The study presents theoretical and experimental investigation of a novel, reduced size Microstrip Frequency Selective Surface. The novel design is achieved by cutting some rectangular slots at four sides of a square patch. Compared with conventional square patch Frequency Selective Surface (FSS), this slotted square patch Microstrip FSS can achieve reduction in patch area of 36%. The structure acts like a band pass filter with a resonant frequency 8 GHz. Both theoretical and experimental investigations are done. Theoretical investigation is done by IE3D software. Experimental investigation is performed using standard microwave test bench. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 2820–2821, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22833