The invention relates to a base station for a radio communications network. In order to enable a simple enhancement of the estimation of parameters of uplink signals, it is proposed that the base station comprises a phasing network (11) for forming beams for fixed reception angles out of received signals provided by a receive antenna array; means (13) for determining the minimum deviation between a distribution indicative of the signal strengths of at least some of the formed beams and a plurality of pre-calculated distributions each corresponding to a different value of at least one specific parameter of the received signals; and means (13) for estimating the value of the at least one parameter in the uplink according to the minimum deviation. The invention equally relates to a method comprising the corresponding steps and to a base station module of a base station comprising corresponding means for determining the minimum deviation.