Thanks for the responses, I gather long cables are not going to work well, so im thinking stuff the arduino into a weatherproof box and mount it high up on my house.
The module has a wire whip antenna fitted but it also has pads for an sma connector, i'll just test the range with the whip then maybe with an external antenna after, they have a 3km open air range, I know that will dramatically reduce in urban areas, I'd like to know how much by logging data with a gps