automatic direction finder
- automatic direction finder
Equipment to determine the direction from which an electromagnetic signal is being generated. It can either be airborne or ground-based equipment. It operates in medium or low frequencies, consists of basically a loop aerial, and gives the null position of the transmitter. To remove 180° ambiguity, a sense aerial is used. The commonest air-interpreted ADF is the one that utilizes a ground-based transmitting station called an
NDB (
nondirectional beacon).
Aviation dictionary.
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automatic direction finder — noun a radio navigation aid. Abbrev.: ADF …
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