Transponders in a sentence

As Putin faced the biggest threat to his 23-year-reign, two presidential planes reportedly took off from Moscow before switching off their transponders en route to the Tver region, where he has a residence.

Commercial ships are required under international law to keep their identification transponders switched on to prevent collisions and help authorities fight maritime crimes.

For years, ships determined to cowl their whereabouts have resorted to turning off the transponders all monumental vessels use to signal their location.

Motorists without switchable transponders can get one at to save an average of 40% off license plate tolls.

However, it added that there was a “large second-hand market” for commercial aircraft components, including transponders and the company would have no knowledge of the owners of sold-on components, unless they were returned for repair.

Or instead of a transponder you buy a city parking sticker for your car window; one-time purchase of the sticker, an e-pay account like I-Pass tollway transponders that you refill from time to time.

Maryland outreach team is available to provide free“On the Go” transponders and to sign up new customers at events.

Raytheon said that it has installed and maintained IFF transponders and interrogators on more than 120 types of aircraft, ships and land vehicles around the world.

It alerted industries to North Korea's "deceptive shipping practices," which includes falsifying the identity of vessels and disabling transponders that track ships' movements.

The satellite is equipped with S- and C-band transponders.

Aircraft carry transponders that transmit codes on reception of the pulse.

Also, some of the functionality of regenerators has been absorbed by the transponders of wavelength-division multiplexing systems.

Automotive Many modern automobiles have keys with transponders hidden inside the plastic head of the key.

Communication payload The second major module is the communication payload, which is made up of transponders.

It was designed to provide coverage to many parts of Africa, and the Ka-band transponders would also cover Italy.

Karts equipped with transponders are sent out onto the track in groups of 5 or less to try to achieve the fastest lap time.

Modern lighthouses often have unique reflectors or Racon transponders so the radar signature of the light is also unique.

Motorsport Transponders are used in motorsport for lap timing purposes.

Satcom 1 was widely used because it had twice the communications capacity of the competing Westar 1 in America (24 transponders as opposed to the 12 of Westar 1), resulting in lower transponder-usage costs.

The bandwidth available from a satellite depends upon the number of transponders provided by the satellite.