ova 2% ATTORNEYS July 5, 1966 R. G. MALECH ANTENNA WITH ELECTRICALLY VARIABLE REFLECTOR 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed Oct. 4, 1961 RECEIVER 3 FIG. 5 I
lOlu lO2o I030 |o4o a PROGRAMMER s RECEIVER -87 INPUT COMMANDS INVENTOR ROBERT Gv MALECH TTORNEYS United States Patent York Filed Oct. 4, 1961, Ser. No. 143,276 3 Claims. (Cl. 343-753) The present invention relates to radio frequency antennas and particularly such antennas comprising a central feed element and a reflector assembly having a relatively large number of elemental antennas each with an associated phase shifter and/or attenuator and arranged to cause an incoming electromagnetic wave front to have respective portions thereof altered in phase or amplitude or both and to be reflected back to the feed element where it may be effectively collected for utilization in a radio receiver, radar receiver or the like. In a particularly advantageous form, the reflector assembly is electn'cally controllable to provide desired alterations in the electromagnetic wave front and hence in the antenna characteristics.
Large-aperture antennas may be classified into two categories, reflectors or arrays; each of these two categories possesses distinct'advautages and disadvantages with respect to the other. Some characteristics of reflectors as compared to arrays are summarized below.
Reflectors characteristically have a shaped surface, often parabolic. Arrays may be formed with either a shaped surface or a planar surface and often are provided with a planar surface for simplicity of construction.
Reflectors are characteristically less expensive than the much more expensive antenna arrays which generally require a complex multiple-branched feed system.
Reflectors generally provide only a single beam whereas arrays may readily be designed to provide multiple beams. Conventional reflectors may be scanned only by mechanical means whereas arrays may be, and often are, electrically scanning.
The conventional reflector has no side lobe or beam shape control while arrays may be designed with side lobe and beam shape control.
In a reflector antenna the receiver is connected solely to the feed element whereas an array can be provided with numerous receivers up to a limit of one receiver per element.
Reflectors are well suited for very large apertures while arrays tend to have excessive line losses as the aperture size is increased.
The invention disclosed herein will be seen to combine in one system advantages described above and other advantages which were previously found in only one or the other of the two categories of antennas discussd.
Apparatus according to the invention is characterized by the following mode of operation; energy (a signal) is received by each of the many elements in an array, processed through phase and/or amplitude control, reflected back by a shorting plate, retransmitted through elemental antennas, and collected by a signal (or a few) secondary antenna.
In addition to providing the previously described features and advantages it is an object of the present invention to provide an antenna including a reflector which is capable of causing a predetermined change in the wave front of an electromagnetic wave reflected by it by means of individually determinable changes of phase or amplitude imparted to respective portions of the wave front by respective elemental reflector units.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an antenna of the foregoing type wherein the wave front shape is subject to being rapidly varied by virtue of electrical control of the reflector units.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide an antenna of the foregoing type which also includes a multiple-branched feed system selectively connectable to the elemental reflector units thus forming an antenna array, and a further different mode of operation of the system.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide an antenna of the foregoing type wherein the reflector comprises a rectangular array composed of numerous rectangular waveguide horn antennas each having associated therewith a phase controller and attenuation controller together with a short circuiting element to cause reflection of any signal received by a waveguide horn so that it will be reflected through the waveguide to be retransmitted with predetermined phase and amplitude relation for each portion thereof.
Other objects and advantages will be apparent from a consideration of the following description in conjunction with the appended drawings in which:
FIGURE 1 is a fragmentary top view, partially schematic in form, of an antenna system according to the present invention;
FIGURE 2 is a front elevational view, also partially schematic, of the apparatus of FIGURE 1;
FIGURE 3 is an enlarged detailed view of the apparatus of FIGURES 1 and 2 taken along the line 33 in FIGURE 2;
FIGURE 4 is a three-dimensional representation of the apparent reflecting surface provided in one embodiment of the present invention and presented to aid in the explanation of the operation of apparatus according to the invention; and
FIGURE 5 is a fragmentary top view partially schematic in form, of an alternative form of apparatus according to the invention.
Referring now to the drawings and particularly to FIGURES 1 and 2, a rectangular array of elemental reflector units 1a-50a through 1y-50y is arranged to form a screen or reflector 61. Thus in the particular embodiment illustrated the total reflector surface comprises 25 columns and 50 rows of elemental reflector units. Obviously, the number and arrangement of the elemental reflectors can be varied to suit each particular case.
A feed element 62 is provided to feed electromagnetic energy to or collect electromagnetic energy from the reflector 61. The feed element is preferably placed on a perpendicular from the center of the reflector 61 and a distance L in front of the reflector array 61 such that the longest side of the array D is from two to four times L. The distance L may be selected in accordance with customary antenna design principles and will generally be such that the extremals of the reflector array 61 will intersect the radiation pattern of the feed element 62 at approximately the 10 db points.
