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In RDF navigation the more "fixes" one has the smaller the
ccccircle of confussion. For a variety of reasons, measurement erros, propagation anolomies etc, the bearing is seldom perfect. These imperfections create a difussed "circle" that the calculated powiton lies witihin. Moer sighting/bearings gives smaller errors, but using home built equipment one shouldn't expect world class accuracy. As a basic check pick a non NDB,make your measurements, being carefuyll to note the GPS reading for each, and see how close you come to hitting the transmitters location. I su pect that yoru antenna will be far from accuarte with some imbalance. that will be hard to quantify exactly. As a fun project, that will teach you a lot about navigation go for it, but as a serious attempt I suspect you will be dispointed. Even at NDB low fRF frequencies, there are too many things that will cause transmission path errors. I live about 15 miles from the Lexington Blue Grass Fild NDB and even with a barrowed mil grade RDF setup it's apparent bearing changed by several degrees the month I had the unit. The NDB in Frankfort and Mt. Steerling "wondered" all over the place. with sudden randon sshifts up up to +/- 5 degrees. The pilot who loaned me the unit told me that the closer to the earths surface you got with a LF RDF the more error you pikced up. At 5000' the error was very small. This was 25 years ago and I suepct not much has changed. This was an aircraft RDF and at that time still was within the calibration cycle. Good luck and have fun. Terry |
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