A radio communication apparatus includes: a transmission unit for transmitting a radio wave; and a reception unit for receiving a radio wave and demodulating the same, the reception unit including: an analog filter provided in a first stage of the reception unit; a digital filter provided in a second stage of the reception unit so as to compensate a characteristic of the analog filter by having a filter characteristic of the digital filter varied by varying a tap factor; a test signal generation unit for supplying a test signal to the reception unit; an error state detection unit for detecting an error based on a digital demodulated signal derived from the test signal; and a tap factor setting unit for temporarily setting a tap factor of the digital filter that reduces a level of the error. Supplying of the test signal and detecting of the error are repeated until a target tap factor that minimizes the error is determined, whereupon the target tap factor is set in the digital filter.