It should be pointed out that antennas according to the present invention are reciprocal devices. That is, the antenna system operates in substantially the same manner for transmission and reception. For the sake of clarity the emphasis will be placed on the operation of the antenna when used as a receiver.
As seen in FIGURE 1 for example, each elemental reflector unit comprises a rectangular horn antenna 65' mounted at the end of a rectangular waveguide section 64. Since all of the elemental reflector units are effectively of similar construction, the reference numbers for the component parts of the elemental reflector units are shown only for unit 1a, it being understood that other elemental reflector units will comprise similar components.
In the particular embodiment illustrated, the horn antennas 65 are arranged in a common plane perpendicular to the axis of the feed element 62. This is a dearranged in any configuration desired without affecting the operation of the system.
The rectangular waveguide 64 feeds into a phase control element 66, which may be one of any of many known types. of mechanically or electrically adjustable phase controllers (for example Rantec Phase Shifter Model PX-101).
Another rectangular waveguide 68 is connected to the other end of phase controller 66 to provide a transmission path from phase controller 66 to a variable attenuator 69. Numerous such attenuators are available, one suitable form being Rantec Amplitude Modulator Model MX-l02. Phase controller 66 and variable attenuator 69 are preferably electrically controllable and electrical leads 67 and 71 respectively are provided for thecontrol of phase controller 66 and variable attenuator 69. While the fullest advantage of the apparatus according to .the present invention is achieved by providing electrically controllable phase control and attenuation, it'is obvious that where this degree of flexibility is not required predetermined constant phase shift or attenuation elements can be utilized. It should also be appreciated that in some cases no control of attenuation or in fact no attenuationat all may be desired in which latter case the attenuators 69 may be dispensed with altogether.
The variable attenuators 69 are terminated by a short circuit 72 which may comprise any suitable means for short-circuiting the transmission path and in a typical case may be a shorting bar across the waveguide transmission line.
From the explanation of the apparatus thus far presented, it will be seen that a wave front of electromagnetic radiation which impinges upon the array of elemental reflector units is effectively broken down into a number of separate signals received by the horn antenna 65 of each elemental reflector unit.
Each such signal is transmitted through phase controller 66 and attenuator 69 and is reflected to retraverse these elements again and be transmitted from the rectangular horn antenna elements 65. In this process the reradiated wave front may be shaped in virtually any desired fashion by appropriate control of the phase control element 66 and attenuators 69., For example, the same effective shaping of the Wave frontcould be accomplished as would be accomplished by a paraboloidal reflector if desired. The received wave front is reflected into the feed element 62 from which it is transmitted to a receiver 63.
A programmer 73 is provided to transmit the appropriate control signals to the respective phase controllers 66 and attenuators 69. The programmer will thus be electrical apparatus of conventional design adapted to transmit a plurality of signals over separate transmission paths each having a respective predetermined value and to perform this function in response to one or more input commands.
While design of suitable physical arrangements of the elements of FIGURES 1 and 2 would present no difliculty to one of skill in the art, a particularly compact and eflicient arrangement is shown in FIGURE 3. It will be noted in FIGURE 3 that the phase controllers 66 and variable attenuator '69 are placed in a staggered arrangement so that they may be more compactly arranged and access thereto may be more convenient. The structure is otherwise as schematically illustrated in FIGURE 1 and similar components of the elemental reflector units are given corresponding numbers in FIGURE 3.
The structural support for the elementalreflector units may be provided by sheets of rigid material 74, 75 and 76 provided with openings to accommodate rectangular waveguide sections such as '64. As an example, fibreglass reinforced sheets of resinous or plastic material would'be suitable for supports 74 and 75. Support 76 may be formed in whole or in part by electrically resistive microwave absorbing material in order that all reflections other than the desired reflected signals out of. horn antennas 65 will be eliminated. Alternatively the sheet 76 may be transparent to electromagnetic radiation of the wavelength involved but desirably it should be non-refiec tive where there is any possibility of radiation passing between horns 65 and reflecting from sheet 76. Of course, in some cases the horns may be arranged so close together that they will effectively intercept all radiation impinging thereon.
As previously explained the horn antennas 65 could be arranged in other than a planar configuration and in.
special cases a paraboloidal or spherical configuration might have advantages. It will be apparent, however, that the structural simplicity of the planar arrangement illustrated in FIGURE 3 will be highly desirable in many cases. For example, such anarrangement could be placed on the flat roof of a large building with a minimum of structural support required.
