Consolan
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Consolan
[′kän‚sō‚lan] (navigation)
A long-range directional navigation system that transmits a slowly rotating keyed radio field pattern; an American version of the German Sonne and British Consol, using two radiators instead of three to minimize night-effect errors.
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