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To address this issue, this paper proposes a passive amplitude-phase self-calibration method for a wide-beam HFSWR system with a nonlinear array. This method utilizes the aggregation of the amplitude ratio among array elements to screen reception matrices of single DOA sources. Based on the differences in reception matrices, the amplitude error is calibrated. Moreover, the cost function is calculated using the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm, and the initial phase error is first obtained after triangular array dimensionality reduction. Then, the phase error is further calibrated through quadratic-form iterative optimization. This method has been validated through simulations and real measurements. An approximately 4-day dataset obtained via HFSWR is reanalyzed in this paper. After data calibration, the radar-estimated currents were in good agreement with the buoy-measured results, with a root mean square error (RMSE) as low as 0.06 m\/s and a correlation coefficient (CC) of up to 0.88. 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