Although the operation of the antenna system has'not.
as yet been rigorously and analytically explained, it can be appreciated from the explanation thus far presented that an antenna is provided wherein the effective shape of the reflector can be controlled within wide limi-tsg'by transmission of appropriate signals to a large number of elemental reflector units. The function of providing the appropriate signals may be carried out by a programmer 73 which need only be instructed by an input command as to which of several effective shapes are desired to provide a particular beam pattern or wave front shape. a
As an example, suppose the phase controllers are set to produce a parabolic phase front. The system would then operate in a manner comparable to a parabolic reflector and feed element. It may be observed that the antenna according to the present invention has numerous advantages, however, over a fixed-reflector parabolic antenna.
First, the phase shifters can be set to within several electrical degrees of phase shift so that in the event of inaccuracies in the construction of a large array or distortions due to weight or the like, correction of the effective shape may be made electrically. As a result the need for close tolerance control in the construction of a large antenna may be eliminated.
Second, additional control is provided by the variable attenuators which can be set to minimize the beam width side lobe product, or to produce any other desired beam configuration.
Third, the amplitude and phase fronts can be set to produce the desired beam shape in each plane independent of the other.
Fourth, where used for example to track a moving target by radar, the phase front can be changed from parabolic (which focuses an infinite point at the feed and is useful for search mode ofoperation) to an elliptical front (which will focus the target, which is closer than an infinite point, at the feed and is useful for a track mode of operation).
Finally, since electronic phase controllers and attenuators can be rapidly varied, the phase front and beam shape can be continuously, rapidly, and accurately controlled to produce optimum system performance. inde pendent of range, position of target, size of target, velocity, and numbers of targets, where the antenna is used in a radar application.
As previously suggested, antennas according to the present invention are useful generally for systems requiring a shaped beam. It should also be pointed out that the invention has particular utility for large fixed antennas built for radio astronomy or other purposes by virtue of the fact that the electrical surface can be changed at will whereas in the conventional antenna the shape, once determined is thereafter invariable. Thus such an antenna made according to the present invention could he eifectively varied from parabolic to spherical or could in fact be controlled to provide two or more paraboloids or spheres for special purposes. There is the further advantage that the feed element may be moved off the physical axis of the reflector and the reflector may be electrically tilted to maintain an effective axial position relation for the feed element. It may thus be desirable to render the feed element movable as indicated by the arrows in FIGURE 2.
Still further uses for the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from the following more analytical description of the operation of the ap paratus which will also be of aid in indicating variations in the design. While the theoretical analysis presented is believed correct, the operability of the invention is not dependent on the accuracy of the analysis and the scope of the invention is not to be construed to be limited thereby.
To describe the theory of operation in detail, it is desirable to refer to specific components. The components that are described are not new and are not necessarily included as part of the invention. The invention is capable of use over the whole microwave spectrum, but a specific frequency is chosen for clarity in the example. Finally, the shape of the array and number of elements in the array can vary Within the scope of the invention. Again, however, for clarity a fiat rectangular array has been chosen for the example.
The programmer 73 represents or requires no novel design, but merely requires apparatus of known type which transmits a plurality of signals of different values over respectively different paths in response to a selectable command signal. Furthermore, the invention does not require the use of a programmer, but rather, fixed phase shifters (e.g. lengths of transmission line) and fixed attenuators could be used, where appropriate to achieve the desired result. However, making the phase shifters and amplitude attenuators variable greatly increases the utility of the apparatus by allowing for rapid beam shaping, beam scanning and variable (say elliptical) phase front range tracking.
This explanation will consider an apparatus designed to have the same effect on a vertically polarized horn as a cylindrical parabola, i.e. the wave front appears to be a plane wave.
Consider energy entering the horn at some oblique angle. For a given source intensity,.the field intensity at the horn will vary depending on the angle of incidence to the horn. Consider a ray on the axis of the horn.
Consider the field intensity on the normal to the center of the array, at the plane of the array to be:
E =the magnitude of the electric field intensity at the centerline of the array.
E =is constant depending on the size of the feed antenna and the dielectric constant of free space.
k=the distance from'the centerline of the array to the end.
fl=phase constant of propagation.
E =magnitude of the electric field intensity, at any point on the aperture, due to the feed antenna.
E the electric field intensity E after the waveguide and phase shifter have operated on it. =arbitrary constant.
The field intensity at the aperture of any horn is:
where f(e) depends on the field pattern of the individual horn at the frequency in question and on the space attenuation the field undergoes. (The array is in the far field of the feed horn.)
The field that enters the horn is shifted in phase by the phase shifter in each direction. The intensity of the field as it leaves the horn is:
Where 5(3 is the total phase shift introduced by the waveguide and phase shifter. For an equiphase field distribution across the aperture of the array the following condition must be imposed on (y).
This can be accomplished by adjusting the variable phase shifter in each waveguide.
