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That doesn't sound very heavy 1lb :/
I'd also be weary of attaching antenna's on the side of a house anyway they make very good lightening rods
Seeing the house is already aluminum ?
https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/696075
No, it's not heavy except that the aluminum that would be supporting it is very thin and would not be able to support that kind of weight.
Thanks for the link. Sadly, the links it has are out of date. I tried Sierra Wireless' site directly but it was hopeless to find anything on it (heck, it didn't even have a search engine).
I'm looking into mounting an antenna directly to the edge of the roof and running a short cable from it to the bulkhead connector on the side of the trailer where the present antenna is mounted. Before going to that extreme, I'll wait a while to see how well the one there holds up to the weather. I'm not worried about lightning on the present one since it sticks up over the edge of the roof only a couple of inches. The one I found would stick up only 19". My TV antenna sticks up five feet (at night, in the moonlight, it looks like a small flying saucer is hovering over the house). There are tall palm trees either side of my home that would catch a lightning strike first.
Yea I'd ask Verizon a couple of the links worked I wasn't sure if they were just boosters or what :/
Well, my search for a suitable outdoor antenna was fruitless but I may have come across a way to weatherproof the existing antenna. The old product I used to use for dipping tool handles was just a vinyl product and wouldn't weather well but there is a newer coating out—Plasti dip—that is supposed to be far more durable. A lot of car enthusiasts use it to protect and enhance car rims, logos, body panels, and even entire car bodies and it holds up for a year or more under that harsh of an application so I got a can of the stuff.
Since I couldn't get an extra antenna from Huawei or Straight Talk, I bought another transceiver just for the antenna, although I'll be keeping the transceiver for a spare (although I paid $30 for the package, it came with a $15 airtime card as part of the promo so the antenna cost only $15 and the transceiver was free...or was it the other way around?), tied a string on the connector end and masked off the connector with electrical tape, then dipped five coats of the stuff onto the antenna, letting it dry 45 minutes between coats. After letting it dry for four hours, I cut away the coating over the connector. This is the result:
I tested it inside the house by disconnecting the outside antenna cable from the transceiver and connecting the coated antenna to the transceiver. When I first got the transceiver, the antenna was able to get one bar of reception inside (the reception strength, from low to high, is one blinking bar, one bar, and two bars). The coated antenna also got one bar so the coating didn't affect signal strength any. I'll have to swap out the coated antenna with the one that is currently outside later (I just don't feel like dragging out and climbing the ladder today). Time will tell how well the coating will hold up to the weather but it should last at least a year, hopefully more. If it does fail, at least the coating will be easy to peel off.
Thanks guys,
Cheers for that. The case is very heavy but having that handle makes all the difference in the world. As does an air compressor for that matter.