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The RET experiment aims to utilise radar techniques to spot ultrahigh energy neutrinos. This is achieved by targeting ionisation trails left in the wake of in-ice neutrino-induced cascades: in an ice volume illuminated with a radar system, the trail will reflect incident radio waves, allowing the neutrino to be detected via surrounding receivers. The reflected radio forms an echo signal, from which information on the cascade and progenitor neutrino can be obtained, given a detailed understanding of the signal properties. To this end, radar signals from neutrino-induced particle cascades have been investigated with the semi-analytic MARES simulation code. In this work, we utilise an ideal detector setup to explore geometry-dependent features of the signal for the full angular phase space. We discuss properties of the resulting signals in the time and frequency domains, obtaining global descriptions of the features which can be applied to help inform future reconstruction methods and detector design.