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A transponder beacon designed to give an indication on the radar screen of both bearing and distance, its characteristic paint usually beginning at and extending outward from a point a few hundred yards beyond the echo of the object on which it is mounted.
Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)
