What is "beacons"

Usage examples of "beacons".

My crew are attempting to fix that, but as most of you know ID beacons are sealed systems not intended to be manipulated by the user.

To maintain the beacon and all drone beacons in the assigned patrol area.

From the experience thus gained, we afterwards erected the whole of our extensive system of beacons on the way south.

We built in all 150 beacons, 6 feet high, and used in their construction 9,000 blocks, cut out of the snow with specially large snow-knives.

Besides which, the building of these beacons had other advantages, which we could all see and appreciate.

We could only notice them by the way in which the beacons we put up often disappeared rather rapidly.

During our stay here we decided to build beacons at every fifth kilometre, and to lay down depots at every degree of latitude.

So as not to fall into these on the return, we erected our beacons in such a way that the line between any two of them would take us clear of any danger.

We now recommenced the erection of beacons, which had not been necessary during the ascent.

But with this glacier lying straight across our line of route, and with the numerous beacons we had erected, we reassured ourselves on this score.

The beacons we had put up came to our aid, and for our final success we owe a deep debt of gratitude to our prudence and thoughtfulness in adopting this expedient.

We had determined to mark it not only at right angles to our course -- that is, from east to west -- but by snow beacons at every two geographical miles to the south.

We at once began to put up beacons -- a work which was continued with great regularity right up to the Pole.

The beacons, however, served their purpose so satisfactorily that the tracks were almost superfluous.

Although these beacons were not more than about 3 feet high, they were extremely conspicuous on the Page 70 Amundsen, Ronald - The South Pole, Vol.