The invention relates to the field of short-wave multi-station positioning technologies, and discloses a short-wave multi-station direct positioning method in the presence of a correction source. Themethod comprises the steps that a number of short-wave correction sources with known positions are placed in the vicinity of a short-wave target source, and a uniform circular array in a number of observation stations is used to receive short-wave signal data; the relationship between the azimuth and elevation for the a signal to arrive at different observation stations and latitude and longitudethereof and virtual height parameters of an ionized layer is determined; the maximum likelihood criterion is used to construct and jointly estimate the cost functions of latitude and longitude of thetarget source, virtual height parameters of the ionized layer and the amplitude and phase errors of multiple arrays; and finally, an alternating iterative algorithm is used to jointly estimate the latitude and longitude of the target source, the virtual height of the ionized layer and the amplitude and phase errors of multiple arrays, so as to determine the position information of a target. Due tothe correction source, the method proposed by the invention can effectively suppress the influence of the amplitude and phase errors of arrays on the positioning accuracy of short-wave multiple stations.