Toran Confocal emitters

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Confocal emitters (in Toran)

Fixed stations generating a hyperbolic pattern. The stations are in no way related or synchronized and transmit unmodulated carriers, the frequencies of which differ by a small amount.




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