MEASUREMENT OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A RADIO CHANNEL OTHER THAN THE ESTABLISHED CHANNEL

摘要

A radio telephone for communicating in a spreadspectrum communication system having a plurality of radio channels of different frequencies; the radio telephone comprising communication means for establishing over one of said radio channels a communication link over which is communicated data and associated error correction data; a receiver operable to alternatively receive for a period a radio channel other than the established channel and processing means for measuring the radio signal characteristics of the other channel; the processing means being operable to use error correction data received over the established communication link to calculate the contents of the established communication link data of the radio channel signal during the period.