Considering the field pattern of each horn to be the cos 0 function in the plane of interest (H plane), since the far field magnitude decreases as l/ r the magnitude of the field leaving the horn can now be written as E g Cos 0 Since P is an arbitrary constant it can be set equal to zero, so I 2 1/2 ry =-s(y The spacing between waveguides is d, hence k equals 25d. The phase shift required in a horn in column h is From the calibration curve of a typical phase shifter Rantec Model PX-lOl the current needed through the 200 ohm. control coil for a given phase shift is half of that specified by the above formula since the wave passes through the device twice, and the power absorbed by this phase shifter can be readily calculated.
For example, at 8.85 go. the total power delivered to all the phase shifters is 490 watts.
The aperture distribution of the apparatus illustrated is almost a complete cosine squared function.- This type of aperture function gives a larger beamwidth than if the intensity were a constant. For this array the cosine squared function yields a half power beamwidth of 0.03 radian While that of the constant function is 0.018 radian. The first side lobe intensity for the cosine squared function is 32 db down while that of the constant function is 13.2 db below the peak of the main beam. To make the aperture field function a constant, requires that the attenuators 66 be adjusted so that they operate on the incoming wave with a secant squared function. (Secant 0 attenuation in each direction.) The resultant aperture field intensity function would then be rendered constant.
The largest value 6 takes on in this example is Arctan 2=63.5 and cos 63.5 equals 0.2. Therefore this will be the relative level to which the field'magnitude across the rest of the aperture will be attenuated. The expression for the field intensity will now be:
E ,=%E (Cos (0.2 See 0) .4 =OTEZ where 0.2 sec. 0 is the attenuator function. To determine the D.C. power absorbed by all the attenuators, an approach similar to that used for the phase shifting devices can be employed.
The technique of flattening the field intensity across the aperture decreases the beam Width by a factor of 1.65 to 1.
An alternative to attenuating the middle of cosine squared aperture function would be to amplify the ends of the function with bilaterial amplifiers in place of the attenuators. Using the attenuators, the RF power absorbed in the aperture (in this example) is 9.7 db lower than it would be if the cosine squared distribution was used; this loss would be effectively avoided by the use of amplifiers as proposed above.
Antenna apparatus according to the invention is adapted to radar systems. In a typical case there would be attached to the feed antenna a standard radar transmitterreceiver and range tracker monitored by a computer to program the antenna apparatus to form any desired effective reflecting surface by controlling the phase shifters 66 and attenuators 69. As an example of one useful program, for general tracking the reflecting surface would be parabolic (i.e. an ellipse with the second focus at infinity). Once an object of interest is detected its position is determined by the range tracker and the computer reprograms the antenna to an elliptical reflector whose distant focus is now at the position where the object of interest is located. Hence .a maximum amount of available power is being used to observe a distant object so that the range at which it can be detected is now greatly increased.
One of the advantages of the present invention is that it does away with the necessity for a complicated corporate feed system involving a multiply-branched system of feed lines which is commonly used in a large antenna array. In special cases, however, it may be desirable to combine the present invention with such a directly fed antenna array. In such a case, one or more short circuits controllable electrically or otherwise would be placed in the feedlines to the array elements; an auxiliary feed element would also be placed in front of the array to transmit energy to impinge against the array. Thus when the feed element and the short circuit elements were activated the antenna system would operate according to the present invention as previously described, and alternatively the arrangement could be operated as a conventional multielement transmitting or receiving array.
Such an alternative form of invention is illustrated in FIGURE 5 in partially schematic form. A plurality of elemental phasing units 101a through 108a are arranged to provide an antenna array or reflector assembly depending upon the mode of operation of the apparatus. Only one row of elemental phasing units 101a-108a is illustrated but it will be appreciated that in the usual case a two-dimensional array such as illustrated in FIGURE 2 will be provided. Also the number of elemental phasing units in the row is illustrated as eight, but a different number may be provided as required. Each of the elemental phasing units 10111-10811 is formed of similar components and accordingly only unit 101a will be described and it will be understood that the description thereof and the reference numbers thereon will alsoapply to the other units.
Unit 101a includes an antenna 80 which is connected to a phase control element 81 so that a signal received at antenna 80 is transmitted to phase control element 81 which subjects it to a phase shift which is controllable,
preferably electrically, in response to a signal transmitted:
to the phase controller through line 85 from program-.
mer 86.
The phase controller 81 is connected by a suitable transmission path 82 to an electrically controlled radio frequency switch 83. Switch 83 may comprise. a diode placed in the waveguide or other transmission line and provided with appropriate bias and signal voltages in accordance with techniques Well known in the art and de-- scribed for example in US. Patent No. 2,908,813 to R. F. Morrison, Jr.
In a first operative condition switch 83 short circuits transmission path 82 to cause the signal received by an tenna to be reflected and reradiated from antenna 80 (after again passing through phase control element 81). Thus it will be seen that with switches 83 in the first operative condition, the operation of the apparatus of FIGURE 5 is substantially thatpreviously described for.
