A fixed station and an on-board apparatus are constructed to carry out a short range communication. A signal processing unit is connected to the first and second transmitting and receiving units. The wound dressing is disposed on or adjacent the spreading portion. The sign bit and the carry bit may be used to select one of three possible upper-order bit value combinations of the branch target address. The UE may estimate SINRs of multiple transport blocks based on POVSF, determine CQI indices for the transport blocks based on the SINRs, and send the CQI indices to a Node B. According to the invention at least one dedicated receive coil is fixedly attached to the housing.