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    High-frequency direction finding, usually known by its abbreviation HF/DF or nickname huff-duff, is a type of radio direction finder (RDF) introduced...
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    Direction finding (DF), radio direction finding (RDF), or radiogoniometry is the use of radio waves to determine the direction to a radio source. The source...
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    enabled effective high frequency (HF) radio direction finding systems to be installed on Royal Navy convoy escort ships. Such direction finding systems were...
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    connecting the HF transceiver. High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program High-frequency direction finding High Frequency Internet Protocol Radio propagation...
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  • deployment of high-frequency direction finding by the United States Navy during the Second World War. High-frequency direction finding (known as huff-duff...
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    important developments was ship-borne direction-finding radio equipment, known as HF/DF (high-frequency direction-finding, or Huff-Duff), which started to...
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  • Frobisher Bay, also known as NRS Frobisher Bay, was a military high-frequency direction-finding station located on Baffin Island at what is now Iqaluit, Nunavut...
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    was not always able to read the U-boat Enigma traffic. But high-frequency direction finding ("huff-duff") was still able to detect U-boats by analysis...
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  • outside Delhi. Specially constructed Y stations undertook high-frequency direction finding (D/F) of wireless transmissions. This became particularly important...
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  • Watson-Watt introduced the next major advance in direction finding, the high-frequency direction finding system, or HF/DF, also nicknamed "huff-duff". HF/DF...
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  • for more than two years. Three days into the "Black Pit", high-frequency direction finding intercepts a German transmission and Greyhound identifies a...
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    shipping, improved convoy and anti-submarine tactics such as high-frequency direction finding and the Hedgehog anti-submarine system began to take a toll...
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  • Pip-squeak (category Radio direction finding)
    send out a 1 kHz tone which was picked up by ground-based high-frequency direction finding (HFDF, "huff-duff") receivers. Using three HFDF measurements...
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    Midway Island, which was responsible for operating the AN/GRD-6 High-Frequency Direction Finding (HFDF) system. This system was integral to both the Eastern...
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  • intelligence (ELINT) High-frequency direction finding (nicknamed huff-duff) is the common name for a type of radio direction finding employed especially...
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    World War II. The advances in signals intelligence such as high-frequency direction finding, in cryptological intelligence such as Ultra, and in detection...
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    Sonar was installed on a number of ships along with radar and high-frequency direction finding ("Huff-Duff") to detect surfaced submarines. While sonar was...
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    Station in Florida. In 1939 Ascension became important as a high-frequency direction finding radio station covering trade routes. Wideawake Airfield (named...
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    Robert Watson-Watt (category People educated at Brechin High School)
    This led to the 1920s development of a system later known as high-frequency direction finding (HFDF or "huff-duff"). Although well publicized at the time...
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    Furthermore, replies from the boats enabled the Allies to use High-frequency direction finding (HF/DF, called "Huff-Duff") to locate a U-boat using its radio...
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    of its wiring. In addition, the Americans saw the British's high-frequency direction finding (HF/DF) system, which allowed the location of radio broadcasts...
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    communications station at RCAF Station Gander, Its main task was high-frequency direction finding (HFDF) and communications monitoring of German U-boat radio...
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    began searching for U-boats in the area in late May, using high-frequency direction-finding fixes ("huff-duff") and air and surface reconnaissance. At...
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    government through the duration of the war for fear of espionage. A High-frequency direction finding (HFDF) station was established here by the Navy during the...
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    direction finding (ARDF, also known as radio orienteering, radio fox hunting and radiosport) is an amateur racing sport that combines radio direction...
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    reopened in 1960, forming part of the United States Navy global High Frequency Direction Finding (HFDF) network, used to track various targets around the world...
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  • the Regia Marina. Operational from 1942 to 1943. H.F. D/F (High Frequency Direction Finding). – provided a radio position fix for the RAF up to 100 miles...
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    centimeter-wavelength radar. None of the ships carried HF/DF high-frequency direction finding sets. As western Atlantic coastal convoys brought an end to...
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    system using multilateration developed in the Czech Republic High-frequency direction finding - a similar system used by the English during world war 2 to...
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    Type 272 or Type 277 surface search radar was fitted, as was high-frequency direction finding (HF/DF) gear. The ships' sonar outfit was Type 145 and Type...
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