FIGURES 1-3. For simplicity the attenuationcontrol elements 69 have been omitted in the apparatus of FIG- URE 5, but it will be understood that they could readily be incorporated in this apparatus and may conveniently be combined with switches 83.
Since the operation of the apparatus for the short circuit condition of switches 83 is substantially as previous.- ly explained for FIGURES 1-3, it will not be explained in detail, but it will suifice to say that the arrangement of elemental antenna units effectively provide a reflector having an electrically controllable shape for modifying the wave form shape, beam pattern, etc. of an electromagnetic wave transmitted from or received 'at feed element 62.
In its second operative condition, switch 83 provides a substantially unimpeded transmission path for signals transmitted through transmission path 82 so that trans-' mission path 82 is effectively connected to a multiplybranched feed system 84 which serves to connect the vari-- ous elemental antenna units with a receiver 87. Accord-. ingly with switch 83 in the transmissive condition, an an-- tenna array is provided connected by a multiply-branched feed system to a receiver 87.
Programmer 86 is efiective'to control the beam char acteristic in either mode of operation of the system of.
FIGURE 5, and also controls switching of the system from one mode to another. It may be noted that phase control elements 81 are substantially twice as effective when the system is in the reflector mode of operation by virtue of the fact that the signal passes through the phase control elements 81 twice (once in each direction).
In FIGURE 5, it will be noted that two receivers 87 and 63 are shown and in some cases it will be desirable to thus provide separate receivers (or separate transmitters, or a transmitter and a receiver) for each mode of operation of the system. Obviously, a single receiver or transmitter or other utilization device could be connected both to feed element 62 and multiply-branched feed structure 84. If desired a switch could be provided for selec-.
tive connection of the receiver to elements 84 and 62 and such a switch could be controlled by programmer 86.
From the foregoing explanation it will be seen that FIGURE 5 shows an alternative embodiment of the invention in which an antenna array is provided having a multiply-branched feed system, and wherein the same structure with relatively few additional elements is provided with a second mode of operation wherein an elec-. trically controllable refiecter type antenna is provided;
Thus the advantages of a reflector antenna system may be provided selectively for certain operations in the cycle of operations of the apparatus. As an example, line losses in a multiply-branched feed system often become a limiting factor, and the system of FIGURE 5 may therefore be arranged to utilize the reflector mode of op-:
eration during a search phase in a radar system until a target has been acquired. After acquisition the target information processing and tracking may be better ac:
complished by use of the antenna array mode of operation.
It will be understood that the comments with respect to variations and the theory of operation discussed in connection with FIGURES 1-3 are generally applicable to the apparatus of FIGURE 5, and, while not repeated, should be considered to be incorporated in the description of the embodiment of FIGURE 5.
From the foregoing explanation it will be appreciated that according to the present invention an antenna system is provided which combines features of previous systems characterized by reflectors or arrays and, to a considerable extent, obtains the advantages of both.
Several variations and modifications of the specific system described have been suggested, but it will be appreciated that numerous other variations and modifications will be apparent to those of skill in the art and it is accordingly desired that the scope of the invention not be limited to those specific embodiments shown or suggested but that it be limited solely by the appended claims.
What is claimed is:
1. A radio frequency antenna system comprising a reflector assembly; a feed element directed toward the center of said assembly and spaced therefrom a distance between approximately one-half and one-quarter the maximum dimension of said assembly; a radio frequency transmission line connected to said feed element and adapted to be connected to antenna utilization apparatus, said assembly comprising a plurality of elemental reflector units each having a rectangular horn antenna, an electrically controllable phase control element connected to said horn antenna by waveguide transmission line to modify a signal received by said horn antenna, and signal reflecting means connected to receive the modified signal from said horn antenna and phase control element and return it for transmission from said horn antenna; and means for transmitting a set of control signals to the respective phase control elements to provide predetermined phase shifts of respective portions of the wave front impinging on said reflector assembly.
2. A radio frequency antenna system comprising a reflector assembly; a feed element directed toward the center of said assembly and spaced therefrom a distance between approximately one-half and one-quarter the maximum dimension of said assembly; a radio frequency receiver, a radio frequency transmission line connected between said feed element and said receiver, said assembly comprising a substantially coplanar rectilinear array of at least elemental reflector units each having a rectangular horn antenna, an electrically controllable phase control element and an electrically controllable signal amplitude control element serially connected by waveguide transmission line to said horn antenna to modify a signal received by said horn antenna, and signal reflecting means connected to receive the modified signal from said horn antenna phase control and amplitude control elements and return it to said horn antenna for transmission from said horn antenna; and means for transmitting a set of control signals to the respective phase control elements and amplitude control elements to provide predetermined phase shifts and amplitude changes of respective portions of the wave front impinging on said reflector assembly.
