Patent ID: 7376446

Claim:
A base station for a mobile communications system, said base station comprising: an antenna; a triplexer connected to one end of a transmission line, an other end of said transmission line being coupled to said antenna, said triplexer separating an uplink signal from a duplexed signal on said transmission line and passing a downlink signal to said duplexed signal, said downlink signal and said uplink signal both comprising a sub-band pair of signals separated by a third sub-band, each sub-band being a sub-band of a given frequency bandwidth; a duplexer/combiner connected to said triplexer and receiving said uplink signal, said duplexer/combiner providing a first downlink signal to said triplexer in one of said sub-band pair; and a combiner connected to said duplexer/combiner and said triplexer, said combiner receiving incoming receive signals from said duplexer/combiner and providing a second uplink signal to said triplexer in the other of said sub-band pair.