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477:, working at the Admiralty Signal Establishment. As ships were equipped, a complex measurement series was carried out to determine these effects, and cards were supplied to the operators to show the required corrections at various frequencies. By 1942, the availability of cathode ray tubes improved and was no longer a limit on the number of huff-duff sets that could be produced. At the same time, improved sets were introduced that included continuously motor-driven tuning, to scan the likely frequencies and sound an automatic alarm when any transmissions were detected. Operators could then rapidly fine-tune the signal before it disappeared. These sets were installed on convoy escorts, enabling them to get fixes on U-boats transmitting from over the horizon, beyond the range of radar. This allowed hunter-killer ships and aircraft to be dispatched at high speed in the direction of the U-boat, which could be located by radar if still on the surface or ASDIC if submerged. 532:
distance from the loops about 1/2 of a wavelength away. When this signal was mixed in, the opposite-phase signal from this aerial would strongly suppress the signal when the phase is in the direction of the sense aerial. This signal was sent into the brightness channel, or Z-axis, of the oscilloscope, causing the display to disappear when the signals were out of phase. By connecting the sense aerial to one of the loops, say the north/south channel, the display would be strongly suppressed when it was on the lower half of the display, indicating that the signal is somewhere to the north. At this point the only possible bearing is the north-east one.
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up the antenna in 1919 but had been neglecting it in favour of smaller designs. These were found to have very poor performance due to the electrical characteristics of the Slough area, which made it difficult to determine if a signal was being received on a straight line or down from the sky. Smith-Rose and Barfield turned their attention back to the Adcock antenna, which had no horizontal component and thus filtered out the "skywaves". In a series of follow-up experiments they were able to accurately determine the location of transmitters around the country.
215:. Their system motorized the search coil as well as a circular display card, which rotated in sync. A lamp on the display card was tied to the output of the goniometer, and flashed whenever it was in the right direction. When spinning quickly, about 120 RPM, the flashes merged into a single (wandering) dot that indicated the direction. The team destroyed all of their work in the French office and left France in 1940, just before Germany invaded, and continued the development in the US. 387: 31: 528:, depending on the relative phases. The curve is rotated so that its major axis lies along the bearing of the signal. In the case of a signal to the north-east, the result would be an ellipse lying along the 45/225-degree line on the display. Since the phase is changing while the display is drawing, the resulting displayed shape includes "blurring" that needed to be accounted for. 448:(for security) and transmitted quickly. An experienced radio operator might take about 20 seconds to transmit a typical message. Had the UK been using B-T systems, the only system known to the Germans at the time, determining the location of such a transmission would have required considerable luck. With huff-duff, these messages were more than long enough to easily measure. 276:(NPL) Radio Section research site. Watt was involved in the Atmospherics branch, making basic studies in the propagation of radio signals through the atmosphere, while the NPL were involved in field strength measurements in the field and direction finding investigations. NPL had two devices used in these studies that would prove critical to the development of huff-duff, an 300:. Working with Jock Herd, in 1926 Watt added an amplifier to each to the two arms of the antenna, and sent those signals into the X and Y channels of the oscilloscope. As hoped, the radio signal produced a pattern on the screen that indicated the direction of the strike, and the slow-decay phosphor gave the operator ample time to measure it before the display faded. 452:
accuracy was relatively inefficient, so the fixes were not particularly accurate. In 1944 a new strategy was developed by Naval Intelligence where localized groups of five shore-based DF stations were built so the bearings from each of the five stations could be averaged to gain a more reliable bearing. Four such groups were set up in Britain: at
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move up and down, so rapidly that it would appear to be a straight vertical line, extending equal distances from the center of the display. When the second channel is added, tuned to the same signal, the dot will move in both the X and Y directions at the same time, causing the line to become diagonal. However, the radio signal has a finite
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The Adcock antenna is an arrangement of four monopole masts connected electrically to act as two virtual loop antennas arranged at right angles. By comparing the signals received on the two virtual loops, the direction to the signal can be determined using existing RDF techniques. Researchers had set
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For shipboard systems, the ship's superstructure presented a serious cause of interference, especially in phase, as the signals moved around the various metal obstructions. To address this, the ship was anchored while a second ship broadcast a test signal from about one mile away, and the resulting
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systems with the promise that CRT versions would replace them as soon as possible. This could be accomplished in the field, simply by connecting the existing antennas to a new receiver set. By 1940 these were in place at all 29 Fighter Command "sectors", and were a major part of the system that won
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The signals received by the antennas are very small and at high frequency, so they are first individually amplified in two identical radio receivers. This requires the two receivers to be extremely well balanced so that one does not amplify more than the other and thereby change the output signal.
