putting antenna next to a massive conducting plane like alucase is ruining the antenna tuning, no matter on which "side" - actually there's no such thing like a "side" for omnidirectional antennae. On OT, this is as much OT in here like any other N900 related topic. Since all N900 stuff also applies to Neo900, you could discuss exactly 100% of all the other N900/maemo threads in this thread as well, right? Please move it elsewhere! E.G. to a thread about N900 case modding