3. A radio frequency antenna system comprising an array of a plurality of elemental antennas, a multiplybranched transmission line adapted to connect said elemental antennas to a utilization device, respective phaseshift elements connected to each elemental antenna, a feed element directed toward said array and adapted to be connected to a utilization device, means for creating a short circuit at each said phase-shift element and effectively disconnecting said transmission line from said elemental antennas whereby said short circuiting and disconnection efiectively converts said antenna system from an antenna array having a multiply-branched transmission line feed to an antenna of the reflector-feed element type.
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HERMAN KARL SAALBACH, Primary Examiner.
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The Producer of SUN Answers Our Questions
In-Kyun Hong took the time to answer a few of our questions about their upcoming MMORPG. The game, from Webzen Inc., features action-packed console style-combat and brings it to the MMORPG arena.
I'm In-Kyun Hong, the producer of SUN. I'm in charge of the overall game development process including game design, team management and planning.
Webzengames.com is the official site for all WEBZEN titles. The official SUN site will launch soon.
SUN is an MMORPG that takes the action and features of a 3D action/adventure game and blends it with traditional MMORPG gameplay. For high quality graphics and action, most battles are carried out through instanced dungeons. There will also be towns or cities similar to those in traditional MMORPGs.
We wanted to make sure the music in SUN was top notch and would elevate the gameplay experience. The dark and heavy atmosphere of SUN fit perfectly with Howard Shore's music.
The piece that Howard has created has a heavy and solemn tone that embodies the mood in SUN. It is different from his previous work and is tailored to the game.
Actually, SUN will not support PvP in battlefields. PvP can occur in guild or siege war, and in duels with mutual agreement.
The recommended system is P4 2.4, RAM 512M and GeForce FX graphic card, but by setting the options, SUN can be enjoyed on a lower system as well.
SUN puts the style of a 3D action/adventure game into an MMORPG. In battle, we are working on move attacks, range attacks and unique skills that let players fight with multiple monsters at one time. Also, missions are not just given as quests. Instead, players will have to pay close attention to the environment where suspicious marks or switches may lead to the next mission. For example, touch a switch and a wall may break down or a trap might be activated. These are the types of things we're putting into SUN to give it faster and more thrilling gameplay.
SUN will use a zone system, not a seamless world. Transportation between zones will be done through portals.
Currently, we are planning on implementing the traditional system where servers are divided up by country.
There are five different types of playable characters in SUN -- Berserker is a warrior with enormous strength, Dragon Knight is a descendent of the noble dragon tribe, Shadow is a descendent of a demon who has strong magical power, Valkyrie is a weapons specialist with high agility, and there is also a mysterious girl who an use magic inherited from the ancient era. Classes and jobs are fixed for each character.
So far, it has been working with Howard Shore for the music of SUN. I hope to make as much of an impression on the games industry as he has made in the film industry.
SUN is in development for the global market. In order to satisfy North American and European users, we are working to provide more in-depth content. In terms of completion, it's hard to say when an online game is "complete", but I can tell you that we're looking to launch the game in 2006.
We are currently developing the data for our first closed beta test in the summer of 2005.
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Land or Trails in Hampton Roads?
Anyone know of any good spots in or near Hampton Roads, Virginia? Preferably Virginia Beach? I know there is a lot of land, etc in Pungo, but it is all privately owned! Thanks in advance.
Virginia ATV Trails andhttp://www.offroadnorthamerica.com/login.asp. The first link is mainly for bikes and ATVs, but there are some 4x4 areas listed.
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Casualty of War; Domestic Policy Falls Victim
Byline: Gary J. Andres, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Media coverage of domestic policy has been palpably thin this year. No doubt the ongoing war in Iraq and the media preoccupation over the prison-abuse scandal causes editors to routinely spike domestic stories. "You can write the piece," a Republican press aide recently told a reporter from a major national paper inquiring about a domestic issue, "but your paper will never print it."
Last week, while the Bush campaign focused on the merits of the No Child Left Behind Act, the Kerry camp stumped on health care. Neither effort generated major news. "We have the president of the United States, riding around in a bus, talking about domestic policy, and no one's paying attention," a senior Bush official lamented. "And it's only going to get worse as the transfer of power [in Iraq] gets closer in June."
Capitol Hill is in the same boat. Lawmakers debate legislation each week, but nightly news coverage is sketchy, except about the war. Indeed, both the House and Senate are devoting the bulk of their time to the defense authorization bill this week. Ironically, even the recent "Cover the Uninsured Week," imploring lawmakers to address this lack of insurance coverage for millions of Americans, received little "coverage."
