This parameter specifies whether a cell supports the antenna hopping function.

In a GSM cell, the frequency, frame number, system information, and paging group are transmitted on the BCCH of the main BCCH TRX. If the MS is in an unfavorable position or the antenna for the main BCCH TRX is faulty, then the MS cannot receive the broadcast control messages from the main BCCH TRX properly. The antenna hopping function enables the data on all the timeslots of the BCCH TRX to be transmitted on the antennas of all the TRXs in the cell in turn. Thus the quality of the BCCH TRX data received by the MS is improved and the network performance is enhanced. Only the double-transceiver BTS can be configured with the antenna hopping function
Antenna hopping is a feature in which the Tx/Rx is passed through all the available antenna paths in a sector. No frequency is changed during antenna hopping. This helps improve performance by providing spatial diversity