direction finder

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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

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

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

Said the pilot: "They must have had good equipment, including a direction finder, to pick up my transmission that quickly."

From Time Magazine Archive

Inside the rifle was a tiny radar direction finder.

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