System and method for housing antennas

A method for operating a multi modem communications device providing electronic communication across a plurality of radios having a central housing chassis adapted to provide an electrical counterpoise for the electronic communication, the central housing chassis comprising material that provides radio frequency shielding;

• and a plurality of wide-band antennas, each coupled to the central housing chassis, each corresponding to a modem of a plurality of modems provided by the multi modem communications device, and each operating on similar frequency bands;
• each of the wide-band antennas that correspond to a modem of the plurality of modems are positioned on the central housing chassis or configured on the central housing chassis to physically block, using a horizon established by a shape of the central housing chassis as a radio frequency shield line of sight between other wide-band antennas of the plurality of wide-band antennas positioned in a near field region and coupled to the central housing chassis being used for the modem of the plurality of modems, reducing cross-coupling loading or energy loss as between the plurality of wide-band antennas, the method comprising:
• establishing a local area data connection to a master data communications device in a local area network;
• interoperating with, by the master data communications device, the multi modem communications device to establish wide area data communications using the plurality of wide-band antennas and the plurality of modems to connect to cellular networks.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing machine interpretable instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for operating a multi modem communications device providing electronic communication across a plurality of radios having a central housing chassis adapted to provide an electrical counterpoise for the electronic communication, the central housing chassis comprising material that provides radio frequency shielding;

• and a plurality of wide-band antennas, each coupled to the central housing chassis, each corresponding to a modem of a plurality of modems provided by the multi modem communications device, and each operating on similar frequency bands;
• each of the wide-band antennas that correspond to a modem of the plurality of modems are positioned on the central housing chassis or configured on the central housing chassis to physically block, using a horizon established by a shape of the central housing chassis as a radio frequency shield line of sight between other wide-band antennas of the plurality of wide-band antennas positioned in a near field region and coupled to the central housing chassis being used for the modem of the plurality of modems of the plurality of wide-band antennas coupled to the central housing chassis, reducing cross-coupling loading or energy loss as between the plurality of wide-band antennas, the method comprising:
• establishing a local area data connection to a master data communications device in a local area network;
• interoperating with, by the master data communications device, the multi modem communications device to establish wide area data communications using the plurality of wide-band antennas or the plurality of modems to connect to cellular networks.