radio compass
Example Sentences
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But radio compass bearings were relatively new navigational aids at the time and not trusted by veteran mariners.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2019
It is also better for radio compass work.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was to be his job, to pick up weather signals midair; to study the air tides, take the radio compass bearings.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the airway between Dayton, Ohio, and Moundsville, W. Va., the Army Air Service has installed a "radio compass," with electric oscillations flashing between the towers at either end of the airway.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of these the 750 wave is reserved for government stations such as radio compass stations, etc.;
From Walter and the Wireless by Stecher, William F. (William Frederick)
