[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR62.53]

[Page 150]
 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
 
PART 62--UNITED STATES AIDS TO NAVIGATION SYSTEM--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart B--The U.S. Aids to Navigation System
 
Sec. 62.53  Racons.

    (a) Aids to navigation may be enhanced by the use of radar beacons 
(racons). Racons, when triggered by a radar signal, will transmit a 
coded reply to the interrogating radar. This reply serves to identify 
the aid station by exhibiting a series of dots and dashes which appear 
on the radar display in a line emanating radially from just beyond the 
echo of the aid station. Although racons may be used on both laterally 
significant and non-laterally significant aids alike, the racon signal 
itself is for identification purposes only, and therefore carries no 
lateral significance.
    (b) Racons are also used as bridge marks to mark the best point of 
passage.