Radio direction finder
Radio direction finder A radio direction finder, or RDF, is a device for finding the direction to a radio source. Due to ...
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List of modern AFV and artillery related terms and acronyms
... US) ACE Armored Combat Earthmover (US) ACLOS Automatic Command Line Of Sight ACRV Armoured Command ... US) AFAS Advanced Field Artillery System AFCS Automatic Fire-Control Systems AFD automatic feeding device AFSV Armoured Fire Support Vehicle ... Ground Forces AGL above ground level AGL Automatic Grenade Launcher AGLS Automatic Gun Laying System AGS Armored Gun ...
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Dictionario Hispanico 001 (Romanica wiki)
... somebody's care a casa · home (direction) a causa · because a causa de ... counter streaming a contrahilo · in the direction of grain a contrapelo · against the ... nowhere else a ninguna parte · nowhere (direction) a nivel · level a nivel estatal ... articulado · jointed coupling acoplamiento automático · automatic coupler acoplamiento capacitivo · capacitive coupling acoplamiento ... · hillock; lofty altímetro · altimeter; height finder altímetro de lectura directa · altimeter ...
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Heliometer
... if the segments are separated in any direction two images of the object viewed will ... be produced; (3) that the most convenient direction of separation for micrometric purposes is to ... by quantities which were independent of the direction of gravity relative to the position angle ... measurement, but which depended solely on the direction of the measured position angle relative to ... the axis of the tube (in the direction of the movable segment) by an ...
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Radiocompass   (translated from German)
Radiocompass Radiocompass, also ADF (AUTOMATIC Direction Finder) or Radio compass is an on-board ... it. Antenna system For the avoidance of direction ambiguities two different antenna types are necessary ... induced. Cross-check antenna (English scythe) The direction, from which the waves come, is ...
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Radio beacon   (translated from Spanish)
... transmitting station of radio that sends of automatic and continuous form signals like aid to ... basically: ADF: Their initials mean in English Automatic Direction Finder, that is to say, automatic spotter of direction. This radio beacon ...
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Almon Strowger
... not clear where his idea of an automatic telephone exchange was originally conceived, but his ... director or a mortician), who invented the automatic telephone exchange and has been described as the father of the automatic telephone exchange. Strowger himself would more likely ... He was apparently motivated to invent an automatic telephone exchange after having difficulties with the ... his invention in 1888, and patented the automatic telephone exchange in 1891. It is ...
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Radar
... that was first suggested as a "ship finder" by Dr. Allen B. DuMont in 1932 ... the electric field is perpendicular to the direction of propagation, and this direction of the electric field is the Polarization ... CFAR (Constant False-Alarm Rate, sometimes called Automatic Gain Control, or AGC) is a method ... end on). The operator could determine the direction to a target by rotating the ...
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Compass   (translated from Russian)
... its northern end is established in the direction to the north magnetic pole, and southern ... the revolving ring of compass the optical finder (fly and pillar) 4 and the indicator ... to some of the ends in the direction of the northern magnetic the pole. Gyrocompass Gyrocompass - instrument, indicating direction on the earth's surface; into its ... compass its indications are connected with the direction to the true geographical (but not ...
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Abbreviation/aviation   (translated from German)
... Fixed Telecommunications network Flight communications network AFWA AUTOMATIC Flight Weather Advisory Automatic flight weather announcement A/G Air/Ground ... for engine start AP/DF Approach and Direction Finding facility APP or App Approach Approach ... Spelling alphabet (aviation; Voice transmission) D/F Direction Finding Direction determination from the airfield by means ...
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