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The SPOT 2 Personal Tracker raised the safety factor for millions who took to the outdoors each year. SPOT notifies friends, family or an international rescue coordination center with your GPS location and status based on situation and need - all with the push of a button.
100% - works beyond cellular coverage - Rugged, simple to use
PLEASE NOTE: Spot Personal Tracker is a subscription based service and will not operate without this subscription. You can add the SPOT Basic Annual Subscription here. Once you have set up your SPOT Basic Subscription you can add Additional SPOT Services such as SPOT Online Tracking and SPOT GEOS Members Rescue.
New Features / Enhancements:
• Advanced GPS
• GPS acquisition light
• Custom message button
• Enhanced antenna performance
• Dedicated tracking button
• Improved tracking performance
• Safety covers over S.O.S. and Help buttons
• Replaceable button covers
• Illuminated buttons
• Message sent indicator light
• Includes armband case
• Recyclable packaging
• 30% Smaller
• 30% Lighter
Power: To turn SPOT on simply press and hold the ON/OFF button until the button blinks green. SPOT performs a self-diagnostic test. When power is ON, the button will blink green every 3 seconds. This is helpful for making SPOT more visible in the dark. To turn SPOT off, press and hold the ON/OFF button until the light stops blinking.
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SPOT Self Test: SPOT performs a self-test when you initially turn on your SPOT. If all visible lights flash red, the SPOT self-test has found a failure, and SPOT will not send a message. If the On/Off light, GPS light and Message Sending light all blink red, SPOT has a GPS failure, but SPOT may still be able to transmit an SOS or HELP message without your GPS location.
Visit www.spotwarranty.com.
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SPOT Message Schedule: SPOT is designed to provide outstanding quality and reliability. With a perfect view of the entire sky, the SPOT Messenger is designed to transmit virtually every message. In everyday conditions, the view of the sky is often blocked due to hills, buildings, or other obstructions so it is normal for some messages to be blocked. That is why the SPOT Messenger automatically sends multiple messages in every mode, giving you excellent overall reliability. In some modes this means multiple attempts to send the same message, while in other modes it means regularly updating GPS coordinates and sending a new message. Placement of your SPOT unit can make a difference. Experiment with placement until you are familiar with the reliability of your operating environment.
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GPS Location Acquisition: If you have the SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker, your device needs to download the GPS almanac in order to obtain your GPS location. Due to the nature of the GPS system, you will need to get a GPS fix the first time you use your unit, after more than two weeks, anytime you change your batteries and anytime you travel more than 600 miles. It is strongly recommended that you do this at the start of each usage session. It can take up to 20 minutes to obtain a GPS fix. The easy way to accomplish this is to turn your SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger ‘ON’, wait 2 seconds, and then press ‘OK’ and wait until the LED above the ‘OK’ button goes out – this allows the unit time to acquire the GPS fix. While unlikely, it is possible that a GPS fix won’t be acquired if you only use other functions (Track Progress, HELP and SOS/911) due to the transmission burst cycle.
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SOS / 911: 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 – for example contacting 9-1-1 responders in North America and 1-1-2 responders in Europe.
HOW IT WORKS:
Once activated, SPOT will acquire its GPS location 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 the GPS location – to GEOS, which will still notify your contacts of the signal and continue to monitor the network for further messages.
9-1-1 EMERGENCY SERVICES POWERED BY GEOS Search and Rescue
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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 the GPS location – to your personal contacts.
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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.
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Custom Message: This feature allows you to let your friends and family know 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.
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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.
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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.
TIPS FOR USING TRACKING:
To engage tracking – Turn the unit on, wait two seconds. Press and hold the OK button down UNTIL the green light goes out and the two lights (ON/Off and Check/OK) blink together.
Positioning – To ensure tracking reliability it is recommended to place SPOT in a horizontal position with the SPOT logo facing the sky.
It is possible that some Track messages may get blocked by environmental factors. Track Progress messages are scheduled every 10 minutes to ensure overall performance.
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| GPS Satellites |
21 ft (6.4 m) location accuracy |
| LEO Satellites |
1610-1620 MHz L-band frequency |
| Satellite Speed |
17,000 MPH
114 min. to circle earth |
| Distance |
876 miles (1414 km) above Earth
Altitude (twenty times closer than fi xed satellites)
Requires less power:
· Less power usage allows more frequent updates
· Less power usage allows other value-added uses |
| Visibility |
1 to 4 at any one time
More satellites for SOS detection than anyone
More satellites means signal can be detected sooner |
| Angle of Detection |
Constantly changing, helps in dense coverage |
| Beam Coverage |
Overlaps, increased detection probability |
| Movement |
Constantly, 8 planes 52° inclination |
| Communication |
If no GPS fi x, SPOT sends distress signal without GPS position
to emergency response center |
| LEDs |
On/Off Check-in / OK
Message Track
SOS Help
GPS Acquired Message Sent |
| Export Data |
CSV (spreadsheet), KML (Google Earth™), GPX (GPS data)
SPOT Adventures.com |
| Certifications |
FCC, IC, WEEE, SAR, RoHS, CE |
| Additional Specs |
-Size: 3.7” x 2.6” x 1.0” (9.4 x 6.6 x 2.5 cm)
-Wt: 5.2 oz (147.4 g)
-GPS Lat. Lon. datum format: WGS-84 |
| Operating Environment |
Temperature: -22°F to +140°F (-30°C to +60°C)
Altitude: -328 ft to 21,325 ft (-100 m to +6500 m)
Humidity: MIL-STD 810E Method 509.3, 5% NaCl, 95% distilled water
Vibration: Per SAE J1455, Random, 20 Hz to 2000 Hz, 0.04g_/Hz
Waterproof: Up to a depth of 1 meter for up to 30 minutes |
Battery:
When utilizing 3 fully charged AAA Energizer® Ultimate Lithium 8x batteries (L92),
you can anticipate the following battery life in the specifi ed operating environments:
| MODE |
100% CLEAR VIEW OF SKY |
50% CLEAR VIEW OF THE SKY
50% OBSTRUCTED |
| Power On |
~ 3 months |
~ 3 months |
| SOS (or Help/SPOT Assist if reactivated) |
~ 6 days |
~ 3 days |
| Track Progress |
~ 7 days |
~ 3 1/2 days |
| Check-In / Custom Message |
~ 700 messages |
~ 350 messages |
| Stored |
Several years with properly installed AAA Energizer®
Ultimate Lithium 8x batteries (L92) |
Several years with properly installed AAA Energizer®
Ultimate Lithium 8x batteries (L92) |
SPOT performance and battery life may be degraded in operating environments where the
SPOT GPS chip must take a longer time to acquire your GPS location, such as trying to
send a message indoors or under extreme canopies. Colder conditions can impact battery
life. Under normal usage a full battery charge should meet or exceed these amounts.
- Spot 2 Tracker
- Arm band
- Replaceable Button Covers (one set included)
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