Is the ship of state stuck in the domestic doldrums? Yes and no. The ongoing conflict in Iraq makes this the first extended "war Congress" since the Nixon administration grappled with wrapping up Vietnam, complete with resolutions supporting the troops, urgent requests to fund the military and hearings about the prosecution of the war. Foreign and defense policy are sucking all the oxygen out of the Beltway bubble.
Lawmaking and communications are indeed different in a war Congress. Yet war is a partial explanation. Other factors - such as unified party control of the legislative and executive branch - influence the framing of domestic debates. Understanding these dynamics helps explain how Washington works during times of war ... and peace.
Republican control of Congress and the White House is one factor. The press is looking for big fights and just not finding any. Throughout George H.W. Bush's administration, or the Clinton years, after the 1994 election, different parties controlled the Congress and the White House, setting the stage for big domestic-policy showdowns. Those same dynamics don't exist today. Reporters are itching for a veto confrontation, for example, and are not going to get one, principally because the Republican leadership recognizes it's a no-win situation and doesn't let it happen. …


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An evolutionary case for cannibalism.
In our own species, those bloodthirsty Aztecs and their prehistoric descendants were notorious for their sacrifice and cannibalism rituals. These were largely symbolic religious events, but some scholars have suggested that the greasy surfeit of Aztec sacrifice victims may have also been a high-energy nutritional supplement for the wealthy elite, who had first dibs on this "man corn." Noncannibalistic people may be the weird ones, cross-culturally speaking. Researchers have documented evidence of ritual anthropophagy throughout non-state societies in Africa (Zandelande, Sierra Leone, the Belgian Congo), South America (Eastern Brazil, Ecuador, Western Columbia, Paraguay), the New Hebrides (Fiji, Papau, New Guinea, Vanuatu, East New Guinea Highlands), and Native America. It's appeared in modern "civilized" societies, too, including famine-stricken China and Soviet-era Russia.
The bottom line, says Petrinovich, is that when you're hungry enough, ravenous really, and when all other food sources—including "inedible" things you'd rather not stomach such as shoes, shoelaces, pets, steering wheels, rawhide saddlebags, or frozen donkey brains—have been exhausted and expectations are sufficiently low, even the most recalcitrant moralist among us would shrug off the cannibalism taboo and savor the sweet meat of man … or woman, boy or girl, for that matter. It's either that or die, and among the two choices, only one is biologically adaptive.
A behavior can be adaptive without being an inherited biological adaptation, of course. But because starvation occurred with such regularity in our ancestral past, and because the starving mind predictably relaxes its cannibalistic proscriptions, and because eating other people restores energy and sustains lives, and because the behavior is universal and proceeds algorithmically (we eat dead strangers first, then dead relatives, then live slaves, then foreigners, and so on down the ladder to kith and kin), there is reason to believe—for Petrinovich, at least—that anthropophagy is an evolved behavior. The taboo against cannibalism is useful in times of health and prosperity; groups wouldn't survive very long if members were eating one another up. Yet starvation has a way of releasing the cannibal within.
In fact, starvation cannibalism may have been so prevalent in the ancestral past that it literally changed our DNA. Modern human populations appear to contain specific genetic adaptations designed to combat cannibalistic viruses. Typically, when a predator species consumes a prey species, there are substantive differences in immune systems between the two, with different varieties of pathogens. But the more similar are the eater and the eaten, the more vulnerable is the former to debilitating food-borne disease. This is what likely happened with the New Guinea Fore people in the case of kuru, a neurodegenerative disease that devastated that population in the early half of the last century. Epidemiologists traced the disease to mortuary cannibalism; women and children were eating the brains of the recently deceased as part of a funerary ritual. (Pork had fallen into short supply, so human brains infused a healthy dose of protein.) The interesting thing is that kuru is a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and probably resulted, originally, from a single case of cannibalism among the Fore of a CJD-ridden brain, with kuru then evolving on its own course. In a 2003 issue of Current Biology, University of Nottingham geneticist John Brookfield speculated that over the past 500,000 years, human beings developed increasing variation in the gene for the human prion protein. Those who are heterozygous for this gene, points out Brookfield, were protected against CJD through cannibalism. "This sustained heterozygote advantage [was possibly] created by a lifestyle of habitual cannibalism," suggests Brookfield, "implying a new vision of the lifestyles of our ancestors."
