Abstract :
Regarding the article by Prabhakar Pathak, Giorgio Carluccio, and Matteo Albani, ??The Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction and Some of Its Applications,?? in the August 2013 issue of the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine (55, 4, August 2013, pp. 41??69), the authors make reference to some data comparing the measured and calculated coupling between a pair of antennas installed on a small aerial platform that is shown on the front cover of the magazine. I wish to point out to your readers that these data came from a comprehensive study conducted by the Naval Research Laboratory to investigate the use of the NEC Basic Scattering Code (NECBSC). This was developed by the ElectroScience Laboratory at The Ohio State University, based on the Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction, to predict the coupling between transmitting and receiving antennas on an aerial platform called FLYRT.
