User Manual

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Document Reference Phalcon-NT11, Issue 2 and Date 24/10/18
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Introduction.
This manual provides a brief description of the Transponder and its functions. It also details the initial setup and
installation procedures.
Equipment Description.
The Phalcon-NT Transponder is a marine radar beacon system (RACON) capable of responding to S-band and X-band
pulsed radars in compliance with the ITU recommendations ITU-R M.824-2 ‘Technical Parameters of Radar Beacons’.
The RACON is a receiver/transmitter transponder device used as a navigation aid, identifying landmarks or buoys on
a shipborne marine radar display. The RACON responds to a received radar pulse by transmitting an identifiable mark
back to the radar set. The displayed response has a length on a radar monitor corresponding to a few nautical miles
and is encoded as a Morse character beginning with a dash for identification.