I am planning to use “Electron” in outdoor application. For this I need to put “Electron” in an IP65 enclosure. For this application, which external cellular antenna I should use so that it will be compatible with Electron? (This will be attached to the enclosure on the outside)
You should search the big retailers (RS, DigiKey, Mouser, to name a few) for an M2M outdoor antenna (3G ? 2G ? Which frequency bands are you in ? What about your electron ?).
Then you have two paths:
1- if you want to experiment with several antennas, get an U.FL to SMA cable adapter (a.k.a pigtail), since the antenna connector on electron does not tolerate too many insertion/removals, and get and an antenna with SMA connector
2 - go straight with an U.FL antenna and avoid the pigtail burden
I found an active GPS antenna from symmetryelectronics.com (also got a cellular antenna there as well) that works inside the house and it wasn’t overly expensive. The only thing is you need and SMA adapter to go from male to male. I found those on Amazon (2 adapters per order) for 5.20 USD.
GPS Antenna
Part # FGPS35216-SM-ST
Product Line: 0139 - Embedded Antenna Design
PRODUCT GPS-Stubby Antenna with SMA-Male ST from EAD
PRICE $24.00 USD
Cell Antenna
Part# FTA35011-SM-RA
Product Line : Targan dual band 900/1800 MHz
Product: EAD_08192016
PRICE $3.85 USD