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    Direction finding (DF), or radio direction finding (RDF), is the use of radio waves to determine the direction to a radio source. The source may be a cooperating...
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    (NW). The intermediate direction of every set of intercardinal and cardinal direction is called a secondary intercardinal direction. These eight shortest...
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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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    High-frequency direction finding, usually known by its abbreviation HF/DF or nickname huff-duff, is a type of radio direction finder (RDF) introduced in...
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  • Doppler radio direction finding, also known as Doppler DF, is a radio direction finding method that generates accurate bearing information with a minimum...
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    cover for the work, meaning Range and Direction Finding but suggesting the already well-known Radio Direction Finding. Late in 1935, responding to Lindemann's...
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    Round, working for Marconi, began carrying out experiments with direction-finding radio equipment for the army in France in 1915. By May 1915, the Admiralty...
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    Aliasing has changed its apparent frequency of rotation. A reversal of direction can be described as a negative frequency. Temporal aliasing frequencies...
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  • Sometimes both functions were operated at the same site, with the direction finding (D/F) hut being a few hundred metres from the main interception building...
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    azimuthal direction a radio signal was coming from in order to find the location of the radio transmitter; a process called radio direction finding. Prior...
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    Classification) is an algorithm used for frequency estimation and radio direction finding. In many practical signal processing problems, the objective is to...
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    suitable, even for Morse code sources, and that was the task of radio direction finding, RDF. The regenerative system was highly non-linear, amplifying any...
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    navigation; do radio direction finding (RDF) if Earhart used her 500 kHz transmitter; use an experimental high-frequency direction finder for Earhart's...
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  • Sundial#Using a sundial as a compass. Astronomy provides a method for finding direction at night. All the stars appear to lie on the imaginary celestial sphere...
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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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    signal vanishes) which gives a tiny antenna for exceedingly accurate direction-finding, better than most moderately large antennas, and as good as many huge...
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  • systems use direction finding or triangulation of transmitter signals radiated by the mobile. This is sometimes called radio direction finding or RDF. The...
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    improved convoy and anti-submarine tactics such as high-frequency direction finding and the Hedgehog anti-submarine system began to take a toll on the...
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  • experiments with direction finding radio equipment for the army in France in 1915. Hall instructed him to build a direction finding system for the navy...
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    (IARU) sanctions the following orienteering sport: Amateur radio direction finding (Radio orienteering or ARDF) [including variants Fox Oring and Radio...
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    British and German interception services began to experiment with direction-finding radio equipment in the start of 1915. Captain Round, working for Marconi...
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  • Bondarenko and V.I. Slyusar. "Influence of jitter in ADC on precision of direction-finding by digital antenna arrays. // Radioelectronics and Communications...
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    pp. 99–177. Kayton, Fried 1977, p.116 "An Introduction to Radio Direction Finding". Cognitive Ecology. October 22, 2021. Retrieved April 4, 2024. Murphy...
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  • Finding Nemo is a 2003 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Andrew...
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    or a wullenweber, is a large circular antenna array used for radio direction finding. They are used by military and government agencies to triangulate...
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    directions for aircraft or ships to use for radio direction finding. Aircraft use automatic direction finder (ADF) receivers which use a directional antenna...
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  • used until the end of the war Aware of the danger presented by radio direction finding (RDF), the Kriegsmarine developed various systems to speed up broadcast...
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    "Operational Notes on Non-Directional Beacons (NDB) and Associated Automatic Direction Finding (ADF)" (PDF). Government of Australia. Archived from the original...
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  • championships. Radiosport also can refer to the sport of amateur radio direction finding (ARDF). Although they represent a broad range of amateur radio interests...
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    rescue. As Search and Rescue approach the search areas, they use Direction Finding (DF) equipment to locate the beacon using the 121.5 MHz homing signal...
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