Patent ID: 8515378

Claim:
A method of conditioning an RF signal received by a single antenna to mitigate a multi-path effect on the RF signal prior to providing a conditioned signal to a receiver, said method comprising the steps of: splitting the RF signal received by the single antenna into a first non-phase shifted signal and a second non-phase shifted signal; shifting the phase of the second non-phase shifted signal to produce a first phase shifted signal; combining the first non-phase shifted signal and phase shifted signal to produce a first conditioned signal; determining and recording a quality of the first conditioned signal; shifting the phase of the second non-phase shifted signal to produce a second phase shifted signal different from the first phase shifted signal; combining the first non-phase shifted signal and the second phase shifted signal to produce a second conditioned signal; determining and recording a quality of the second conditioned signal; comparing the quality of the first conditioned signal and the second conditioned signal to determine which of the conditioned signals has a highest quality; and providing the conditioned signal determined to have the highest quality to the receiver.