A single antenna may be powered to illuminate or transmit to a receiver such as an RFID tag. That tag may then provide a responsive signal to a plurality of antennas, each of which are active. The signals from those antennas may be analyzed to determine which signal has the highest quality. This may be used to select a particular signal for future analysis or to select a particular antenna for use as both a transmission and reception antenna for future operations. For example, the antenna which provides the strongest signal may be utilized to further illuminate a given RFID tag.