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Ultra-wideband radio technology (UWB-RT) inherited a potential of extremely high rate of data communications, Claude Shannon discovered this in 1948 and derived the later-called-as Shannon-Hartley‘s channel capacity laws. This famous theoretical law however was not able to substantiate in practice until the development of the sampling oscilloscope by Hewlett-Packard in 1962, which, in accordance with the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem, was then capable to reconstruct at-that-time rather large UWB signals (Wilson, 2002)., Applied mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

The number of topside shipboard antennas doubled every decade; in 1990s they were close to 200 and have no sight of stop growing (Tavik, 2005). The over-crowded present of such many topside antennas in a limited-space of littoral warfare ship has created/caused many critical, unavoidable problem like antenna blockage, electromagnetic interference, increase RCS, worsen the effective stealthy signature of combatant ships, which is stealthy-intended designed, and most of all is the maintenance costs of multiple systems, huge numbers of repair-personnel and operators (Tibbitts & Baron, 1999). This publication is sponsored by the Open Access Fund TU Delft. OA-fund TU Delft, Applied Sciences