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from the website:

> Things have been made much easier by putting the most complicated electronics on a PCB.

maybe it looks like this nowadays?

http://www.simandl.cz/stranky/elektro/ronja/ronja.htm

To the contrary. That is how hams wire up their circuits when using throughhole components. Look here: https://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/getting-ugly-dead-bugs-and-g...

Some do, but it's stupid. There's no reason to do it that way other than laziness. And even that's the wrong word as that's much more difficult than using a board.

You don't get a ground plane with perfboard, unless you submit yourself to the pain of working with vectorboard, and perfboard construction is inherently more fragile than dead bug.

If you get good at dead bug construction, you can make changes and do experiments as easily as with a solderless breadboard.

This is running at RF frequencies, no you cant use perf board for that.