direction finder

a device for finding out the direction from which radio waves or signals are coming, as a loop antenna that can be rotated freely on a vertical axis

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noun Abbr. DF

A device for determining the source of a transmitted signal, consisting mainly of a radio receiver and a coiled rotating antenna.

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