signal based on pilot signal sampling prior to the timing offset and subsequent to the timing offset the error signals are averaged and used by a time tracking loop to track the incoming signal in another embodiment the demodulating elements for the signal from each base station antenna independently time track the signals with different timing offsets for each finger the preferred embodiment depends on the method used by the base station to multiplex the data onto multiple transmit antennas application_number US 78953504 A description the present invention provides a mobile station with the ability to time track received signals in an area where the base stations transmit using antenna diversity this is accomplished by either choosing the timing offset of the rake receiver fingers based on an average timing error or allowing the demodulating elements of the receiver to independently time track the signals from each antenna fig4 illustrates a block diagram of a receiver of the present invention this embodiment works best in a space time spreading environment since it uses the same estimate for u03c4 in all the fingers while the transmitted signals are substantially similar they are different in that different spreading sequences are used on the data during the modulation process in order to keep the signals from interfering with each other during transmission for purposes of clarity the receiver of fig4 is subsequently described.