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I plan to add more information on single channel direction finding in the coming months when I get some nice graphics that aren't copyrighted. I will also add some mathematical background & equations as soon as I am confident I can get them to show up nicely (I'm fairly new to this). If there are any issues with what I have added, feel free to remove them but please tell me why. --Negative3 05:58, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I agree that this article should be merged with Radio Direction Finding. RDF should be the proper name of the article. Jakro64 07:06, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Information on sources of error in RDF, common patterns of error, and degree of/type of error associated with particular situations would be a useful addition to this page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.132.190.26 (talk) 16:27, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

I added a reference (Appleyard 1988) with information about marine DF accuracy. I also believe that this article and Radio Direction Finding should be merged.sv1xv 2008-01-06.

Today all such systems are being generally removed in favour of the GPS system: I added a request for citations, as NDBs are gradually replaced with VORs, not with the GPS system. Sv1xv (talk) 04:32, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I removed this phrase:

Today all such systems are being generally removed in favour of the GPS system.

and copied it here, as there is no reference or evidence supporting it.

[edit] Aviation Portal assessment

There are four related articles on the subject:

Non-directional beacon with a detailed description of NDB navigation
Direction finding
Radio direction finder
Electric beacon

I propose that further content development and improvement about NDBs goes in the fist article and the other three give a brief description and refer the reader to the first one.

Sv1xv (talk) 07:21, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] External links & Further reading

I removed the following two external links for the reasons stated:

Radio Direction Finding Equipment & Systems (Morcom): The link is dead.

http://www.ewgenesis.com: it is a purely commercial site.

I also removed the following link, as it is not directly relevant:

The role of active millimetre wave radar using Direction Finding. The real title is: The role of active millimetre wave radar in defence surveillance by Dr Duncan A. Wynn.

The folloing link is also part of a commercial site, but contains 13 articles with a lot of useful information and references, so I decided to keep it in the article: