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What is the ultimate navigation tool? Was - RDF (radio direction finding) ... do you ?
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:54:51 -0600, Maynard G. Krebbs
wrote: RDF might be fun to play around with out in the deep blue. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't radio waves travel in great circles? If so it might be fun working the great circles out in conjunction with your RDF fixes. The vast majority of RDF fixes are done at ranges of less than 50 miles or so. They become increasingly unreliable as the distance increases for a variety of reasons. When RDFs were still popular they were frequently used at ranges of just a few miles to home in on a breakwater or harbor entrance in the fog. |
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