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direction finder

n. radio; determines the direction of incoming radio waves

Usage examples of "direction finder".

Harman released one of the handgrips long enough to activate the direction finder on his palm.

Choose your own course but make sure to watch your automatic direction finder all the time.

Why don't we get a sight on the tube with the direction finder, and just edge up on her?

What he wanted done was a little complicated when it came to explaining it to distant operators, but finally he had copied compass bearings, and drawn on his own chart the bearing line taken by the distant direction finder—.

How the coins of light had flashed out from it before they flew upward, dazzling man and horse so that the direction finder was lost?

Parks returned to his direction finder, expecting that the medic would treat the men.

The radio direction finder indicated that the Stockholm was more than two miles north of the captains course.