NOUN
- a characteristic signal emitted by a transmitter used for navigation
- a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes
How To Use radio beacon In A Sentence
- Following the crash the airliner's emergency radio beacon failed to function and rescue teams experienced difficulties locating the wreckage.
- Then the pilots apparently selected a heading toward another radio beacon near the threshold of runway 19.
- Elstree has no instrument landing system, radar or directional radio beacons. Times, Sunday Times
- The airport has no radar nor instrument landing system and planes are guided in by radio beacon.
- Elstree has no instrument landing system, radar or directional radio beacons. Times, Sunday Times
- Following the crash the airliner's emergency radio beacon failed to function and rescue teams experienced difficulties locating the wreckage.
- Similar technology is used to track down lost aircraft and yachts through their radio beacons.
- Elstree has no instrument landing system, radar or directional radio beacons. Times, Sunday Times
- Then the pilots apparently selected a heading toward another radio beacon near the threshold of runway 19.
- The boat also managed to use its emergency position indicator radio beacon.
