The present invention provides a method of calibrating base station
comprising a plurality of antennas and operating in an Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode.
One embodiment of the method includes a method of calibrating a base
station comprising a plurality of antennas for beamsteering forward link
traffic data to a target mobile in a TDD wireless communication system.
Each antenna is connected to a corresponding radio via a transmit/receive
switch that is configured to switch between a receive path and a transmit
path. The method includes transmitting a first signal from a first radio
via a first cross-over cable coupled to the first radio and a second
radio such that the first signal is received by the second radio. The
method also includes transmitting a second signal from the second radio
via a second cross-over cable coupled between the first and second radios
such that the second signal is received by the first radio. The method
further includes determining, based on at least one of the first or
second signals, a relative weight that can be applied to traffic signals
transmitted from the second radio.