Aspects of a communication system include phase shifters, interrogators, methods of shifting a phase angle of a signal, and methods of operating an interrogator. One example provides a phase shifter that include a first power divider configured to receive a signal and provide plural quadrature components of the signal; plural mixers coupled with the first power divider and configured to scale the quadrature components using a phase shift angle; and a second power divider coupled with the mixers and configured to combine the scaled quadrature components to shift the phase angle of the input signal by the phase shift angle.