At 09:52 PM 11/11/2005, ersmar at comcast.net wrote: >Can you say SteppIR? > >73 de >Gene Smar AD3F Indeed.. I would think that the patent will have to be drawn extremely narrowly, since the basic idea of adjusting the length of an antenna to tune it has been around since at least the 60s (There's a paper describing a submarine antenna that does this).