Antenna in Peli Case Lid?

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Hey everyone,

I have a UBR LTE and use a Puma 401 antenna with it. Currently it’s mounted to a stand and I need to plug it into the UBR LTE (which is in a rack case) each time I need to use it. This is a little faffy and also a little time consuming and crucially not very waterproof!

I’d like to try and sort out a better solution and was wondering if I might be able to mount the 401 into the lid of a peli case containing the UBR LTE. Will this work? I appreciate that ultimately the antenna is designed to be mounted to a vehicle roof, but does the metallic roof provide any kind of ground plane for the antenna?

Something a little like this is what I’m thinking of, and then obviously this case can be placed outdoors on top of something at a reasonable height - ie a wall, or a stand or something.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/forum.peplink.com/uploads/1640106195755.jpg(image larger than 4 MB)

Would appreciate any thoughts on this.

Simon

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It will work fine. The Mobility antennas (formerly known as Puma) don’t need a ground plane, they just perform better with one (see page 5 of the 42G datasheet for comparison with and without).

And of course you could add a ground plane in the inside lid of the Peli case if the extra weight wasn’t an issue…

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Thanks Martin that‘s very helpful!

(As was your video on setting up fusionhub with Vultr!!)

I’ll give it a go!

Thanks again,

Simon

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