suitable replacements for the stations bs 1 and bs 2 if the connection to the latter were to be interrupted the candidate stations are in each case shown as semi solid black dots whereas the weakest station bs 5 is shown by an unshaded circle in the diagram while the mobile terminal is moving the strength ratios of the individual stations may shift in relation to one another if for example the receive signal from bs 3 becomes stronger than that from bs 2 bs 2 is excluded from the active set and is replaced by bs 3 to avoid having to change the composition of the active set too frequently in the event of substantially changing receive conditions a hysteresis is provided whereby receive signals are replaced by one another only if the receive signal of the station which is getting stronger is for example 1 db stronger than that of the station which is getting weaker in this way it is ensured in the case of most applications that the active set constantly contains base stations with adequately high transmission quality so that the occasional exclusion of a station from the active set and its replacement by a differentstation does not adversely affect the communication of the mobile terminal if the quality of transmission between the mobile terminal and the stations of the active set is generally poor situations may easily arise in which within a time interval between two transmission quality checks the connection to all stations of.