Patent ID: 7620380

Claim:
A method for adjusting automatic gain control (AGC) of a radio receiver, the method comprises: establishing, by a primary AGC module, an AGC setting for the radio receiver to produce a primary AGC setting; comparing, by a supervisory AGC module, performance of the radio receiver utilizing the primary AGC setting with a plurality of performance thresholds, at least on of the plurality of performance thresholds corresponding to a radio of wide bandwidth signal strength indication and a narrow bandwidth signal strength indication; and when the performance of the radio receiver utilizing the primary AGC setting compares unfavorable with a first performance threshold of the plurality of performance thresholds, adjusting, by the supervisory AGC module, the primary AGC setting to produce an adjusted AGC setting: wherein the comparing the performance of the radio receiver further comprises: comparing the narrow bandwidth signal indication with a weak signal threshold; when the narrow bandwidth received signal strength indication compares unfavorably with the weak signal threshold, comparing the wide bandwidth received signal strength indication with the narrow bandwidth received signal strength indication; and when the wide bandwidth received signal strength indication is within a tolerance range of the narrow bandwidth received signal strength indication, indicating that the performance of the radio receiver utilizing the primary AGC setting compares unfavorably with the first performance threshold.