Transmit and/or receive diversity is achieved using multiple antennas. In
some embodiments, a single transmitter chain within a wireless terminal
is coupled over time to a plurality of transmit antennas. At any given
time, a controllable switching module couples the single transmitter
chain to one the plurality of transmit antennas. Over time, the switching
module couples the output signals from the single transmitter chain to
different transmit antennas. Switching decisions are based upon
predetermined information, dwell information, and/or channel condition
feedback information. Switching is performed on some dwell and/or channel
estimation boundaries. In some OFDM embodiments, each of multiple
transmitter chains is coupled respectively to a different transmit
antenna. Information to be transmitted is mapped to a plurality of tones.
Different subsets of tones are formed for and transmitted through
different transmit chain/antenna sets simultaneously. The balance of
tones allocated to the subsets for each antenna are changed as a function
of predetermined information, dwell information, and/or channel condition
feedback information.