are very close to one another such as the distance between the hypothesized delays t 1 and t 4 depicted in fig8 with the hypothesized delay t 2 from previous examples again being illustrated for the purpose of showing the relative distance between the hypothesized delays t 1 and t 4 the techniques described herein will not be able to separate them but in this case the rake receiver will not require separation because the resolution of the signal is coarser than the difference between the delays when the delays are relatively close to one another but not too close to resolve the techniques described herein increase the possibility for resolving the different delays by making use of the fact that because of fading not all delays have a strong contribution to the signal at all times the invention has been described with reference to a particular embodiment however it will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that it is possible to embody the invention in specific forms other than those of the preferred embodiment described above this may be done without departing from the spirit of the invention for example in some alternative embodiments the delay resolution techniques described herein can be turned on or off based on the distance between the hypothesized delays this function can be combined with the strategy in the fade detector furthermore in order to facilitate an understanding of the invention only the two path case has been illustrated however the inventive techniques described herein can easily be generalized to any number of paths having delays that are close to one another this can be accomplished by providing a new set of fading detectors 305 and accumulators 309 311 313 for each pair of multipaths still further the.