Patent ID: 7116959

Claim:
A receiver selection system that provides an output signal selected from at least first and second radio receivers, the selection system comprising: a comparator that receives a first control signal from one of the radio receivers and a second control signal from another of the radio receivers, and determines which of the control signals has the lowest level value and provides a selection signal indicative of the selected control signal; and a switching element responsive to the selection signal, which receives a first data signal from the first radio receiver and a second data signal from the second radio receiver, and based upon the state of the selection signal selects as the output signal either the first data signal or the second data signal, where the first control signal is indicative of the amount of gain applied by first automatic gain control circuitry of the first radio receiver to create the first data signal, and the second control signal is indicative of the amount of gain applied by second automatic gain control circuitry of the second radio receiver to create the second data signal.