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A good (free) tool to use for designing microstrips is appcad provided by Agilent.
I've compared its results with the microstip calculator in Agilents Genesys product at they are very close.
http://www.hp.woodshot.com/
Cheers!
Andrew
Re: RF Plane Issues
I'll try to answer with one caveat: I still consider myself a novice in this area even though I've been working on RF pcb's for 3+ years.
In designing RF boards we're trying to minimize losses from either reflections (due to impedance mismatch) or 'resistive' loss.
Most RF...
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