How to Use radio beacon in a Sentence

radio beacon

noun
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  • Aji said no radio beacon signal had been detected from the 26-year-old plane.
    — Niniek Karmini, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
  • The lunar module was equipped with a radio beacon, a knife and two containers of sun lotion.
    — David Shribman, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • But the radio beacon attached to the probe isn’t sending out its location signal, and there’s no sign of the instrument’s flashing strobe light in the storm.
    — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2012
  • With that in mind, Kraan-Korteweg has a plan to use a type of cosmic radio beacon to map out everything behind the thickest parts of the Zone of Avoidance.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2017
  • An hour into the flight, Maultsby passed a radio beacon at Barter Island on Alaska’s northern coast, his last point of contact for six hours.
    — Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2013
  • The plane also carried Rebecca, a device to detect Eureka radio beacons on the ground.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2019
  • The Coast Guard said that because the boat was equipped with an emergency position-indicating radio beacon, crews were able to quickly locate it.
    — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 27 June 2022
  • The captain did not tell the marine guard before the ferry set off, didn't send a distress message before the vessel broke apart, and didn't activate the radio beacon which would have alerted others to their position.
    — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 9 Oct. 2019
  • This panel would detach just before a water landing and activate a radio beacon.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2019
  • The Coast Guard in Boston was notified by the boat's emergency position indicating radio beacon around 1 a.m., and calls to its satellite phone went unanswered.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Modern technology is of little use—the rock blocks signals from satellites to GPS devices, although radio beacons can sometimes be helpful.
    — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 8 July 2018
  • The annual offering aims to raise money for the Coast Guard’s Aids to Navigation mission, a program that involves installing buoys, radio beacons or fog signals that serve as street signs on waterways.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
  • Before long Henry Ford’s engineers created the first radio beacon system for aircraft navigation.
    — Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Schrader used the experience to highlight the importance of safety equipment, like an emergency position indicating radio beacon that allows boaters to contact first responders.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The Coast Guard received an emergency position-indicating radio beacon notification around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday about a vessel in distress.
    — NBC News, 19 Apr. 2021
  • They became stranded with only texting capabilities and an emergency position indicating radio beacon, officials said.
    — Fox News, 11 May 2022

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