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Definition of Radio compass
1. Noun. A direction finder that gives a bearing by determining the direction of incoming radio signals.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Radio Compass
Literary usage of Radio compass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Radio Engineering Principles by Henri Lauer, Harry Leonard Brown (1919)
"Airplane radio compass.-—Both the single loop and double loop goniometers described
above, when used as a direction finder or radio compass were shown to ..."
2. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1919)
"With the completion of a series of radio compass stations now in process of ...
radio compass stations are now being installed at Tatoosh, Dungeness and a ..."
3. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1921)
"THE radio compass The radio compass is an instrument of recent ... radio compass
Stations have been established by many of the important maritime Powers and ..."
4. Experimental Wireless Stations: Their Theory, Design, Construction and by Philip E. Edelman (1922)
"... Long Distance Set; Principle of Coil Action; Directional Effects of Coils;
Types and Construction; radio compass. 2. Sub-surface Radio; Antenna Buried ..."
5. The Book of Radio: A Complete, Simple Explanation of Radio Reception and by Charles William Taussig (1922)
"... of Standards on radio direction finding—radio compass may be located either
on shipboard or on shore—How the steamship Alaska would have been saved, ..."
6. The Roswell Report: Fact Vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert by Richard L. Weaver (1997)
"When aircraft are used to follow and position the balloon, the use of a radio-compass
is found to be feasible, using the AK-1 transmitter at a frequency ..."
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