A compact circularly polarised printed antenna is presented. The antenna co
nsists of a synchronous subarray of shorted patches with the required Feed
network etched on a high dielectric constant substrate located below the gr
ound-plane of the antenna. The 10 dB return loss and the 3dB axial ratio ba
ndwidths are 8.5 and 11.3%, respectively. The overall size of the proposed
antenna is 0.195 lambda(0) x 0.1953 gamma(0) x 0.052 lambda(0).