| | Terminal station of a radio communication network capable of effectively using radio channels assigned to the network - Patent 4882766 |
 | | The terminal station is communicable with first and second ones of the base stations that have, in relation to the terminal station, a predetermined degree of priority and a lesser degree of priority lower than the predetermined degree, respectively, and that have first and second ones of the radio channels, respectively. |
 | | When the terminal station 14 is at a certain point of the common service area, the priority is the highest for the base station whose down-link radio frequency signal reaches the terminal station 14 with the strongest electric field intensity. |
 | | A terminal station as claimed in claim 1, further comprising alternately selecting means coupled to said first and said second monitoring means and responsive to the absence of said internal signal for alternately selecting said first and said second monitoring means while said main radio channel is busy. |
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