at the desk in a further embodiment as shown in fig2 a the shield or housing may be comprised of a thin generally planar mat 50 of conductive material which mat 50 may be flexible and distortable for conformance to any surface human or otherwise and may be folded or rolled up to minimize storage requirements the mat 50 has an upper layer 52 made of a dielectric material plastic foam or the like a thin flat conformable coupling probe 54 is embedded into or printed onto the upper surface of the layer of dielectric material 52 the mat 50 may be utilized as a portable focal area for placement of a communication device thereon or wrapped up in an enveloping manner therein the probe 54 is connected to a transmission line 56 in electrical contact with a network or remote antenna not shown in this figure a yet further embodiment of the present invention includes a control unit 60 connected into the transmission line 62 from the pickup probe 64 to the further remote antenna 66 shown in fig3 a and 3 b the control unit 60 may comprise a filter switch amplifier attenuator combiner splitter or other type of frequency converter connected to a computer 68 the computer 68 may be arranged to accumulate customer or billing information by functioning with a processor to print out use data 69 to maintain frequency control functions or to act as a regulator for multiple users of the antenna coupling system 10 there may be a plurality of pickup coupling probes 64 each connected to the control unit.