On Dec 15, 8:07*pm, mm wrote:
....snip, too much...

with regard to removing an element.

sure, snap it off, but save it.

Drill a hole through the board large enough and remount the element to
the antenna.

Just picture making the whole antenna, look like it did before, but
intertwined in the wood structure.

Below, 300MHz, should be no problem. And you said you were
intereseted in ch 7, 175MHz?

At reall high frequencies the wood, and its moisture, start getting
back into the picture. [sorry for the pun]

However, break, or cut, but be sure to reconnect smoothly. Contact at
one point is not good enough. Think surfaces, this is RF.