Radio communication device and transmission power control method

摘要

A radio communication device has a first variable power amplifier 19 and a second variable power amplifier 20 and performs gain control of the variable power amplifiers 19 and 20 by a variable power amplifier control section 27 for controlling transmission power of the radio communication device. At this time, the variable power amplifiers 19 and 20 are switched on and off under the control of a switch control section 25 in response to the theoretical value of transmission power updated based on the transmission power of the radio communication device detected by a transmission power detection section 24 or a transmission power control bit extracted by a base band signal processing section 16 for prolonging the time period over which the variable power amplifier 19 or 20 is off.