Patent ID: 7190973

Claim:
A method for reconfiguring base station equipment of a sectorized cell site to relieve high call blocking rates in a first, heavily utilized sector, the method comprising: selecting a TCB cabinet housing transmission equipment, the TCB cabinet corresponding to a second sector having less call traffic relative to the first sector, the TCB cabinet having a plurality of transceiver slots; placing a set of first sector transceivers in a first designated set of transceiver slots of the TCB cabinet; placing a set of second sector transceivers in a second designated set of transceiver slots of the TCB cabinet; placing a combiner card having first and second input port pairs in the associated slot of the TCB cabinet; connecting the first input port pair of the combiner card to first sector multicouplers; connecting the second input port pair of the combiner card to second sector multicouplers; and wherein backplane circuitry of the TCB cabinet directs combined uplink signals from the first input port pair to the first designated set of transceiver slots and directs combined uplink signals from the second input port pair to the second designated set of transceiver slots, the first designated set of transceiver slots being odd-numbered slots of the TCB cabinet, the second designated set of transceiver slots being even-numbered slots of the TCB cabinet, the odd-numbered and even-numbered slots utilizing separate paths of the backplane circuitry of the TCB cabinet so as to prevent signals of the transceivers placed in the odd-numbered slots from mixing with signals of the transceivers placed in the even-numbered slots.