To suppress effects produced on other terminals as much as possible, while
obtaining the advantage of soft-combining. A multicarrier receiving
apparatus that receives a packet comprised of at least a propagation path
estimation symbol and a scrambled information symbol to demodulate, and
has propagation path estimating sections 3-a and 3-b that respectively
estimate propagation paths of radio signals transmitted from a plurality
of transmission antennas, scramble multiplying sections 5-a and 5-b that
respectively perform the same scrambling on propagation path estimation
values output from the propagation path estimating sections 3-a and 3-b
as scrambling provided in the information symbol on the transmission
antennas sides, an adding section 3-c that adds scrambled propagation
path estimation values, and a propagation path compensating section 7
that performs propagation path compensation of the information symbol
included in the received packet using a signal output from the adding
section 3-c.