Direction finding
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direction-finding-178-9750089
title:
Direction finding
text:
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 radio transmitter or may be an inadvertant source, a naturally-occurring radio source, or an illicit or enemy system. Radio direction finding differs from radar in that only the direction is determined by any one receiver; a radar system usually also gives a distance to the object of interest, as well as direction. By triangulation, the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Measurement of the direction from which a received signal was transmitted
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction_finding
date created:
2004-07-14T04:53:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T20:22:20Z
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