Talk:Software defined antenna

Software Defined Antennas are becoming a "notable" topic, suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia. The topic has received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources -- two patents, one granted in 2009, and recent articles published in IEEE Journals -- and the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a series of SDA research contracts since approx. 2004 (details to be posted shortly). Bgm328i (talk) 14:21, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Since 2004, SDAs have been the subject of a continuing series of research and development contracts sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense under its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and STTR programs. The specific concept is known as PARCA, Pixel-Addressable Conformal Reconfigurable Antenna. This activity further substantiates the notability of the SDA concept and provides extensive reference material. Bgm328i (talk) 16:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Phased arrays
Phased arrays should be mentioned as related technology. A comparison between phased arrays and software defined antennas would be helpful to explain what SDAs are. After all, the article describes features of phased arrays as characteristic for software defined antennas.Fast healthy fish (talk) 00:51, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Notability
The article fails to meet the relevant notability guideline. A search in Google Scholar for articles with the words "software defined antenna" in the title gives only 11 results. "Software defined antenna" is a relatively narrow topic that belongs to the much wider field of "Reconfigurable antennas" Eagle5eagle (talk) 07:36, 16 June 2014 (UTC)