The SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger provides a vital line of communication with friends and family when you want it, and emergency assistance when you need it. Using 100% satellite technology, SPOT works virtually anywhere in the world, even where cell phones don’t – all with the push of a button.

	SOS Use this function In the event of a life threatening or other critical emergency to notify emergency services of your GPS location and that you need assistance. The GEOS International Emergency Response Center alerts the appropriate agencies worldwide. HOW IT WORKS Once activated, SPOT will acquire its exact coordinates from the GPS network, and send that location along with a distress message to the GEOS International Emergency Response Center every five minutes until cancelled or until the batteries are depleted. The Emergency Response Center notifies the appropriate emergency responders based on your GPS location and personal information – which may include local police, highway patrol, the Coast Guard, our country’s embassy or consulate, or other emergency search and rescue teams – as well as notifying your emergency contacts about the receipt of a distress signal. IMPORTANT NOTE Even if SPOT cannot acquire its location from the GPS network it will still attempt to send a distress signal – without exact location – to GEOS, which will still notify your contacts of the signal and continue to monitor the network for further messages.
	Help In the event of a non-life threatening emergency, you can use this function to notify your personal contacts that you need assistance. Additional SPOT Assist services can be purchased and programmed to your Help button as well. When activated with SPOT Assist, the Help button will notify professional services either on the land or water. SPOT has partnered with national service providers to offer non-life threatening assistance.  HOW  IT WORKS Once activated, SPOT acquires your location from the GPS network and routes it along with the HELP message through the SPOT satellite network every five minutes for one hour or until cancelled. Your contacts will receive an SMS text message including coordinates, or an email with a link to Google Maps™ showing your location. IMPORTANT NOTE  Even if SPOT cannot acquire its location from the GPS network it will still attempt to send a HELP message – without exact location – to your personal contacts.
	Check-in/OK This feature allows you to let your friends and family know that all is OK with a pre-programmed message along with your GPS location. With a push of a button a message is sent via email or SMS to up to 10 pre-determined contacts and your waypoint is stored in your SPOT account for later reference. Your stored waypoints can be easily integrated into a SPOT Shared Page or SPOT Adventure account.  HOW  IT WORKS Once you have activated your SPOT Messenger and set up your account, you can change your contacts and customize your message at any time. When you push the Check-in/OK button, you send one pre-programmed message to your contacts. Your contacts will receive an SMS text message including coordinates, or an email with a link to Google Maps™ showing your location.
	Custom Message This feature allows you to let your friends and family now receive a custom message along with your GPS location with a push of a button. Use this feature as a secondary OK message or transfer your personal help alert to this message function if you are using a SPOT Assist service on your Help button. The Custom Message functions exactly like your Check-in/OK message You can also have access to your waypoints in your SPOT account so you can review your route at a later date. Or link your SPOT account to SPOT Adventures and save a map of your adventures using your SPOT waypoints, and enhance the story with photos and a blog. HOW  IT WORKS  Once you have activated your SPOT Messenger and set up your account, you can change your contacts and customize your message at any time. When you push the Check-in/OK button, you send one pre-programmed message to your contacts. Your contacts will receive an SMS text message including coordinates, or an email with a link to Google Maps™ showing your location.
	Track Progress This feature allows you to send and save your location and allow contacts to track your progress in near real time using Google Maps. With your SPOT account you have the ability to set up a SPOT Shared Page which allows you to show your SPOT GPS locations to others on a Google Map. HOW  IT WORKS Once activated, SPOT acquires and sends your GPS coordinates to your SPOT account automatically every 10 minutes for 24 hours or until canceled. SPOT tracking must be reengaged to continue. Creating a SPOT Shared Page allows you to share your GPS route with your friends and family easily in near real time on the web through a personal link. You can make your Shared Page private or public. Your choice! Just share that url with your friends and family and they can easily track your adventures. You can also link your SPOT Messenger to SPOT Adventures, a social portal, where you can set up a profile and blog with others sharing their SPOT adventures.

• GPS satellites provide signals
  
• SPOT messenger's onboard GPS chip determines your GPS location and sends your location and preselected message to communication satellites
• Communication satellites relay your message to specific satellite antennas around the world
• Satellite antennas and a global network route your location and message to the appropriate network
• Your location and messages are delivered according to your instructions via email, text message, or emergency notification to the GEOS Rescue Coordination Center

Coverage
SPOT works around the world, including virtually all of North America, Europe and Australia, portions of South America, Northern Africa and Northeastern Asia, and hundreds or thousands of miles offshore of these areas.

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Specifications

Small and Light
Size: 94 mm x 66 mm x 25 mm
Approximate Weight: 147 grams

Battery Life
Includes 3 AAA Energizer™ Lithium Ultimate 

• Power on, unused: Approx. 3 months
• SPOTcasting tracking mode: Approx. 7 days
• 9-1-1 mode: Up to 6 consecutive days
• Check in / OK: 700 messages

Limited Warranty
SPOT products come with a 1 year limited warranty provided by Axonn, L.L.C.

What is covered by this limited warranty?
This limited warranty covers defects in materials and workmanship only.

How long does this limited warranty last?
One year from the date of purchase of the product. The warranty period is not extended if we repair or replace a warranted product. We have no responsibility for any warranty claims made after such warranty period expires.

What do I do if I need warranty service?
Before the warranty expires, you must contact Pivotel (the designated warranty centre for Australia and New Zealand) on 1300 882 448 or +61 7 5630 3009. You must provide your contact information, the ESN of the product, the random activation number for the product, the date of purchase, and a brief description of the issue. The Pivotel customer service representative will troubleshoot with you, and advise you if a return is necessary. We will issue you a Return Material Authorisation (RMA) number and send you paperwork which you will need to complete prior to sending the product back.

What will we do?
During the limited warranty period, we will repair any product returned to us that proves to be defective in materials or workmanship. If we are not able to repair the product, we will replace it with a comparable product that is new or refurbished.

If we determine that the problem is not covered under the warranty, we will notify you and inform you of service alternatives that are available to you on a fee basis. Our warranty does not cover any defects or damage to a product resulting from customer misuse of the product or use beyond ordinary ware and tear. Also, our warranty does not cover damages sustained during shipment of the product to us.

EXCEPT AS PROVIDED ABOVE, THE PRODUCT IS SOLD “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES FOR THE PRODUCT WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES REGARDING THE CONDITIONS, DESIGN, SPECIFICATIONS, WORKMANSHIP, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE PRODUCT, OR ANY WARRANTIES THAT THE PRODUCT IS FREE FROM LATENT DEFECTS OR DEFICIENCIES, OR THAT THE PRODUCT IS FREE FROM INFRINGEMENT OF ANY PATENT, TRADEMARK, COPYRIGHT OR PROPRIETARY RIGHT OF ANY THIRD PARTY AND SUCH WARRANTIES ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED.

THIS LIMITED WARRANTY PROVIDES THE SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR ANY DEFECTS IN THE PRODUCT. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE PRODUCT THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF A CLAIM.

THE APPLICABILITY OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY VARY FROM STATE TO STATE.

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