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Nighthawk XR700: Antenna Upgrades and Replacements
Hello, friends! So I am a professional engineering scientist, but I do electronics repairs in my free time to pick up cash here and there, and sometimes even pick up sweet equipment people just give ...
For the records, the tiny PCB there is the 60 GHz phased array antenna in the front of the R9000/XR700. The copper is mostly for heat dissipation - because this is a "hot" technology:
Inside of the antenna "blocks" there is the RF-module, powered and linked over the RF cables from all internal radio modules. In the upper end, there is a single antenna connctor linking to the 2.4/5GHz antenna array on the top end of the antenna PCB.
Show us what's "broken" on the antenna you have at hand...