direction finder

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

There three months ago a Pan American airport crew set up a base, installed a direction finder in an abandoned mission.

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

Fighting his way through the tangled shrubbery, he kept his eyes constantly on the needle of the magnetic compass he had wrenched from the direction finder.

From Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various