The city's name came from signal fires that were atop nearby Mount Beacon. Each life raft is equipped with an external, automatically actuated light beacon and internal lighting. It uses a VOR navigational beacon with the identifier "BIG". This is caused by the phase output of the transmitting beacon. Tuvok beams across to Seven's shuttle, where she explains she's following a homing beacon. Real-time propagation can be assessed by listening for transmissions from specific beacon transmitters. He returns to his seat and activates the rescue beacon. A sharp minimum indicates the direction of the RDF beacon. Every transmission must end before the arrival of the second beacon. The area allowed cultivation based on rivers running down from Beacon Hill. Buckethead wrote a song entitled "The Homing Beacon", inspired by Jackson's film "Captain EO". CBP has already saved dozens of people based entirely on beacon alerts. Seeger lived in Beacon, New York. This allows a computer algorithm to trilaterate the position of the beacon. The trio stopped near the Beacon and Main Street fork.