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Broadband Focal Array Beamformers offer the potential to increase the field of view of reflector antennas. Such systems require a processing bandwidth of order 1 GHz and need to beamform tens of polarized beams from over 100 array elements. A number of such systems have been built but none with the bandwidth and number of elements required by the Square Kilometre Array. In this paper we outline the...