Antena underwater

Atomic-Chomik · February 17, 2025, 12:37am

Hello folks, have been putting together a fauxdrive board and Fauxdrive motor/battery assembly.
Its been quite the learning curve.
Anyways i have a cavity in the board where the pelican sits. The cavilty fills up which cools my speed controller. However, the box ends up u der 1/2 inch of water and i loose signal. Surely this isnt a new problem…
Any suggestions or ideas are welcome please.

Marty

t-dub-maui · February 17, 2025, 1:10am

Hey, I have the same Pelican case.
I ended up getting a small cable gland that fits the cable for an external antenna. It works great now.
This is the cable gland I ordered: SKINDICHT-MINI-M6 Cable gland;M6;1;IP68;brass;Body
Mfr: LAPP Original part number: 52001860

Atomic-Chomik · February 17, 2025, 1:42am

Right on Beauty!

Thanks for the quick repl,.

Question#1: did u do a quick connect or just keep a really long external antena coming out of the box.
Question #2: How did u connect the antennae together?

Can you post a pict-dub-maui?

t-dub-maui · February 17, 2025, 5:46am

I didn’t do any quick disconnect. Just a cable coming out of the box.
The antenna connector just barely fits through the cable gland.
These days I have the box in a backpack, so the external antenna isn’t needed.