[Milsurplus] More FCC foolishness

[J. Forster]

The further you get away from the DF station the larger the uncertainty.

arc = radius x angle.

The search triangle area grows as the square of the distance.

-John

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> de WB2CPN
> You don't DF with only one receiver unless you're within
> yards of the transmitter.  Real DF is done with three DF
> stations.  The plot will produce a triangle.  There are two
> ways to reduce the triangle to a point, and all this is
> not new.   Most DF I've seen, or done, is guiding an
> aircraft to the DF station, crooked as the path may turn
> out to be.
> 73  Clete
>
>
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