volume and adjacent to said antenna radiator the steering conductor attached to a second active element 113 for varying a current mode thereon the antenna radiator is configured and the steering conductor is adjusted in length and positioned in relation to the antenna radiator to tune the frequency response of the antenna radiator to provide for reception of signals in one or multiple cellular or communication frequency bands and provide multiple radiation modes within the one or multiple frequency bands wherein pilot signals from two or more base stations are received with the multimode antenna multiple radiation modes are used to measure the pilot signals and the received power level of the pilot signals for multiple modes are measured and stored in memory in a microprocessor or other memory located on the mobile device that the multimode antenna is connected to the receive signal levels are compared to a data base of stored radiation patterns for the multiple modes and a measure of angle of arrival of the pilot signals are performed an intersection of rays or lines parallel to the angle of arrival of two or more pilot signals are used to determine a location fix in another embodiment a multimode antenna includes a tunable component with two or more tuning states being connected to the steering conductor to alter the reactance of the steering conductor the tunable component is adjusted to steer the null or low signal region and pilot signals are monitored as the null of.