A wireless communication system wherein a simple structure is used to maintain, even under a quasi-static fading environment of wireless communication, the transmission quality of a wireless line used between particular radio stations, while reducing the influence of radio wave interference with other radio stations using the same frequency band, and further preventing information from leaking to other radio stations. A transmitter station (101) selects, based on quality information of a transmission path (104), an optimum one of a plurality of antennas to transmit a packet from the selected antenna to a receiver station (102). The receiver station (102) uses an antenna, selected from among a plurality of antennas, to receive the packet from the transmitter station (101), and switches from the currently selected antenna to another one. Then, the receiver station (102) transmits, from the other antenna, a response packet, which is responsive to the received packet, to the transmitter station (101). The transmitter station (101) uses the plurality of antennas to receive the response packet, and selects, as a packet transmission antenna, an antenna, which exhibits the best reception quality, to transmit a packet from the selected antenna to the receiver station (102). This process is repeated hereafter.