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Uncommon card · Science
Direction finding, an Uncommon card
Direction finding, radio direction finding, or radiogoniometry is the use of radio waves to determine the direction to a radio source.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 35,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Direction finding quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Direction finding card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
By triangulation, the ______ of a radio source can be determined by measuring its direction from two or more locations.
Answer
location. By triangulation, the location of a radio source can be determined by measuring its direction from two or more locations. From the Direction finding article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Medical tourism. Medical tourism 84 · Direction finding 81 · Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo 77 · Bruno Bauer 72 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The source may be a cooperating radio transmitter or may be an inadvertent source, a naturally occurring radio source, or an illicit or enemy system.
- Radio direction finding differs from radar in that only the direction is determined by any one receiver, a radar system usually also gives a distance to the object of interest, as well as direction.
- By triangulation, the location of a radio source can be determined by measuring its direction from two or more locations.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Direction finding article was read about 35,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Direction finding
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Direction finding (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Иван, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
