<div dir="ltr">Why run an antenna to the roof, when you can put the entire unit on the roof in a weatherproof enclosure? Then you only need to run Cat5e or better back down, which probably is already in place in most cases...<div><br></div><div>Saves time and worry dealing with weak GPS signals and suitable antennas/coax feeds... If you can't move the signal to the device, move the device to the signal!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 4:59 PM Mark Delany <<a href="mailto:g2x@juliet.emu.st">g2x@juliet.emu.st</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 14Nov22, Nathan Brookfield allegedly wrote:<br>
> Absolutely true but that's why the board has a UFL/IPX so that you can throw an active antenna to somewehre that can see the sky, absolutely not going to work in a data centre but for home or an Office lab, absolutely acheivable.<br>
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Agreed. But lets be frank here. The antenna and cabling costs are likely to be orders of<br>
magnitude more than the shield/hat cost.<br>
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I have absolutely no problem with that and have paid the price for other radio<br>
technologies (such as adsb) and I may well pay the price to deploy Rob's excellent<br>
shield. But I think ausnog members benefit from understanding the full BOM.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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