As we've seen, not all cases of cannibalism are due to nutritional needs. Sociopathic individuals such as Jeffrey Dahmer, Armin Meiwes and Issei Sagawa lived in urban environments peppered with fast-food restaurants and overflowing grocery stores, yet still they dined on people. In his book SuperSense, University of Bristol psychologist Bruce Hood argues that such cases reflect essentialism beliefs, the idea that the victims' hidden "essences" or personality attributes are acquired by physical ingestion. It's also interesting that many such cases have a sexual component. As the author of To Serve Man: A Cookbook for People wrote teasingly: "There is no form of carnal knowledge so complete as that of knowing how somebody tastes." I suspect there's some truth to that uncomfortable joke. Essentialism beliefs may account for our species' peculiar—and surprisingly recent—history of medical cannibalism as well. The conquistadors and their New World heirs were known to have used human fat from agile natives to grease their arthritic joints. Long before Armin Meiwes was even a twinkling in his mother's eye, pregnant Ache women of Paraguay were nibbling on boiled penises in the hopes it would bring them sons.
So with all of these scenes swimming in my head, and pragmatist that I am, I'm left wondering why, exactly, it is that the consumption of already dead human bodies is such a taboo, especially for societies in which the soul is commonly seen as flitting off at death like an invisible helium balloon. If you subscribe to such dualistic notions, after all, the body is only some empty shell that the now-liberated spirit no longer needs. All those poor starving children of the world, surrounded by—as some epicures swear—the most succulent meat on the planet. Even resurrectionists should gleefully feed the impoverished with their own flesh, lest they, God forbid, allow such a bounty of edible meat to go to rot. All those wasted commercial goods, burned down to sticky dust in crematories, squirreled away behind ornate vaults, fed extravagantly to bloated subterranean organisms! If you'd rather not eat meat from aged or possibly diseased dead people, and if you're worried about the dignity of the individual, it would be easy enough to breed and then factory-farm brain-dead or free-ranging anencephalic human beings *, treating them humanely, of course, but enforcing food safety standards to control for outbreaks.
A parting tip for the entrepreneur: Rumor has it there's already some prime breeding stock—unfortunately a bit marbled with adipose tissue but with all the lucidity of dairy cows—readily available as founder lines in select communities. Want to buy in? E-mail me for details.
Watch: Robert Wright of BloggingHeads.tv and psychologist Paul Bloom of Yale on what motivates cannibals.
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Correction, Dec. 20, 2010: The original incorrectly referred to "hydrocephalic" human beings, who would have a less severe condition characterized by an excess of cerebrospinal fluid. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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The Inn At Gig Harbor
The Inn At Gig Harbor
Hotel Guest Rating: 8.7/10
3211 56th Street Nw
Gig Harbor, WA 98335
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The INN at Gig Harbor features a restaurant, serving breakfast and lunch. It is 5 minutes' drive from Gig Harbor's Historic Village. Free WiFi and a daily continental breakfast is offered. All rooms are non-smoking.Featuring mountain views, each room at The Inn at Gig Harbor offers free bottled water and free toiletries. Styled in dark wood furnishings, rooms feature light coloured linens.Pastries, juice, tea and coffee are just some of the free breakfast items provided daily. A reception with a stone fireplace and additional seating is provided at The Inn at Gig Harbor.Heritage Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner at The Inn at Gig Harbor. All dishes are inspired by the Pacific Northwest and classic American cuisine.Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is 35 miles away. Downtown Tacoma is 10 miles away from The Inn at Gig Harbor. ...read more
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- 24-hour front desk
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Sabine from Glendale, CA
July 31, 2015
July 31, 2015
Loved the staff! They were very kind and courteous. The service was excellent. The lobby was very clean and inviting. The room and bathroom were very clean and neat. Loved that they had a microwave, refrigerator, and Keurig coffee maker.
Verified Hotel Guest from Everson, WA
May 27, 2015
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May 27, 2015
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Very easy to find, convenient location. Nice fridge and microwave!
Verified Hotel Guest from Anchorage, AK
January 8, 2014
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January 8, 2014
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It was nice; pleasant. Daughter loved the coffee maker :)
It was a bit noisy. Had to call room next door because their TV was WAY too loud. I also felt our room was too near the elevator; due to the location we got a lot of hall noise.
Heather from Washougal, WA
October 1, 2013
October 1, 2013
Room size was HUGE. I could not believe it when I opened the bathroom door and it had a jetted tub, walk in shower, double sinks and hotel toiletries everywhere. The room was large with King size bed, couch and walk in closet with Robes.
Nothing, will stay again
One of the best hotels for the price
Verified Hotel Guest from Caldwell, ID
July 23, 2013
July 23, 2013
It was clean, room and closet was a nice size and bathroom was huge, staff was friendly and accommodating. Location was convenient for us but there was really no other choice.
Freeway noise was terrible (could possibly use better insulated windows) and bed was very uncomfortable. Instead of replacing mattress they put some kind of "lumpy" pad on top of it.
Debra from Newberg, OR
December 18, 2012
December 18, 2012
Ease of check in, use, restaurant and check out. Nice quality stay!
James from West Vancouver,Canada
September 30, 2009
September 30, 2009
Attractive feeling and fast check in.
Location not on the water.
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