A transmitter 1 transmits from a transmission antenna 7 a mixture signal
containing a radio-frequency (RF)-band modulated signal, and a portion of
power of a local oscillation signal used for frequency conversion.
Meanwhile, a receiver 8 detects the transmitted signal by means of a
reception antenna-detection section 9. In the reception antenna-detection
section 9, a plurality of base unit reception circuits 11 are disposed.
Each base unit reception circuit 11 includes a planar printed antenna 12
such as a patch antenna, an amplifier circuit 13 formed on a very small
planar circuit by means of an MMIC technique, and a mixer circuit 14
serving as a square-law detector. Respective outputs of the base unit
reception circuits 11 are power-mixed and fed to the IF signal
demodulation section. The IF signal demodulation section 10 demodulate
reception data. This configuration enables realization of a reception
antenna which occupies a very small space, has a detection function and a
high gain, and has a wide beam characteristic comparable to that of a
single-element antenna.