"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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There's no point in asking an aircraft to reset a transponder that hasn't
been turned on. An aircraft that is instructed to recycle the transponder
is usually one that has previously supplied a good beacon target. When an
aircraft departs and no beacon target is seen where one should be seen the
instruction is usually "verify you're squawking NNNN".

A few years ago I got a call from tower after departure to check my
transponder. I don't remember his exact wording to me was to recycle or just
to turn it on, but I replied that I was slash x-ray and never heard from him
again...

-Greg B.
Still /X