There is provided a receiving apparatus receiving and processing spread spectrum radio signals comprising a plurality of antenna branches, a selective combiner circuit, an evaluation circuit and a control circuit. Each antenna branch is configured to be switched between active and inactive. The evaluation circuit evaluates signals demodulated by each antenna branch and combined by the selective combiner. The control circuit switches off an antenna branch of lower quality of received signals in a case where a figure-of-merit of the selective-combined signal is satisfactory so that power consumption may be reduced.