Patent ID: 7747232

Claim:
A method for operating a radio reception system that includes a plurality of receivers assigned to a common output device, where a first one of the receivers is designated as an audio receiver and is tuned to a frequency of a radio transmitter having a transmitter identifier code and outputs a signal received from the radio transmitter to the output device, and where a second one of the receivers is designated as a search receiver, the method comprising: scanning the search receiver through its frequency band for a frequency signal value associated with the radio transmitter and determining a measure of the signal strength of the frequency signal value; comparing the signal strength of the signal received by the search receiver and the signal strength of the signal received by the audio receiver; tuning the second receiver to the frequency signal value if the measure of the signal strength of the frequency signal value is better than the measure of the signal strength associated with the current signal received by the second receiver, or if its quality minus a hysteresis value is better than that of currently used frequency such that the second receiver is now designated the audio receiver and assumes the operation thereof and the first receiver is now designated the search receiver and assumes the operation thereof; and repeating the steps of scanning, comparing and tuning.