Patent ID: 7099415

Claim:
A receiver, comprising: first and second antennas for receiving first and second broadcast wave signals respectively carrying thereon first and second information sinnals; first and second signal amplifiers for respectively amplifying the broadcast wave signals that have been respectively received by said first and second antennas, said second signal amplifier having a lower noise figure than said first signal amplifier; a signal superposing part for superposing the amplified signals that have been amplified by said signal amplifiers to produce an output signal; a demodulating/reproducing part for demodulating the output signal from said signal superposing part and for reproducing the first and second information signals included in said output signal; and a control part for detecting deterioration in qualities of the respective ones of the reproduced first and second information signals and for performing a final control operation to disable said first amplifier when it is determined that both of said first and second information signals are deteriorated in their qualities.