I am finding that it is harder and harder to come up with a concept or scheme where I can make some prototyping surfaces and have on hand to use for experimenting. My solderless breadboards are nice, but sometimes I wonder if stray capacitance, inductance and Lord only knows what else will be present when going that route. Attaching pads to a chunk of old PCB scrap is OK till you you get in a hurry and the glue has not set long enough. I have an islander drill bit and that is fun, but it is a one time use method.

Yet another homebrew step attenuator.  This was actually a work related project I decided to photograph and document the construction steps.  It has a good response and SWR to 1000MHz using copper clad (quasi- Manhattan style) and surface mount resistors.  The article also includes a short tutorial on using G10-FR4 copper clad at high frequencies.  Performance was tested on a scalar network analyzer to show response and SWR to 1000MHz; waveforms included.  Hope you find the information useful.

72, Paul Harden NA5N