Difference between revisions of "Standard wave error"

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The total polarization error produced by a plane wave incident at an angle of elevation of 45 degrees and having equal vertically and horizontally polarized components.

Note: As a criterion of performance the term is not appropriate to direction finders employing elevated antenna systems.

Reference: B.S.

Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)

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