You can give a radio ham a tuna can, a piece of blank PCB and some duct tape and out comes a UHF amp or mixer.
This app note reminded me of something you would see in the ARRL handbook or 73.  :-)

http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm/appnote_number/1110

Couple of things I cobbled together with this technique.

http://www.mindspring.com/~openview/

-----Original Message-----
>From: William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com>
>Sent: Jun 9, 2006 1:45 AM
>To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
>Subject: Re: [PIC]: Proto board hunting
>
>Speaking of prototyping, I'm trying to put together a sort of "survey"
>of hobbyist construction techniques, and was wondering whether anyone
>knows of tutorials aimed at taking some of the "skill" out of using
>various sorts of protoboard construction (especially stripboard,
>pad-per-hole board, and bare perfboard (ie point-to-point construction.)
>
>BillW
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