A method and apparatus for providing hopped delay diversity for multiple antenna transmissions. In the method and apparatus, an input symbol stream is offset in time by M symbol periods to generate or offset symbol stream. The offset input stream may be offset so as to lead or lag the original input symbol stream. The original input symbol stream is then transmitted on a first set of N antennas and the offset input symbol stream is transmitted on a second set of N antennas, with transmit diversity techniques applied to the transmissions from the first and second set of N antennas.