Patent ID: 7385147

Claim:
A communications assembly, comprising: an electrically groundable platform; a shell supported on said platform and being electrically grounded thereto, said shell having a plurality of exterior wall portions fabricated from electrically conductive material; an enclosure having a common exterior wall portion with said shell and being attached thereto, said common exterior wall portion being lined with a magnetic shield material; at least one power supply cable entering said enclosure through said common exterior wall portion and said magnetic shield material; and an articulated communications mast comprising: a base member supported on said platform; and at least two rigid mast segments pivotally interconnected in series and being supported by said base member, and wherein at least two of said pivotally interconnected mast segments are selectively pivotable relative to each other between positions wherein said at least two pivotably interconnected mast segments are coaxially aligned with each other and other positions wherein said at least two pivotably mast segments are not coaxially aligned relative to each other.