In practice, the Carrier 1 will suffer some attenuation due to transmission characteristics of the connection. However, all direct connections between an RRH and an antenna system are subject to this type of characteristic attenuation. Further, although the characteristic attenuation of a direct connection may depend on the carrier frequency, the differences due to frequency dependence will typically be small compared with attenuation due to insertion loss caused by one or more combiners in the RF path. Thus, for the purposes of the present discussion, characteristic attenuation is neglected. Also, for the sake of brevity in