Patent ID: 8660165

Claim:
A repeater for repeating signals between multiple sources, the repeater comprising: a donor antenna and a coverage antenna for transceiving signals that are repeated between the multiple sources; an amplification circuit positioned between donor and coverage antennas for amplifying the repeated signals, the amplification circuit having a variable gain; a set of possible codes for the repeater, the set representing the codes that would exist within spread spectrum signals that are handled by the repeater; a detection circuit operable to correlate a code obtained from an uplink signal to the repeater with the set of possible codes for spread spectrum signals that are handled by the repeater and operable for using the correlation in order to detect the existence of a spread spectrum uplink signal; the amplification circuit operably coupled with the detection circuit and operating to vary the gain of the amplification circuit based upon the correlation and the detection of a spread spectrum uplink signal.