radio position finding meaning

• [Engineering]
  Process of locating a radio transmitter by plotting the intersection of its azimuth as determined by two or more radio direction finders.

• radioacoustic position finding:    [Engineering]See r ...
• radio direction finding:    [Defence] (*) Radi ...
• radio range finding:    [Defence] (*) Radi ...

Examples

1. In 1936, the SCL started research in Radio Position Finding ( RPF  later called radar ).
2. Development then started on the Army s first system for Radio Position Finding ( RPF )-- the name  radar did not come into existence until 1940.
3. The name was soon adopted by the U . S . Army, replacing Radio Position Finding ( RPF ), and by the British, replacing Radio Detection and Finding ( RDF ).
4. By 1938, this had evolved into the Army's first Radio Position Finding ( RPF ) set, designated " SCR-268 ", Signal Corps Radio, to disguise the technology.
5. In Jennet Conant's coming book, " Tuxedo Park, " about a social setting in which key scientists worked during World War II, the origin of radar is recounted : U . S . Army scientists used R . P . F ., for " radio position finding, " while the British preferred R . D . F ., for " radio direction finding ."