  Mobile phone operators have begun the roll-out of 5G networks, deploying
massive MIMO base stations. Commercial product ranges start with 16 independent
radio chains connected to a large-scale antenna system to exploit both channel
hardening and favourable propagation in order to obtain increased spectral
efficiency. In this work, the cumulative distribution function describing the
gain for large-scale antenna systems considering spatial and spectral diversity
is evaluated empirically in terms of a fading margin and compared to an
analytical maximum diversity reference system. This allows for a simple
investigation of the trade-off between deployment size and exploitation of
channel hardening. For the considered site-specific measurement data, little
additional diversity is harvested with systems larger than 32 antenna elements.
