in time one group of the trxs try group a 216 accesses a particular antenna referring now to the exemplary embodiment shown the bts 185 implements an antenna hopping scheme with full redundancy triggered by detection of faults or equipment unavailability the functional components include at least two antennas 200 in the exemplary embodiment the pair of antennas 200 u2014 consisting of antenna a 201 and antenna b 202 u2014 transmits and receives signals for each sector served by the bts 185 each of the antennas 200 transmits signals that have been amplified by an mcpa 205 although each mcpa 205 may be an identical device for purposes of clarity the mcpa 205 associated with antenna a 201 will be referred to as mcpa a 206 and the mcpa 205 associated with antenna b 202 will be referred to as mcpa b 207 the mcpas 205 amplify signals that have been combined and optimally routed by a tdr controller 210 the tdr controller 210 is a device or group of devices that preferably perform the following functions fault detection and fault remediation through recombination and rerouting of carrier signals with reference to fig4 the tdr controller 210 includes a processor 212 a fault detector 235 at least one recombiner 250 and a switching mechanism 255 the processor 212 may be independent of or integral to the central processing unit cpu 257 of the bts 185 a function of the processor 212 is to control the operation of the switching mechanism 255 in response to instructions to implement or terminate fault remediation in addition in certain embodiments the processor 212 also functions to determine whether remediation is necessary alternatively the determination whether remediation is necessary can be made at the bsc 180 logical connections for the communication of switching instructions and.