Detecting signal carriers of multiple types of signals in radio frequency input for amplification

A signal detector for use with an amplifier to amplify an incoming radio frequency input including at least one type of spread spectrum signal for voice and data, the signal detector comprising:

• detection circuitry to identify at least two statistical characteristics of said at least one type of spread spectrum signal and detect frequency components of said incoming radio frequency input;
• and
• a detector coupled to said detection circuitry for determining an indication of a signal characteristic of said at least one type of spread spectrum signal based on said frequency components to distinguish between said voice and data.

A signal detector, wherein said detector comprises:

• a look-up-table;
• and
• a storage coupled to said look-up-table to store instructions for detecting a peak to average ratio of said one or more of spread spectrum signals by minimizing a sum of square errors parameter and maximizing a residual parameter, analyzing a given minimum number of sampling points, detecting a Guassian signal, optimizing said amplifier based on said Guassian signal, and forming one or more curve fitting models based on said combination of one or more carriers.