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Abstract

A CDMA mobile communication system, which produces a time for monitoring peripheral base stations using different radio frequencies for carrying out hand-off between base stations using different radio frequencies without momentary cutoff of communication. A mobile station (504) of the CDMA mobile communication system discontinues error correction decoding on reception signal, outputs a user data which is not error correction decoded and, during the non-reception time in the blank time, changes over a reception frequency to a radio frequency of a neighboring base station monitor a reception level of the neighboring base station. During a hand-off period between a base station under communication (502) and a new base station (503) which differ in used frequency, the base station under communication and the new base station transmit only a user data portion, but do not transmit transmission signal in a transmission period for transmitting an error correction coding check bits. The mobile station (504) receives and demodulates the transmission signal of the base station under communication and, during an error correction coding check bit transmission period, changes over a frequency of a receiver to the frequency of the new base station to receive and demodulate the transmission signal of the new base station.

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