radio compass
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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
The resulting position tallied with that indicated by the radio compass.
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
This one was to be most casual�a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared to the 81-hr.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quickly he manipulated the coil of his radio compass.
From Curlie Carson Listens In by Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson)
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