Fuente: WIPO "rice" A dual antenna transmitter includes a diversity encoding module that receives a data stream and provides a pair of encoded data streams selected to cause generation of overlapping symbols that provide substantially constant signal power to a receiver when the first and second antennas are unobstructed from the receiver. The diversity encoding module may compensate for the state retention of standard modulators thereby enabling the implementation of the Alamouti transmit diversity scheme. A wireless receiver capable of receiving data transmitted from the aforementioned transmitter includes a metric extraction module that repetitively extracts a metric from a transmitted signal at a selected rate to provide a first and a second metric stream, the first metric stream comprising data that is time offset from data in the second metric stream, the time offset corresponding to a differential time delay to the receiver for symbols emitted from the transmitter antennas.