A base station transmitter for a CDMA communication system which includes a superframe period of a sync channel, a plurality of first sync channel frames segmented from the superframe period, the first sync channel frames each having a first period, and a plurality of second sync channel frames segmented from the first sync channel frames, the second sync channel frames each having a second period, wherein sync channel signals are transmitted through the second sync channel frames. The base station transmitter comprises a circuit for generating the sync channel signals; and a channel spreader for channel spreading a sync channel signal in a leading sync channel frame out of the second sync channel frames in said each first sync channel frame with a first orthogonal code, and channel spreading sync channel signals in the remaining sync channel frames with a second orthogonal code.