Orfordness Beacon and Sonne (navigation)

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Difference between Orfordness Beacon and Sonne (navigation)

Orfordness Beacon vs. Sonne (navigation)

The Orfordness Rotating Wireless Beacon, known simply as the Orfordness Beacon or sometimes the Black Beacon, was an early radio navigation system introduced by the United Kingdom in July 1929. Sonne (German for "sun") was a radio navigation system developed in Germany during World War II.

Beacon

A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.

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Bearing (navigation)

In navigation, bearing or azimuth is the horizontal angle between the direction of an object and north or another object.

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Direction finding

Direction finding (DF), or radio direction finding (RDF), is the use of radio waves to determine the direction to a radio source.

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Geopositioning

Geopositioning is the process of determining or estimating the geographic position of an object.

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Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

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Loop antenna

A loop antenna is a radio antenna consisting of a loop or coil of wire, tubing, or other electrical conductor, that for transmitting is usually fed by a balanced power source or for receiving feeds a balanced load.

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Morse code

Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.

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Position line

A position line or line of position (LOP) is a line (or, on the surface of the Earth, a curve) that can be both identified on a chart (nautical chart or aeronautical chart) and translated to the surface of the Earth.

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Radio navigation

Radio navigation or radionavigation is the application of radio frequencies to determine a position of an object on the Earth, either the vessel or an obstruction.

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Royal Aircraft Establishment

The Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) was a British research establishment, known by several different names during its history, that eventually came under the aegis of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), before finally losing its identity in mergers with other institutions.

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Stopwatch

A stopwatch is a timepiece designed to measure the amount of time that elapses between its activation and deactivation.

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