PA8W's Radio Direction Finding Technology

Other Amateurs Creations



California: Donald KF6GQ built this VHF doppler using excellent (big!) magmounts and an RDF41 kit:

Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs



New York: Students of the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York succesfully finished their senior project using an RDF41.
They constructed a vessel that automatically homes-in on a 121.5MHz EPIRB emergency transmitter.

Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs


Florida: RDF43 with RDF-Mapper using a preamped array:

Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs
Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs



Walter, DC5SL built this lovely RDF42:

Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs


Gerton, PD0G built this beauty of an RDF41:

Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs
Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs
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Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs

NCI-folkestone is a coastal observation post run entirely by volunteers.

They enhance and support the work of the coastguard using optical instruments and radio equipment.
To do that, they added a V2,3 doppler to their toolbox.
As they don't have a electronic engineer in their crew I built a plug and play RDF for them including the ready to use VHF array.

The array dictates the size of the shipment and luckily the necessary box size was just within the (100x50x50cm) max size permitted to send by international mail.

And here's the RDF in the station's console:

Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs

They claim an accuracy within about 2 degrees which is extremely good for a 4 antenna doppler.

However, a more ideal environment is hard to find, as this is what they see from their observation post:

Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs

The station building is one of the many observation post built for WW2, now adapted for purely peaceful purposes.

It feels good that I was able to help them realize their doppler Radio Direction Finder.
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PA1TG:

Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs


Kristjan from Estonia:

Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs
Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs
Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs
Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs


Jeroen PD0JRN built the following beauty:
Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs
Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs


PA3BNX:

Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs
Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs


And other builds sent in to me:

Radio direction finders built by other radio amateurs









Cheers, PA8W.