Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating selection of a I-WLAN, or other network, by a wireless device. A method of manufacturing the printed circuit board is also provided. The driving apparatus couples the driving gear and the driven gear to not move with respect to each other when a driving force is transmitted from the driving gear to the driven gear, thereby maintaining a substantially uniform distance between axes of the driving gear and the driven gear. An outer mold is placed on the outer side of the preform. By means of this novel technique, the size of the antenna can be reduced with respect to prior art, or alternatively, given a fixed size the antenna can operate at a lower frequency with respect to a conventional antenna of the same size.