JEYASINGH NITHIANANDAM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Morgan State University 5200 Perring Parkway, Baltimore, Maryland 21251, USA Jeyasingh.Nithianandam@morgan.edu http://www.soe.morgan.edu/academic_programs/electrical_eng/faculty.html This paper presents a small wide band printed antenna with a single feed that would be useful for L3band and S3band telemetry systems. The printed antenna consists of coplanar waveguide fed meandered patch radiator element. This antenna will also be useful for integrated network enhanced telemetry (iNET) program. We present our results on design of the wide band antenna and its evaluated its performance by a full wave electromagnetic simulations with Ansoft HFSS software. 3 stacked patch antenna, single feed, electromagnetic coupling, INET, dual band. Several research work has been reported in the past few years on radar remote sensing, microwave radiometry and radio communication systems that operate at different frequency bands [1,2]. It is desirable to design compact and light weight antennas that would operate in multi3 frequency bands. Currently there is a need for a dual band antenna for applications in integrated network enhanced telemetry (iNET) program. Our main objective is to design and develop printed antenna elements with broad band characteristics in the L3 and S3 frequency bands. In this paper, we present our design of a meandered patch antenna with a coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed and results from a full wave finite element electromagnetic simulations to evaluate the performance of this radiator element. We find that this CPW3fed antenna has a broad band performance and it would be useful for dual3band operation that is needed for aeronautical telemetry applications. A CPW3fed meandered patch antenna is shown in figure 1. Figure 1. A schematic diagram of a CPW3fed meandered patch radiator element. A FR4 substrate of thickness 1.6 mm is used in this design. The patch element is formed by widening the center signal metal strip of the RECENT ADVANCES on DATA NETWORKS, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS ISSN: 1790-5109 246 ISBN: 978-960-474-134-2