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The deflection of the spot on the oscilloscope display is a direct indication of the instantaneous phase and strength of the radio signal. Since radio signals consist of waves, the signal varies in phase at a very rapid rate. If one considers the signal received on one channel, say Y, the dot will
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The expedient solution to this was the use of huff-duff stations to tune in on the fighter's radios. Every Sector Control, in charge of a selection of fighter squadrons, was equipped with a huff-duff receiver, along with two other sub-stations located at distant points, about 30 miles (48 km)
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Naval units, notably the common HF4 set, included a rotating plastic plate with a line, the "cursor", used to help measure the angle. This could be difficult if the tips of the ellipse did not reach the edge of the display, or went off it. By aligning the cursor with the peaks at either end, this
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in Cornwall. It was intended that other groups would be set up in Iceland, Nova Scotia and Jamaica. Simple averaging was found to be ineffective, and statistical methods were later used. Operators were also asked to grade the reliability of their readings so that poor and variable ones were given
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In 1907 an improvement was introduced by Ettore Bellini and Alessandro Tosi that greatly simplified the DF system in some setups. The single loop antenna was replaced by two antennas, arranged at right angles. The output of each was sent to its own looped wire, or as they are referred to in this
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This leaves the problem of determining whether the signal is north-east or south-west, as the ellipse is equally long on both sides of the display centre-point. To solve this problem a separate aerial, the "sense aerial", was added to this mix. This was an omnidirectional aerial located a fixed
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Watt and Herd wrote an extensive paper on the system in 1926, referring to it as "an instantaneous direct-reading radiogoniometer" and stating that it could be used to determine the direction of signals lasting as little as 0.001 seconds. The paper describes the device in depth, and goes on to
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Early DF systems used a loop antenna that could be mechanically rotated. The operator would tune in a known radio station and then rotate the antenna until the signal disappeared. This meant that the antenna was now at right angles to the broadcaster, although it could be on either side of the
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signals were recorded on a calibration sheet. The broadcast ship would then move to another location and the calibration would be repeated. The calibration was different for different wavelengths as well as directions; building a complete set of sheets for each ship required significant work.
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At first, the UK's detection system consisted of a number of shore stations in the British Isles and North Atlantic, which would coordinate their interceptions to determine locations. The distances involved in locating U-boats in the Atlantic from shore-based DF stations were so great, and DF
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explain how it could be used to improve radio direction finding and navigation. Despite this public demonstration, and films showing it being used to locate lightning, the concept apparently remained unknown outside the UK. This allowed it to be developed into practical form in secret.
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For instance, if the amplifier on the north/south antenna has slightly more gain, the dot will not move along the 45 degree line, but perhaps the 30 degree line. To balance the two amplifiers, most set-ups included a "test loop" which generated a known directional test signal.
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Land-based systems were used because there were severe technical problems operating on ships, mainly due to the effects of the superstructure on the wavefront of arriving radio signals. These problems were overcome under the technical leadership of the Polish engineer
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All of these devices took time to operate. Normally the radio operator would first use conventional radio tuners to find the signal in question, either using the DF antenna(s) or on a separate non-directional antenna. Once tuned, the operator rotated the antennas or
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their location, and then relay that information to the control rooms. Comparing the positions of the enemy reported by the Observer Corps and the fighters from the huff-duff systems, the Sector Commanders could easily direct the fighters to intercept the enemy.
