[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 33CFR62.53]



[Page 151-152]

 

                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



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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.