I about ready to design and build my own solid state RF amp. Is
there a good and affordable piece of software out there that I can use
to neatly map out the circuit traces for my printed circuit board.

http://www.cadsoft.de/freeware.htm might be sufficient, depending on
the size of the board you plan to make.

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