How to Use radio beacon in a Sentence

radio beacon

noun
  • 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, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
  • This panel would detach just before a water landing and activate a radio beacon.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 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
  • The Bonhomme William — which had been cleared of its radio beacon and contaminating liquids — then sank in the darkness.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 26 July 2024
  • 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 told the captain to put on a life jacket and stay with the boat’s radio beacon, which indicates someone’s position in an emergency.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2024
  • 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 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
  • Titan lacked an emergency radio beacon or a dedicated recovery system.
    — Alex Christian, WIRED, 29 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Vessels are now required to report their routes and locations via the Australian Ship Reporting System; all lifeboats must also be equipped with radio beacons.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 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 submersible used a rudimentary system that basically communicated with the surface ship through text message, and likely lacked an emergency radio beacon that could have floated to the surface and started beeping if there was an emergency.
    — oregonlive, 22 June 2023
  • They became stranded with only texting capabilities and an emergency position indicating radio beacon, officials said.
    — Fox News, 11 May 2022
  • 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
  • Astronomers have discovered a new celestial object, a compact radio beacon located in the galaxy NGS 4945, about 12 million light-years away.
    — New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Beginning in the 1970s, for example, the Soviet Union deployed over 1,000 RTGs in northwestern Russia to power its uncrewed lighthouses, radio beacons, and weather stations.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2025

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