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and their land-based headquarters. HF/DF was primarily used to catch enemy radios while they transmitted, although it was also used to locate friendly aircraft as a navigation aid. The basic technique remains in use as one of the fundamental disciplines of
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and listened for peaks or nulls in the signal to determine the bearing to the transmitter. This took considerable time, on the order of a minute or more. Radio operators could avoid being located by keeping their messages short. In HF/DF systems, a set of
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The basic concept of the huff-duff system is to send the signal from two aerials into the X and Y channels of an oscilloscope. Normally the Y channel would represent north/south for ground stations, or in the case of the ship, be aligned with the ship's
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looking for peaks or nulls in the signal. Although the rough location could be found by spinning the control rapidly, for more accurate measurements the operator had to "hunt" with increasingly small movements. With periodic signals like
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It was Watt's continuing desire to capture the location of individual lightning strikes that led to the final major developments in the basic huff-duff system. The lab had recently taken delivery of a WE-224 oscilloscope from
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knew that radio direction finders could be used to locate its ships at sea when those ships transmitted messages. Consequently, they developed a system that turned routine messages into short-length messages. The resulting
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of interception control, while ground-based units were also widely used to collect information for the Admiralty to locate U-boats. Between 1942 and 1944, smaller units became widely available and were common fixtures on
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before they vanished. All that could be determined was an average location that produced the best signal over a long period, incorporating the signal of many strikes. In 1916 Watt proposed that a
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Huff-duff aerial (enlarged) on a Pakistani frigate. The two (square) antenna loops are formed by the diagonal rods at the top of the structure with the rods below for reinforcement purposes only.
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and provide useful long-range warning for pilots and ships. In some experiments he was able to detect thunderstorms over Africa, 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) away.
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not longer than 454 milliseconds, too short to be located, or intercepted for decryption, but the system had not become operational by the end of the war.
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became simple. Hash marks on either side of the cursor allowed measurement of the width of the display, and use that to determine the amount of blurring.
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system, a "field coil". Two such coils, one for each antenna, are arranged close together at right angles. The signals from the two antennas generated a
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received the signal in slightly different locations or angles, and then used the resulting slight differences in the signal to display the bearing on an
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antenna. By taking several such measurements, or using some other form of navigational information to eliminate one of the ambiguous directions, the
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display. This process was essentially instantaneous, allowing it to catch even the shortest signals, such as from the U-boat fleet.
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less weight than those that appeared stable and well-defined. Several of these DF groups continued into the 1970s as part of the
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Some work on automating the B-T system was carried out just prior to the opening of World War II, especially by French engineers
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The lightning strikes lasted such a short time that traditional RDF systems using loop antennas could not determine the
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of air control relied on ground direction, some solution to locating their own fighters was needed.
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emits radio signals. The signal is spread across many frequencies but is particularly strong in the
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spectrum, which was one of the primary radio frequencies for long-range naval communications.
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away. These stations would listen for broadcasts from the fighters, compare the angles to
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ships. It is estimated HF/DF contributed to 24% of all U-boats sunk during the war.
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had demonstrated that measurements of these radio signals could be used to track
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fore/aft. The X channel thereby represents either east/west, or port/starboard.
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The basic concept is also known by several alternate names, including
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in the space between the coils, which was picked up by a rotating
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Index

Huff-duff

HMS Belfast
radio direction finder
World War II
High frequency
U-boats
signals intelligence
loop antenna
solenoid
antennas
oscilloscope
Robert Watson-Watt
lightning
RAF Fighter Command
Dowding system
Royal Navy
Radio direction finding
World War I
loop antenna
bearing
magnetic field
solenoid
Bellini–Tosi direction finder
goniometer
Morse code
Maurice Deloraine
Henri Busignies
ITT Corporation
lightning

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