direction finder

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One involved Noonan doing celestial navigation; the other, her use of a radio “bearing” direction finder.

From Forbes • Nov. 10, 2014

Why would Earhart start out on such a hazardous journey without knowing how to operate her aircraft’s radio direction finder to the nth degree?

From Forbes • Nov. 10, 2014

In testing, the loud horn and red LED on the direction finder pointed us directly back within feet of the victim.

From Time Magazine Archive

The positions of distress calls from boats that don�t have DSC capable radios can be determined by triangulating the automatic direction finder bearings from all of the antennas receiving the signal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inside the rifle was a tiny radar direction finder.

From On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Glanzman, Louis