A method of transmitting data from a user terminal to a base station using a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) scheme with a plurality of redundancy versions of said data, each of the redundancy versions (RV) indicating a transmission start position of a data block in a circular buffer is disclosed. For each retransmission, the redundancy version to be used by considering the previously used redundancy version and a predetermined sequence is determined. Within one sequence, at least two redundancy versions following each other have non consecutive start positions.