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Use of Direction Finding at Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

F. P. Best
F. P. Best
Affiliation:
(Marconi International Marine Co., Ltd.)
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Extract

Direction finding is the oldest, simplest, and probably most reliable radio aid yet offered to the mariner. In some ways it may be likened to a magnetic compass and, if its range is very much smaller, it has the inestimable advantage over a compass of giving bearings on a very large number of stations instead of one only. It is the only navigational aid, other than radar, in which the performance is controlled by the shipborne installation and is not subject to technical failures which may occur on land-based transmitters.

Type
Marine Radio Position Fixing Systems
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 1950 , pp. 332 - 335
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1950

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