"Michael Black" wrote in message
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As someone pointed out, perfboard is not so great for RF. Better
to use a blank piece of copper circuit board, and build on top of
that, so you have the copper as a good ground point. But that's
likely "messier" than using perfboard with the wiring on the bottom.
But how something looks is irrelevant. You can stick it in a box
out of view. Building over circuit board actually works better than
perfboard, because it's easier to run wires in a three dimensional
space.

If you look at the manhattan style work of Jim Kortge
(http://www.qsl.net/k8iqy/) or Chuck Adams (http://www.qsl.net/k7qo/) it's
hard to call it "messier".

Of course, few of us mortals can do the sort of work they can.

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