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    direction finding, usually known by its abbreviation HF/DF or nickname huff-duff, is a type of radio direction finder (RDF) introduced in World War II...
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  • was picked up by ground-based high-frequency direction finding (HFDF, "huff-duff") receivers. Using three HFDF measurements, observers could determine...
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    II's Battle of the Atlantic. It is estimated that the UK's advanced "huff-duff" systems were directly or indirectly responsible for 24% of all U-boats...
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    Duff's television fanbase could be migrated to film." Following her success from Lizzie McGuire, Richard Huff of the New York Daily News called Duff "a...
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  • Look up huff in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Huff or huffing may refer to: Huff (surname), a list of people with the surname Huff Township, Spencer...
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    or "huff-duff"). Although well publicized at the time, the system's enormous military potential was not developed until the late 1930s. Huff-duff allowed...
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    reason for this successful Axis period was the British lack of radar and huff-duff equipped ships which meant that the U-boats were very hard to detect when...
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    read the U-boat Enigma traffic. But high-frequency direction finding ("huff-duff") was still able to detect U-boats by analysis of radio transmissions...
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  • 490 MHz (to jam the Germans' FuG 202 and 212 AI radars) and 530–600Mhz. Huff-Duff – Allied HF/DF High Frequency Direction Finding. Identification Friend...
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    identification, Dowding pressed for a supply of high-frequency direction finding (huff-duff) sets, which could locate the fighters using signals broadcast from their...
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