After I got the lid off, the antenna was in full display.  There was about 7 screws holding the antenna to the aluminum base.  I still couldn't pull the whole unit out to see the electronics, but i knew they were there.  I unscrewed the antenna but it had a soldered connection in the middle.  I hooked up my soldering iron and unsoldered that.  The antenna came off and there was a nut on the bottom where the antenna feed through to the electronics.  I tried tied to pull it apart once more after undoing the nut but still no luck.  I took a knife and scrapped off some of residual foam and found the screws holding the shield (my guess anyway) to the casing.  I undid the screws and shield came apart.  I finally got to the electronics.  I decided to take a break at this point and pack it up for the evening.  Next time I will do some exploring into how this thing works and what i can do with it, if anything