radio navigation
Noun
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radio navigation (uncountable)
Alternative form of radionavigation
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By January 1, 1944 the airfield was abandoned. citation LORAN Station Baker LORAN radio navigation station Baker was a radio operations base in operation from September 1944 to July 1946.
The aircraft were modified for the role by removing the Terrain Following Radar (and its thimble radome) and adding the LORAN C radio navigation aid.
Decca was a hyperbolic low frequency radio navigation system (also known as multilateration ) that was first deployed during World War II when the Allied forces needed a system which could be used to achieve accurate landings.
Instead, radio navigation systems adopted the multilateration concept. which is based on the difference in times (or phase) instead of the absolute time.
More accurate radio navigation can be made using pulse timing or phase comparison techniques, which rely on the time-of-flight of the signals.
Since there is not much bandwidth in this range of the radio spectrum, only the very simplest signals can be transmitted, such as for radio navigation.