Implications, potential uses, and facilities of multiple channel radio units such as the inexpensive, short range, high data-rate, wideband units, and the far longer ranged, but lower speed, narrowband units are required to be examined. It is required to analyze the ability of the radio to operate on one of a range of pre-programmed channel frequencies, usually generated by a phase locked frequency synthesizer. Several links can operate simultaneously in the same area, and there are a number of choices available in making good use of the multi-channel function. Some of them include factory set-up of operating channel frequency to customer order, manual channel selection, automatic channel selection. Automatic channel selection procedure requires the application's processor to command the radio module to operate on a given channel at power-on. More sophisticated techniques include forms of unoccupied channel detection and interference, right up to true frequency hopping methods.