wrote:

Thanks, Irv,

Could you elaberate a liitle bit "make the antenna a ground plane or
vertical and use a piece of copper clad circuit board as the plane" ?
Do you mean to have a piece of copper clad board separete (or inserted
between) the antenna and the other component? Or make the antenna
out of ..... ?
I will read your home pages as well.

Thanks.
Jin

What I suggested is to use the copper separation between the antenna and
the other components where it can act as a shield, and to integrate the copper
as part of the antenna -- i.e. it becomes the ground plane for a vertical element which
is your radiator.

Irv VE6BP
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